Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1918-10-03

q Paris. H. easily imposed upon Win
stories Of French vice. The German
propagandist knows that. He b plan
ming to take advantage Of It for his
own purposes. He ID making o drive
0poa the sentiments and emotions of
American women just as he at hrst At
tackled the susceptibillties Of the ltal'
ian women behind the lines in prepar-
ing the way for the Italian defeat.
| How well he 70 succeeding In America
70 shown BY Q passage In that appeal
for . protest to President Wilson
which was printed In the religious
press.
Il pointed out: Throughout this
country q feeling Of bitterness dam
gerous In the extreme IL arising and
gazing with menacing eyes toward
France. The mothers who have reared
sons strong and clean. and who have
given them with glad. aching hearts
women who have loved France and
! gl0riied her-are now muttering that
our boys are wanted for the profits Of
their debauchery and not to take their
deaths in strength and cleanliness"
Such mothers are the victims Of q
German falsehoOd. So is the writer
who thus described them and pro-
tested against the "debauchery" Of
their soldier sons. The reports Of i'm.
moral conditions in France and the
campaigns Of protest against those
conditions are equally the work of
German agents, assisted by the preju.
| diced credulity of their American vic
Tins.
MI. Citizen, the committee on pub.
lie information wishes to warn you
against these snares. There will be
more Of them. In Italy anonymous
letters were sent to the soldiers from
their homes accusing their wives Of in
fidelity. Our military censorship pre-
vents such tactics among our men, but
| similar imposturcs will doubtless be
attempted. Already forged letters
pretending to be from soldiers In
France have been found in the Hobbies
of New York theaters, as If acct
dentally dropped there by the recipi.
ents. The letters are always In the
angular handwriting of persons accus-
toned to using German script. So far
they have contained little but alarming
falsehoods about the alleged slaughter
Of American regiments.
%Slandering the British.
In order to set us against our Brit
ish allies, several sorts Of "whisper-
ing propaganda" are being used.
There is the story that American SOL
diers are Keeling around the streets Of
London, drunk. 1t has been disproved.
There is the charge that while We are
stinting ourselves to save grain the
English are using it to make whisky
although we are saving and shipping
chiefly wheat, which is little used in
distilling, and the figures from Eng.
land show that the English liquor
traffic has been decreased by the war
almost as much as ours. And there Is
the report that millions of British SOL
diers are held In England while the
allies r doing their fighting for
them"-a falsehood that Is sufficiently
discounted by the fact that the British
empire has 7,500.0 900 men in the field
and Il half million in her fleet: that
of the British troops in France 20 pei
cent are English, 8 per cent Scotch. G
per cent Irish, and 16 per cent Cana
dams, Australians, etc. and that the
casualties among these troops have
been 76 per cent English, 10 per cent
Scotch, 6 per cent Irish, and 8 pei
cent Canadian, Australian, etc.
The German Observation-Disclosures who
first supplied arms for the revolt ir
Ulster against home rule, and subse
quently shipped arms for the revolt o.
the home ~rulers-these same promot
ers of disunity are now furnishin.
the Irish in America with any story
any argument. any SANDER that cal
arouse anti-English prejudice amonl
us. On the Pacific coast. in the sam
way, they are rafting the dry bones O.
the yellow peril. The average organ
Of publicity that II pro-German be
fore Il declaration of war, no mat
ter how pro-American it now pretend
to be, almost Invariably uses the anti
British and the %anti-Japanese appeals
And just as the Zimmerman note trie,
to unite Mexico and Japan against u!
SO the enemy Of Il unity alternate
denunciations of the yellow peril wit
appeals for a declaration Of wa
against Mexico.
!. Should Be on Guard.
! The German sympathiZer who tell
: you the story If how Il discharge
; Japanese servant boosted that tn
, japanese would soon Town America,
, Invariably couples it with n lying az
!, count Of how all Washington is sayin
that "the next war will be with Grea
Britain about the Panama canal" o
the Italian front, before the SUGGEST,
German drive, counterfcits of Mia
newspapers were circulated, contain
L Ing accounts of how bread riots ha
, been suppressed in north Italian town
l by British soldiers imported for tn:
purpose. after Italian troops had r,
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