The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-28


upon the sentiments and emotions OF
American women just as he at first at
tackled the susceptibilities of the Ital.
ian women behind the lines in prepnr-
ing the way for the Italian defeat
How well he is succeeding In America
is shown by passage in that appeal
for n protest to President Wilson
which was printed in the religious
press.
1t pointed out: Throughout this
country feeling of bitterness dan
gerous in the extreme is arising and
gazing with menacing eyes toward
France. The mothers who have reared
sons strong and clean, and who have
given them with glad, aching hearts
women who have loved France and
glorlfied her-are now mutterlng that
our boys nre wanted for the profits OF
their debauchery and not to take their
deaths in strength and cleanliness"
Such mothers are the victims of
German falsehOOd. So is the writer
who thus described them and pro-
tested against the "debauchery" Of
their soldier sons. The reports OF inn
moral conditions in France and the
campaigns of protest against those
conditions are equally the work of
German agents, assisted by the preju-
diced credullty of their American vic
Tins.
Mr.. Citizen, the committee on pub.
lie information wishes to warn you
against these snareS. There will be
more of them. In Italy anonymous
letters were sent to the soldiers from
their homes accusing their wives of in
fidelity. Our military censorship pre-
vents such tactics among our men. but
similar impostures will doubtless be
attempted. Already forged letters
pretending to be from soldiers in
France have been found in the lobbies
of New York theaters, as If acci-
dentally dropped there by the recipi-
ents. The letters are always in the
angular handwriting of persons accus-
toned to using German script. So far
they have contained little but alarming
falsehoods about the alleged slaughter
of American regiments.
SIsndering the British.
In order to set us against our Brit
ish allies, several sorts of whisper.
ing propaganda" are being used.
There e the story that American sol
d.ers are reeling around the streets of
:.o1Gon. drunk 1t has been disproved.
There is the charge that while we are
stintinE ourselves to save grain the
English are using it to make whisky
although we are saving and shipping
chiefly wheat, which is little used in
distlllinG. and the figures from Eng
land show that the English liquor
traffic has been decreased by the war
almost as much as ours. And there Is
the report that millions of British SOL
dIers are held in England while the
allies are doing their fighting for
them"-a falschood that is sufficiently
discounted by the fact that the British
empire has 100000 men in the field
and half million in her fleet; that
OF the British troops in France 10 per
cent are English, per cent Scotch, g
per cent Irish, and 16 per cent Cana
dians, Australians, ETC.; and that the
casualties among these troops have
been T6 per cent English, 10 per cent
Scotch, 6 per cent Irish, and 8 per
cent Canadian, Australian, etc.
The German Observation-Disclosures who
first supplied arms for the revolt In
Ulster agninst home rule, and subse-
qucntly shipped arms for the revolt or
the home rulers-these same promot-
ers of disunity are now furnishing
the Irish In America with any story.
any argument, any slander that can
arouse anti English prejudice among
us. On the Pacific coast, in the same
way, they are rattling the dry bones of
the yellow peril. The average organ
of publicity that was pro-German be-
fore our declaration of war, no mat
ter how pro-American 1t now pretends
70 be, almost invariably uses the anti
British and the anti-Japanese appeals.
And Just rs the Zimmerman note tried
to unite Mexico and Japan against US,
so the enemy of our unity alternates
denunciatiOns of the yellow peril with
appeals for declaration of war
against Mexico.
Should Be on Guard.
The German sympathizer who tells
YOU the story of how a discharged
japanese servant boasted that the
japanese would soon ''own America"
invariably couples it with lying ac-
count of how all Washington is saying
that 'the next war will be with Great
Britain about the Parama canal" On
the Italian front, before the successful
German drive. counterfeits of Milan
newspapers We're circulated, contain
ing accounts Of how bread riots had
been suppressed in north Italian towns
by British soldiers imported for that
purpose, after Italian troops had re-
fused to fire upon their own people.
All over Italy the argument was used
that the nation was merely pulling