New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-05-12

BY Kenneth Mcgowan
TryHAT acold Americas share the Great War be to-day
w If William Randolph Hearst and his editors had been
- in charge at Washington? HIS papers make the an
sver plain.
Suppose that the Hearst editorials had been Congressional
bills.
Suppose that Hearst had aren messages Congress m
stead of personal prvote letters of Instruction, to his
editors.
Suppose first that Aanerica-umder Hears-coud be at
wor Nth Ge1mamy
If these supp0sltaonS facts them
The citizens United States, under universal mill
tary training would be marshaed the Atlantic Pacific
seaboards and along the Mexican border We should have
kept our army home "defend America" We should
have kept at home defeat Germany by opera
tons at natural base" We should have kept army
at home because we believed IN "America frstw
We should have placed beside tour beloved ally,
France at Azniens just fighting unit the Roosevelt vol
Half navy would be cruising the Pacific, and the
rest anchored in home waters.
We should have lent money % the Allies, leaving
them rely what Hearst has called their bankrupt"
credit.
We should have made effort provision the Allies
should have made sacrifice that food might win the
We should have built ships "feed the NAV of the
submarines"
We should have bent our industrial and military energies
in two directions. We should have built a large fleet of
marines for defence. And should have relied defeat
ing Germany by gigantic air offensive, after the necessary
to FIVE years of PREPARATION
That is alias regards Germany.
But should undoubtedly be fighting Mexico, probably
Japan, and possibly Britain.
A paper War" Made by Newspapers
toward Americas participation in the war is
short statements When America hesated the brink
Hearst declared that the struggle would be paper war; After Amer
lea challenge consistently
which would have made
If that short very grave
carries serious Implications terrible possibilities.
The gravity Of the which
his has undoubtedly deerrng
from gasping creding large factor been the
Hearst camouAage If he had leading
sort attitude would have been to haeujah chorus america
frst" backdoor patriotism
What who Of
the
'Let every energy be bent upon preparation for
powerful and wholly victorious war :"
would anything passion Germany
in the
Perhaps the reader also saw in "Tbe Amercan Of Nav - 1917
the words:
"Ow only strategy is to spend all money
all our labor IN preparing and armies HERE AT
THEIR NATURAL BASE and compelling Germany, if
she fight, and how likes the
taste of OUR GRANTEE
Action! But Not Against Germany
as ney "ere the Hearst OF March, April
nay astute fitted confused undrected period Before
war declared they played dislike of
A~ard they dabocay clever busy doing
nong vigorous apathetic policies They
80 enough preach naction
not do something he always something That
policy from April 1917 onward He refuse
money and food Europe without equally them boun
uuly to America fighting Germany posed
Mexico and Japan enemies
Hearst began recognize early March,
" sove still to keep out Of but he began organize
by which might be kept relatively Of it, though
shncaly it. Telling that Germany wn urged