The Colorado statesman., 1918-09-28
Imperial Germany Spares No
Community in u. S.
PLANTING SEEDS OF KULTUR
Dastardly Assault Is Under the Direc-
tion Of a General staff and Has
Been Prepared With the Ut
most Care.
By HARVEY o'HIooINs,


Mr.. O'Higgins dealing with the propa-
ganda of the enemy in our country)
Mr.. Citizen, you are now on the
firing line.
Imperial Germany is not merely at
tacking on the western front. She is
attacking in every community in the
United States.
Her assault is under the direction OF
the German general staff. 1t has been
prepared as carefully as the strategy
and tactics of military drive. AS In
Russin and in Italy, so here also
campaign of German propnganda-a
gas attack of poisonous lies and ru-
mors and false reports--has been
launched successfully and is now un-
der way.
The collapse of Russia was not
victory for German arms. 1t was a
triumph of German propaganda.
America is row the strongest enemy
that Germany has. A weakening of
our public morale is as necessary to
German success as the weakening of
Russia was. And the attempt to
weaken us has already developed two
main lines of movement. The first
aims 10 destroy our unity of action
with our allies by setting us against
the French, the British and the Jap
ancse. The second proposes to destroy
our domestic unity by encouraging
among us every sort of class dissen-
sion. religious difference, racial preju-
dice and political quarrel.
5landering the French.
/ NJ q a.. L n-T
| that mnpv loyal .pothcrs are refusing
to let their daughters volunteer os
nurses in trnnce because Of rurrors
of immoral conditions in the hospitals
there. A detailed story has been cir
culated to the effect that 200 Red
Cross nurses have recently been re-
/ turned Oh transport from abroad and
secretly removed to maternity hos
pitels here us patients. There is not
"a word Of ruth in the story. 1t has
been investigated by federal grand
jury in New York city and found to
be faisc. German sympathizers caught
| circulating 1t have been interDed. The
nurses In service in our hospitals in
/ Franco have the same discipline and
protection that they have here-anG
need it as little. The story has been
/ invented TO hamper the work Of the
Red Cross and to prejudice us against
our French allies.
A similar aim is evident in the re-
ports of drunkenness and immortality
among our forces Il. the front. These
charges. most circumstantially made,
were even taken up by the national
/ leaders Of our prohibition societies and
purity leagues, md ar appeal was
sent out to the readers of the religious
press asking them to protest 10 Presi'
dent Wilson. The number of these
protests showed the success of the
SANDER.
As n matter of fact. no liquor ration
is served TO our troops either here or
abroad. No army Canteen sells alco-
holic liquors, BY General PershinSs
orders, our soldiers in France are for
hidden "either to buy or to accept as
gifts from the inhabitants" any "alco-
holic beverages other than light wine
or beer" As there is little beer sold
In France, General Pershing reports:
"Men who drink are thus limited 10
the light native wine used by all
French people. Even this is discour-
aged among our troops in every pos
sible way. ] hope to secure tae CO.
operation of the French government
to prevent the sale of all liquors ana
wines to our troops. Personally, /
favor prohibition in the army, but 1t
is impracticable and tnadvisable to
issue orders that cannot BE- enforced
without the cooperation of the French
government"
SIanderina Our Soldiers.
The charge Of drunkenness among
our expeditionary forces is n pro-
German lie designed to alarm the
mothers and fathers of the boys who
have gone to France. The stories of
immortality consequent upon drunken
ness are equally baseless.
When the recruits for the National
army were first assembled in our can
tonmeuts, the medical examiners sent
as Inaay as 40G out of every 1000 men
to the hospitals to be treated for We
nereal diseases. The hospital admis-
sion rate for vencreal diseases in those
camps has since been as low as 64.4
per 1000, and the rate for the men
In our eXpeditionary forces in France
has been as low as 44.2 per 1000.
That is to say, the statistics of the
surgeon generals Office show that our
soldiers in France have been almost
ten times as free from the effects of
immortality as the same sort of men
were when they We're first drafted
These ISLANDERS upoE the nurses ana
upon the troops are typical of the
work of the German general staff. 1t
has been their policy in their cam
paigns of propaganda to circulate in
an enemy country the falsehoods that
| rnost onnenI IN that cuIIntry'S nreiu-