The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-05-07
GIVES WARNING
OF PROPAGANDA
FROM GERMANY
Asks Cc-op~ration of All Citizens
In Com batting the Enemy.

The only untramcled. outspoken
antt-German propaganda soc let y
operating all over our broad land in
is the way in which Henry G.
] Quinby. chairman of the executive
/ committee OF the American Defense
! society describes the position occupied
! by the society in a statement urgin r
all citizens 10 awake to Americas i'm
minent needs. This organization. ''
he says, has been largely influential
in prescribing enemy insurance com
pantes. seoltshing the seditious SOAP
box orator, and IN organizing anti
treason committees IN nearly coo
cities and towns throughout the coun-
try"
MT. Quinby maintains that the war
Is being fought by Germany very
largely through speakers and writers
amongst their enemies
II this war should end in an in =
conclusive peace, or a peace in any
way favorable to Germany" he says.
II VIII not be the result of their SUI
perior lighting ability or of their arms
or material it will be directly due to
their propaganda in the countries Of
the allies This war is being fought
today by Germany largely by speak
ers and writers amongst their enc
mics. In Russia before the revoiu-
tion there. Germany was spending ten
million dollars a month and main
aimed there more than ten thousand
individuals preaching pacifiSm aud
pro- Germanism
That was largely helped in taking
Russia out OF the war and releasing
upwards OF two million German troops
II ON the Russian front.
ITALY, France and even England
are honeycombed with workers for an
immediate peace, which would leave
Germany. augmented by her allieS. r
menace to the peace of the world. And
our everyday experience shows that
for every propagandist working in
Russia there are two at work in
America. In the public schools OF
New York and in every American city
the pro-(;eruan is distilling his poi
son into the minds OF those least able
to withstand II; the Socialists and
avowed Bolsevikists are working in
thousands in the foreign quarters OF
every town in America and nowhere
more actively than on the east side IN
our own great city.
What is being done to counteract
mis- What is being done by our
government or by other agencies to
meet this peril and to open the eyes
OF our citizens to the frightful dan -
ger which meaaces them. their wo-
menkind and their property-and
which in case OF peace based on
compromise, Will make US a taxridden
and military nation Tor generations.
subject always 10 the fall OF the
bloody Teuton sword hanging only
by hair above our heads
The government. bv the so-cai ed.
and only semi-oriciAA bureau OF
public information. Is doing what it
can. handicapped by lack OF appro-
priations for it's purposes
Compare this with Fin gland and
other allied countries assuming it,
orally millions OF pamphlets by its
best writers. Much as their money ~
needed for food, ammunition and
equipment they realize the equal need
Of keeping the people in the war. OF
/ Iteeping their will to conquer Al A
/ gh tension Of making The people
, realize that the war must be won or
! they perish.
Here in America only Sous society
J maintains regular news feature
service, sent free to over a hundred
| sunday papers throughout the land
holds mass meetings and distribute
4 speeches such as that by Samuel
/ Gompers explaining 10 the laborjne
. man why this war is his war--Vhv
I he must exert himself and helm 70
! win It, or revert TO the slavery Of his
! ancestors
This organization and 7 speak OF
/ the American Defense society," as
helped or been mainly Instruments
in prescribing enemy insurance corn
! ranies in aholishinE the Seditlous
! soap box orator. in organizing anti
treason committees in nearly TWO hun
dred cities and towns throughout our
/ whole country.
1T Is the only untrameled ont
spoken anti-Gern1an propa Eanda So
ctety operating all over our broat
land, in combating the work Of tht
enemy