Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-12-11
PROPAC CANDA PROBE
UNCOVERS ". R. HEARST
Print in Red, White and Blue Flags
in Paper" He Ordered While
Attacking Policy of u. S.

Washington, Dec. I1.-William Ran
dolph Hearsts instructions TO his editors.
diversified with his personal view o.
administration men and measures, were
ali laid hare before the Senate Sub-conl-
mittee today as part of the investigation
Of brewers activities and pro-Gerrnan
propaganda.
The struggles OF the editor to give his
newspapers a real patriotic flavor while
combating America 5 entrance into the
war, snd pointing out that tie other
policy was the work Of crloks and lob
bsists' appointees, are Ill disclosed, with
the efforts OF his editors to steer h.m of his
course.
Thus he wired
~ ny not run the red. white and blue
title through all editrrs for few days
during these troublous times?
'Piesse nun little American Gags 70
right and left Of date lincs on inside pares
Please keep standing m American
across top ri the editorial page :he
verses OF The Star-Spangled Banner" rs
originally written
ATTACKS ON sDHISIsTRA
Messages such as these were inter
srersed with bitter attacks on tho sd
ministration. beginning in February, 1917.
and running through the period just pre-
ceding smerica : entry into the war At
the same time Mir Hearst vas giving
us 3 very American character and prob
ably helping sell papers Us he said in
one telegram, he vas giving his real opin-
ion OF the administration privately with
such comments rs this.
Agree with Francis Zimmerman note
all probability absolute fake and forgery,
prepared by very unscrupulous At
torncy-generals very unacrupulous de-
partment. he wired to s 5. Carsalho,
formerly his general manager, IN March,
1917. lie concludes this letter by saving
''If we do not want 70 say all this
editorially, We can say part Of it cdi-
torially, and get some one 70 stand for an
interview, as Hale used u do to bring all
these points out
Hearst branded Acknowledgement Greg
ory and Postmaster-Cencral Burleson
as $50 crooked that, as Alfred Henry
Lewis used tu say, one Of them could lie
in bed on top Of the Woolworth Building
and the other on tho ground floor and
look down and up forty-seven fights of
winding stairs into each others eyes and
understand each other perfectly Again,
he said: "He Gregory and Burleson
has been . corporation lobbyist Ill his
LIE"
''Pretense" and false claims" by
President Wilson are alluded TO by the
editor IN the same message He said:
when Wilson wanted to give away
the rights Of the United States in the
Panama Canal he pretended be had pri-
yate information Of dangerous situa-
ton enough 10 justify his acts He never
revealed his private information, and
no one now believes he ever had any"
The message, dated March 2, signed
Doctor and addressed to s. S. Car
valho, New York American, declared
that the famous Zimmerman note, in
which Germany proposed an alliance
With Mexico and Japan, and which the
Associated Press revealed 10 the world,
probably was a forgery prepared by the
attorney general
The object Of tho forgery, the mes
sage SAID was to frghten ConQrcss
into giving the President the powers he
and perhaps also into passing
the espionage blIl
The Hearst message oi February u
follows
u firmly believe that the vast ma
Iority Of the people Of the United States
entirely uudeslTous Of var with Ger
many. ! believe also that the people Of
Germany arc equally industrious Of war
With the United States
Under such circumstances, cannot
zee why the centTy-old friendship Of
he United States and Germany cannot
1e maintained and perpetuated b the
and humanitarian rulers
md political leaders Of our respective