The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-15
GIVES WARNING
ABOUT WORKINGS
OF HUN GUARDS

THE only untrameled, outspoken
anti-German propaganda society oper-,
ating all over our broad land in COM
batting the work of the enemy" is
the way in which Henry c. Quinby,
chairman of the Executive Commit
tee of the American Defense Society
describes the position occupied by the
society in a statement urging all citi-
zens to awake to Americas immin-
ent needs. This organization" he
says, "has been largely influential in
prescribing enemy insurance compan-
les, abolishing the seditious soap box
orator, and in organizing antf-treason
committees in nearly zoo cities and
towns throughout the country
Mr.. Quinby maintains that the war
is being fought by Germany, very
largely through speakers and writer's
amongst their enemies
IF this war should end in an incon-
elusive peace, or a peace in any way
favorable to Germany" he says, cit
will not be the result of their super
| ior fighting ability or of their arms
or material; it will be directly due to
their propaganda in the countries of
the Allies. This war is being fought
| today by Germany largely by speakers
and writer's amongst their enemies
In Russia before the revolution there,
Germany was spending ten million
dollars a month and maintained there
| more than ten thousand individuals
preaching pacifism and pro-German-
ism.
THAT has largely helped in taking
Russia out of the war and releasing
upwards of two million German troops
| from the Russian front.
Italy, France and even England
are honeycombed with workers for an
immediate peace, which would leave
Germany, augmented by her allies, a.
menace to the peace of the world. And
our every day experience shows that
for every propaganda working in
Russia there are two at work in
America. In the public schools of
| New York and in every American
city the pro-German is distilIing his
poison into the minds of those least
able to Withstand it; the Socialists
and avowed Bolshevikists are working
in thousands in the foreign quarters
OF every town in America and no
where more actively than on the East
| Slue IN our own great city.
What is being done to counterfeit
this? What is being done by our gov
| eminent or by other agencies to meet
this peril and to open the eyes of
our citizens to the frightful danger
which menaces them, their women
kind and their property-and which
in case of peace based on compro-
mise, will make US a taxridden and
military nation for generations, SUBJ
ject always to the fall of the BLOODY
Teuton sword, hanging only by hair
above our heads?
The government, by the so-called
and only semi-official bureau of pub
lie information, is doing what it can.
handicapped by lack of appropria-
tons for its purposes.
Compare this with England and
other allied countries assuming liter
ally millions of pamphlets by its best
writers. Much as their money is need
ed for food, ammunition and equip
ment they realize the equal need of
Keeping the people in the war, of
keeping their will to conquer at a
high tension of making the people re-
allze that the war must be won or
they perish.
Here in America only one society
maintains regular news feature ser
vice sent free to over hundred Sun
dap papers throughout the land: holds
mass meetings and distributes
speeches such as that by Samuel Com
pers explaining to the laboring man
why this war is his warmly he must
exert himself and help to win it, or
revert to the slavery of his ancestors
This organization-and 1 speak nj
the American Defense Society-has
helped or been mainly instrumental in
prescribing the seditious soap-box Or
ator, in organizing anti-treason com
m1ttees in nearly two hundred cities
and towns throughout our whole
country.
1t is the only untrammeled ont.
spoken anti-German propaganda So.
ciety operating all over our broad
land, in combating the work of the
enemy"