New-York tribune., 1918-10-17
1t Comes to Life

That evil voice again.
1t says. "The war is over.'
1t says: Beware of the Allies, espe-
cially England"
1t is the voice of Hearst
On Monday, in his Ne,V York Ameri-
cam Hearst printed a signed editorial,
saying: "The United States has won the
war in incredibly quick time and in all
Incredibly overwhelming manner"
This occurs as one paragraph of an
article which blasphemously purports to
be written in support of President Will
sons programme Yet the President
and the Secretary of the Treasury and
al, responsible members of the govern
ment have been trying heroically to
nbate the idea that the war is over.
Yesterday there was another editorial
in The Ne,u York American, entitled
Benefits of Democracy Are Vital;
Those of Territory Transient" 1t quotes
from The London Times piece of COM
ment to the effect that Germany is now
holding out her hand to the one enemy
8hom she has injured least, and whose
cams for damages will necessarily
p,.ve the most moderate, and says
This shows that European nations are
already beginning to forget the determin-
irg part which America played in this
var. They are already forgetting that
General Haig addressed his men, saying
that their backs were up against the wall
and that they must make one final
Il. hat h.
evacuate Paris, and that tho great
guns of the Germans were dropping
shells into Paris; that if America had
delayed month victory might have
been the side of the Germans
But America DID NOT DELAY.
America came to the rescue with her
dauntless soldiers, who were unwilling
to ACCEPT any admission of defeat; who
were confident of being able to stop the
German advance, and who did stop it,
and who did turn the German forward
march into disastrous retreat and over
whelming defeat
This from the voice that said, on
April II, 1917:
Every shipoad of food and military
supplies from this time IS BLOW AT
OUR OWN SAFETY"
And on May II, 1917:
The only correct strategy is to spend
all our money and all our labor in pre-
pairing our navy and our armies HERE
AT THEIR NATURAL BASE, and so
compelling Germany, if she wants to
fight, to to us and how she
likes the taste of our granite
And on June 20, 1917:
Further service in the war should be
matter of choice for Americans"
And on May II, 1917, again:
Our money, like our armies and our
fleet, should be concentrated at it's home
bases and not dispersed abroad
What would have happened to the
democracy of which Hearst is now num-
bling if our strength in money, men and
ships had been concentrated at home?
From the same editorial in yesterdays
NeW York American we quote this ex-
traordinary paragraph:
"The characterization of Europe is as
important to England, for instance, as
the acquisition of Egypt the retention
Of the German colonies, the occupation
of Mesopotamia. Arabia and Syria, the
elimination of Russia as potent rival
influence in the Far East and the de-
struction of Germanys commercial com
petition"
The insinuations in that paragraph
are, first, that England's intentions are
imperialistic, and, second, that, under
the gu'se of war against autocracy,
she has been plotting the commercial
rain Of her ally Russia
Il it had been enough to make Hearst
i.p loyal for the duration Of the Var we
should 1--we been satisfied several
months ago, when people began. to make
bonfirss OF his disloyal newspapers all