New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-01-11
JOHN R. RATHOM HAS
Been THE EYES OF
THIS GOVERNMENT
EDITOR OF PROVIDENCE
JOURNAL PUT REPORTERS
IN TWELVE OF MOST I'M
PORTANT GERMAN AND
AUSTRIAN CONSULATES

effectlveiy, 10 tofcipiy Illustrated IN
the story of the work of John r.
Rathom. editor of the Provid snce
journal" of Providence, R. I.
A brief outline of his great work
is given in the story which is ap-
pended, and which is taken from the
"World's Work" for December. The
story was written by French Stroth-
er.
The complete story of the work
of the Providence Journal" as
directed by Mr.. Rathom, will be re-
lated in a series of articles which
will be commenced in the Worlds
Work" for February. Here will be
found a vast deal of American his
tory, in ihe making. How We were
irresistibly drawn into the war with
Germany will be gradually unfolded.
The story will be one of so great
interest that NO American citizen
will be willing to miss it. The War
News hopes its readers will not fail
to read the series. The better in.
formed are the citizens of New Mex
leo, the greater will be their zeal
in helping America and her Allies
W ShC war
(World's Work)
John r. Rathom. editor of the
Providence journal" is the man who
discovered and exposed the German
plots in this country. He is the man
who forced the recall of the pre-
cious Won Papen and the notorious
Boy Ed. He is the man who un-
carthed DIR. Heinrich Albert and his
S4000'000 corruption fund and sent
him back TO Germany. He is the
man who discovered and revealed the
plot to restore Huerta to a German
made dictatorship in Mexico, He
is the man who proved that the
Lusitania warning was sent out by
the German Embassy on orders di-
rect from Berlin. He is the man
who exposed William Jennings
Bryan's peace at any price" inter
view with Dumba. He is the man
who sent Consul General Bopp, at
San Francisco, to prison for two
years for conspiracy. He is the man
who warned the Government that
the Canadian Parliament Building at
Ottawa was to be fired, three weeks
before it was burned by German
agents.
Patriot; Without Official Authority
In brief he is the man who with
out official authority was for three
years the eyes of the nation, guard
ing it against the treachery Of the
German Government He has been
a patriot of the highest order in the
face, first, of early unbelief and rid
icule on the part of our own gov
ernment; and then Of slander and
abuse on the part of the whole pro-
German element in this country.
His Work Was Enormous
"The Providence Journal will say
this morning." that phrase, familiar
to every newspaper reader in the
United States, has been the preface
to the exposure of nearly every Ger
man plot that has been told to the
American public since the World War
began. Merely to list all these ex-
posures, giving only the barest out
lines of names, dates, and places in
volved, would require ten or twelve
pages of type like this in WORLDS
WORK. To reprint all of the
thousands of original cablegrams,
letters, checks, photographs and
codes on which they are based would
fill a five-foot shelf of books.
Records Stored In Triplicate
This mass of data, accumulated in
three years of ceaseless search, is
stored in triplicate in vaults in Prov
idence, New York and Washington.
Copies of every item of it have been
supplied, as discovered. to the State
Department in Washington or to
some other branch of the Govern
ment. 1t is literally the foundation
stone upon which has been erected
the whole structure of our present
enormous secret service, and it is
the cause of the awakening of the
American people to the hideous men,
ace of Germany's cold-blooded as
saults upon our very existence as
an independent nation.
How 1t Has Occurred
How has it happened that pro-
vincial newspaper lit is called the
Rhode Island Bible" in its own ter
ritory) has been the means of dis
closing facts that usually are pro-
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governments and kept guarded like
precious Jewels in the most sacred
archives of their State departments !
1t has happened because:
Rathom's Vision To Foresee
1. John R. Rathom. editor of the
Journal" sensed from the first hour
of the war that we were
World Power with world
wide interests: that we were one oi
the objects of Germany's mad am
bition to DESTROY democracy the
world over; and that the cataclysm
in Europe was. no less for us ir
! America than for Great Britain and
France, the crucial test Of all his
tory.
| Paper Owners Patriotic
2. Because Mr.. Rathom, encourages
and financed by the owners of hi.
conservative old New England paper
and working with the aid of doz
en- loyal newspaper reporters. ha!
beaten the German secret service a
their own game a hundred time.
since the war began.
Knew Activities Would Follow
5. Because he had the foresigh
to have taken down in writing an.
kept on file every wireless dispatcl
sent by the great Sayville and Tuck