Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-12-13
Propaganda Probe to Be
Resumed IN Senate Friday;
HeUrst'S Letters Are Read

ish. He is surely violently pro-cor-
poration. He is located where he can
do the corporations the most good,
and he has been unwilling to be re-
moved, or they have been unwilling
to have him removed even for q po-
SitiOn on the supreme bench. He and
Burleson are Houses appointments.
and House has been J. corporation
lobbyist all his life. .
THE object of the Zimmerman for
gerry was to brighten congress into
glowing the president the powers that
he demanded and perhaps also into
passing the espionage bill When
| Wilson wanted to give away the
rights of the United States in the
! Panama canal he pretended that he
I had private information of a dan
gerous international situation sul1-
cient to justify his acts. He has
never revealed his private informa
ton and no one now believes that he
ever had any.
''He could not repeat this false
claim on this occasion so complai-
SAINT cabinet officer this time under
took to manufacture sufficient false
evidence to enable Mr.. Wilson to have
his way. 1t is possible that the
British secret service co-operated in
| these plans. The only serious con-
| sequence is that the whole people
of this country, ninety per cen of
whom do not want war, may be pro-
jected into war because of these mis-
representations and these forged
documents, if they are forged.
IF we do not want to say all this
editorially, we can say part of it
editorially, and get some one to
stand for interview as Hale use to
do to bring all these points out, es-
pecially those about the probable
forgery of the note. We should de-
velop the forgery phase of the note
for the Sunday paper if Francis and
[ seem to be right"
A message dated February 81, 1917,
addressed to Philip Francis, in care
OF the New York American, said
there should be vigorous attack on
the espionage bill. and quoted Sena-
tor CumminS as saying the measure
was the most stringent and drastic
ever proposed to curb a free people.
THE Democratic party" the mes
sage adds, seems to forget that this
is a republic in which the people
govern, and in which full information
is essential to intelligent govern
ment."
A message date March 8, 1917,
signed Hearst" and sent to Carval-
no, said:
IF situation quiets down please
remove color flags from first page
and little flags on inside pages, re-
serving these for special occasions of
a warlike or patriotic kind. L think
they have been good for this week,
giving us a very American character
and probably helping sell papers, but
to continue effective, they should be
reserved for occasions
"Red, White and Blue"
a message signed Hearst" ad-
dressed to Carvalho dated February
20, 1917. said:
why not run the red, white and
blue title that we had for last edi-
tion through all editions for q few
days during these troublouS times?
think it will meet popular senti-
ment. Also please run little Ameri-
lines on inside pages, like the Chicago
Herald. Our editorials should be
patriotic without the slightest crit
cism direct or indirect of administra-
ton. l guess Germany is going to
sink every ship that tries to run the
submarine blockade and this means
three things-first. that we will get
into the war, second, that England
Will be starved into submission in
less than six months, third, that Ger
many will then have time to devote
TO us and this country will soon be
in condition similar to warning Eu-
ropean countries. We must prepare
IN every way. Can we say these
things editorially?"
A message dated February 26, 1917,
from New York, signed ivan Hamm"
addressed to w. r. Hearst, Palm
Beach. Fla. said:
Earnestly urge Immediate action
TO check or stop Hale dispatches.
They come by wireless and surely are
picked up despite your well-known
attitude of neutrality. These dis
patches are so worded as to permit
the Interpretation that Berlin is die
tatlng our policy. 1 fear we are
drifting into situation akin to the
raise Mckinley one only accentuate ted
MANIFOLD. With profound respect L
urge we check Hale and all agencies
that tend to throw discredit upon
our declared attitude of sturdy
Americanism."
On February 20. 1917, Hearst sent
a message addressed to +. W. KEEL
logg, Washington Bureau of the New
YORK American, saying: when / in
scrlbed the watchword An American
paper for the American people over
the titles Of my newspapers, | meant
Just what that motto said" and de-
claring he would not supplicate Eng
land for news or for print paper or
Tor permission to issue, nor allow
his papers to be edited in the small
est degree by an foreign power. A
message on the same day to Car
Valho, asked that the verses of the
Star Spangled Banner" be kept
standing across the Americans edi
torial page, and that the evening pa
pers keep standing verses reproduced
from Harper's Weekly during the
Civil war and referring to shipments
OF arms by England to the south"
Under date of February rs, 1917.
a message signed Hearst directed
Philip Francis, of the New York
American, to write an editorial ad-
vocating embargo for the American,
along your own lines" and to pre-
III f1a fVarr
simplifying and improving sugges-
tions, some of which were as fol-
lows:
America is not only being starv-
ed for the benefit of warning Europe,
out It is being dT5 plundeTed of it's
ceiying in return counters media of
exchange which may become COM
paratively worthless and promises to
pay which may never be redeemed.
bankrupt?
I'VE are revealing in mock pros
perlty and will all wake up some
line morning and find the sheriff at
our doors.
Why are we wasting our wealth?
II II were for some noble purpose,
we could afford to go poor for
generation and find comfort and con-
ISOLATION in worthy deed. But no
we are wasting our wealth to con-
Ilhue q carnival of murder to pro-
long an era of Overwhelming disas-
ter, to encourage the destruction of
the white race, to tear the achieve
ments of civilization which have TAX
en- ages to construct, to repudiate re-
llglon and violate all esta blished
standards of decency, morality and
righteousness, to prostitute the prog
reSs OF the world to the meanest and
Dasest and vilest of purposes"
George Sylvester Vierick, editor If
nlerlck's Weekly, formerly The Pa
therland, whose names has been men,
toned several times in the inquiry.
sent Hearst message from New
York under date Of March l. saving
he believed the story of the thinner
man note was "hoax" and that the
document was planted by British
agents."