The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1918-06-06
SPEND MILLIONS
T0sp'R!EAD LIES
;errnans Circulate whispering
Propaganda" Including At
tacks on President.
IS DIRECTED !. FROM SPAIN
Mexico and South America Flooded
With Book Which Likens United
States to Vampire-Lies About
Rainbow Division.

B Washington. The German propa-
ganda was never buster in the United
States than atgthe present time. This
fact haslbeen established by agents of
the government, and energetic meth
DDS to combat this sinister peril are
now being carried out. Not only is
the propaganda, which is operated
from headquarters lin Spain, working
day and night to cause trouble in this
country. but it is also working just as
hard to- discfedit the government of
the United States in Mexico and Cen
trail and South America, where there
has recently appeared for free distri-
button a book entitled Eel Vampire del
Continente," the vampire of the conti-
nent referred to being this country.
An official of the federal govern
ment, one Of whose duties brings him
into contact with German propagan-
da in all parts of the world, said the
Germans were spending hundreds of
millions of dollars to spread discon-
tent particularly among the unedu-
Gated people Id all the countries of the
allies, their activities including among
other schemes concerted and vicious
attack, wherever possible, on Presi-
dent Wilson. Premier Lloyd George
and sother high officials Of the allied
governments.
Worked for Years on Scheme.
So 1--WE know that for years before the
outbreak Of war in 1914 the German
government worked to perfect its
propa ganda arm in Germany they
called into the service of the state for
this purpose the great psychologists of
fhe3codntry, the Gbig newspaper men,
the university professors, trade ex-
gpefts, and Seyen novelists and drama
fists. Agents were sent into every
/ country in the world to study the
speople, until the government files in
Berlin contained complete data re-
gartling the peculiarities and suseepti-
] bflitiesgof allSpeople with whom Ger
many had reason to anticipate a
clash.
sgaata concentrated against England IN
IN effort to isolate, that nation Every
neutral country in the world was flood
etia with sfafseH information regarding
England and her purposes in the war.
Now the attack is switching from
England to the United States. Every
possible effort to poison the minds of
the people in certain parts of the coun-
try is being. resorted to, the effort be-
ing especially vicious in those parts of
the country where the percentage of
illiteraey issgreatest, and among the
negroes. The special story which is
being whispered over the country
and 1--WE are the,evictims of what is
/ known assthe0 .whispering propaganda
rs that this Is war of the wealthy
classes, and that the president plunged
the country Into the struggle to save
the millionaires' as well as to safe
guard Americas huge loans and cred
its TO the allied countries.
1--WE have even established the fact
that the propaganda has penetrated
/ into the mountain Businesses of the
.Carolinas and Georgia, where the
mountaineers have been led to believe
that another Civil war is imminent.
lies About Rainbow Division.
1.-THE disaster story has also been
worked to a finish in all parts of the
cauntry. The Rainbow division has
been picked out as the victim of this
phase of the propaganda, because it
represents all sections of the country,
and disaster which overwhelmed that
command would have its effect in all
parts of the; nation, and not in some
particular section.
1, This Is the source Of all those mys-
terious rumors to the effect that this