New Britain herald., 1918-05-11
States Department of Justit

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 the letters of this Chicago man to
 him and of the replies and asked if MT. Mansur had stopped advertising, and wanted to know if he was going on advertising next year. and then if he were an American citizen. The last query taken in connection with the first two contained of course, an implication that was in effect threat This shows that the depart ment of justice had knowledge of the attempt. and lent it's official DOW CT to further it, unless the man in question had stolen the special agents shield which he possessed and forged his name and address. The above facts MT. Burleson cannot truthfully deny, and they absolutely demon Strate the exactnesS of my staten ent. so far as the administrations effort to punish the publications which up- hold the war but have told the truth about the administrators failure to conduct the war efficiently
 Failed to Stop Hearst.
 Now for the second part of my statement The prime example of failure by the administration to pro- ceed against newspapers which op-
 
 lies or directly Or indirectly aided Germany is afforded by a failure of the administration to deal with Mir. Hearsts papers as it has dealt with certain other papers, MT. Hearst is a. very wealthy man, reputed to be much more than millionaire, own ing a dozen newspapers more or less, and a half dozen magazines in differ ent parts of the country. At the very beginning of the war the govern ment proceeded successfully against Tom Watson's publication in Georgia. Yet Tom Watson had done nothing that was anything like as dangerous to this country and our allies and as helpful to Germany as MT. Hearst had done.
 Tt is interesting to remember that the administration had full warning about Hearst's probable attitude by his previous editorials attacking Ger many's foes and defending Germany. I have before me at the moment q copy of The New York American edi- torial of June $, 1915, signed by MT. Hearst himself. saying that we have no right to ask Germany to refrain from submarine warfare against the commerce of her enemies and that the Lusitania was an English vessel and was properly a spoil of war. and that it's destruction by the German subma- rine was in accordance with the auth orized and accepted rules Of warfare.
 After we went into the war. on April II. 1917, Mir. Hearst wrote Stripping our country of men. money and food is a dangerous policy. Our earnest suggestion to the congress is that it imperatively refuse to permit the further draining of our food sup plies and our military supplies to Europe
 Attack on England.
 This. of course, was equivalent to a demand that after going to war We should turn around and help Germany more than if We had continued to re- main neutral. On April 24. 1917, The New York American said: The painful truth is that we are being practically used as a mere reinfor cement of Eng lands warfare and England's future aggrandizement. This. of course. was an effort against our ally and an ef- fort to pander to anti i-English preju dice in the interest of our foes.& and nothing else. Onp pMayf1 ', it advocated our spending all our+m oney on pre- pairing our army and navy here at
  she wants to fight to come to us, which was. of course. equivalent to answer 1 ing that we would render no aid to ] defeat Germany until she had defeated ] our allies and was prepared to attack 1 us single handed.
 "On May 25 the same paper said Of l the efforts ot float the Liberty Loan: 1 If you want our food and wealth sent l abroad to help suffering England, buy 1 Liberty bond. furnish the snews of l war In view of Hearst's continued 1 efforts to excite hatred between the ] United States and England the impli- { cation of this sentence cannot be mis-
 taken. In the very next sentence he 1 suhtly attempts to appeal to all men 1 with a feeling of affection for Ger many by iDtimating that whoever pur- l chased a Liberty bond desired to see 1 Germany not merely defeated but l 'dismem bered. n July 27 The New i York American spoke of our soldiers i being sent over to be offered LID in l bloody sa acrif1ce to the ambition of con- l tending nations on foreign battle !! fields. n November p it spoke of our
 Interfering in Europe's quarrels,' It i is absolutely impossible to reconcile 1 the government5s acton in proceeding l against Tom Watsons paper with it's l failure to proceed against Mr.. Hea rst' s !, papers on any theory that justice was
 to be done alike to the strong and to
 the weak.
 By turning to The New York
 Tribune of May s, 1918. Postma ster l General Burleson will find an ardent 1 tribute made by the former German
 correspondent of the koelnische Zei- ! tung to MT. Hearst. and Mir Hearst's editor in chief, Arthur Brisbane, for
 having been 'auXiliaries of valued in
 fuence' to Germany, especially be-
 cause of the editorials in the Hearst
 neWSDaDerS. commend this to Mi,