The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-10-05

Council of Defense of the State Washington, May IS, 1915
of Nevada in convention as My Dear Brisbane: When
sembled with the various you we're at IN "h.e house
County Directors do hereby offices today forgot to ISL
protest against the circulation you to send me tne Chraso
of to various Hearst pubuca- Herald and Examiner regu-
lions among the people of our lary to my olhce mere am
State and do earnestly request sure you are going to make
that the various wv dealers ne ia DOC mocI
of the State refuse to offer fight in Chicago that you have
for sale DR. to handle in any been making in your paper in
wav the Hearst publications; Washington and want to see
and if there b n dealers just how you do it
who, i'm III ace Of this resO- sincerely yours
, IT. "9;s, rsrs'' tor in , N IA, nnaa s"s IP, runuLrY,
Hearst publications that they Secretary to tn President
Ike DEEMED GUILTY OF
DIsLoYALTY.
What of the loyalty of the dealer who delivers this Hearst
newspaper to the presidents secretary in compliance with this
request direct from the White House?
The Tribune believes that the loyal people of America
will approve the action of the Nevada State Council of De-
tense in placing a ban upon the circulation of the Hearst pub
Iralions 1t is d evoutly to be hoped that the federal courts
viii find justification in law for the action taken by the coun-
Gil.
While the Tribune Printing Company, through its book
and stationery department, has been the local distributing
agent for the San Francisco Examiner, there has never been
any defense of or apology for the policy of that newspaper
in relation to the war, and there has never been a time
within the last two years when it would not have welcomed
any action that might have proved effective in securing the
results which the State Council of Defense now seeks to OBJ
tain. And there has been no hesitation in saying so. 1t IS to
be hoped that this action of the Council will render possible
what no dealer. no matter what his zeal or sacrifice, could
have effectively undertaken.
William Randolph Hearst was playing the kaiser's game
long before the flame of war burst forth in 1914. He contn-
ued to play the kaisers game until an aroused and enraged
public sentiment and the revised espionage law drove INN to
shelter under a camouflage that has deceived few besides
himself. Our present allies barred his publications from Eng
land. from France and from Canada, and denied him the use
of the transatlantic cables. The possession of a Hearst
newspaper in Canada is an admission ticket to a Canadian jail
The Tribune will not charge that Hearst was a salaried
member of the infamous spy system maintained by Germany
in this country, but he was its most effective propaganda
and an associate of those who were executing the kaiser's or
des in America.
He PLAYED the kaiser's game in relation to Japan; he play
ed the kaiser's game in relation to Mexico; he played the
kaiser's game at every point, as outlined and developed by
Bernstorff, Boy-Ed, Won Bopp and others now in American
prisons or internment camps.
The most notorious organ of the German propagan-
da in America. until it and its editor, Viereck-by his own
admission a relative of the kaiser-were throtued by our gov
eminent. was The F~atherland. The Fatherland justified the
rape of Belgium and all the crimes committed there by the
barbarous. Hun-and so did Hearst.
The Fatherland justified the murder of women and chill
dren at sea-and so did Hearst.
The Fatherland urged an embargo on supplies to the al
lies-and so did Hearst-both before and after we entered the
The Fatherland preached the slogan "America First and
America Only"-and so did Hearst.
The Fatherand opposed all loans to the allies, private or
public. before we entered and after we entered and so did
Hearst.
When Germany had the allies at the greatest disadvan-
tage the Fatherland urged peace-and so did Hearst.
The Fatherland urged that America should only enter the
war after a referendum vote-and so did Hearst,
The Fatherland opposed the purchase of Liberty bonds
and so did Hearst.
The FatherIand opposed the draft law-and so did Hearst
The Fatherland placed German "kultur" above the civil
cation of democracy and so did Hearst.
The Fatherland libeled the Red Cross and the I. M. Z. A.
and so did Hearst.
When America finally entered the war the Fatherland
found one consolation in America would nave a
voice at the peace table-and so did Hearst.
These organs of German propaganda, before we entered
the war and long afterward, with Vierecks publication wear