Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-05-27

which the Postoffice Department did
act.
"Op September Is, 1917, Mr.. Hearst's
plea for German peace in The New
York American ran the best peace for
all concerned il peace without victory,
a peace without conquest, a peace with
out indemnities, a peace without annex
ations.'
"On March 2, 1915. Mr.. Hearst made
an embittered attack upon Japan. and
on March 20 he repeated the attack He
spoke of the military despotism of
Japan Of the brutal Oriental selfish
ness in Japan's present attitude and
then asked the question as TO who was
going to drive her from Siberia, answer
ing 1t:
"'Sot the Allies. for they are too
much occupied with their war. Not the
United States, because We are putting
all our eggs in the Allies basket There
is one combination possible which migh>
drive Japan out OF Siberia, and that is
Russia in an active and aggressive al
lance with the Teutonic empire.
Would Make Russia kaiser's Ally
These sentences amount to in
element to Russia to become the
military ally and therefore the mill
tary yassal of Germany, and to the
effort to persuade our people that the
war is not our war only the war of
the Allies-that it is their war
Such language as this. used less
than two months before Mr.. Burleson
issued his challenge to me. is a thou
sand times more damaging to the
United States than anything ever
said by Tom Watson or any other of
the editors of small papers. Fer Mr.
Burieson to allow the paper making
such an appeal to go unchallenged,
and yet at the same time to permit
, without rebuke the New York post
office to attack q publication like
The Metropolitan" is incompatible
with the suppositoin that he was
thinking only of the welfare of the
country.
Mr.. Hearst's paper actually states
that it believes tina tour government
made a great mistake when it did
not meet both English aggressions
and German aggressions
with armed resistance. This was an
! nounced during the war; yet this
| very time when England is protect
ing us from Germany and without
that protection we would be given no
time in which slowly TO make ready
to protect ourselves. II we had be-
gun to prepare in August, 1914. we
would have needed no protection
from others. But we refused 10 pre-
! pare, and therefore we owe our safety
now only to the fact that our friends
are able TO fight for us against our
enemies while we are slowly prepar-
ing TO fight for ourselves. And while
we are at war, expresses regret that
we did not so to war against the
friend who fought for US. Such a
proposal is proposal in the interest
of the enemy, who murdered our
| women and children.
Dollar Placed Above Man
"On September 22. 1917. when the
American nation still had no troops
| IN the trenches, when we had only
| lent money to the Allies, Mr.. Hearst
puts the dollar above the man. when
he stated that our government has
, the right and power to dictate the
terms of peace, and the American
people expect England and the other
allied government to recognize that
right and to accept the terms laid
down: the statement being preceded
by the following: Having practically
exhausted the resources OF Russia.
France and Italy the English aoN-
| eminent now seeks succor in our
American resources. The money of
the American people has been loaned
, to the Allies In great sums. Still!
| greater sums arc In readiness TO lend
them Statements like this cannot
but aid Germany
In all OF Mr.. Hearsts career II
may well be doubted whether he ha s
ever proposed anything more sordid
than this suggestion to the American
people, to free people with a glori-
Gus past: people proudly able and
willing to fight for It's honor. The
proposal is that we should treat hay-
ing lent money to the Allies as off
settlns the fpct that these Allies NJ. d
shed the blood of millions of their
sons In protecting not only them
selves but this country from the
brutal dominion of Germany-a
dominion under which, if Mr.. Hearsts
ADVICE had been followed. this coun-
try would now be covering.
Our Debt to the Allies
The debt the Allies owe 10 ua for
our money IS infinitesimal COM
pared to the debt that We owe them
for the blood shed by their sons on
battiefleids where this nation had as
much at stake as the nation whose
: armies fought thereon.
On March s last Mr.. Hearst,
preaching hatred to Japan and using
language tending to serve Germany
! BY bringing about break between
the United States and Japan. and
perhaps Great Britain. says: If
; Great Britain cannot restrain her
special ally Japan from acts of ag
erosion inimical y our interests. we
can remove our ships and troops
from Europe and transfer them to
Asia. This is a threat Of war With
Japan; threat that we will enter ON
a war OF aggression in Asia. There
could be no possible result of such q
threat except service to GERMANY
was a threat to abandon the war
against Germany, our enemy, and
embark on war against Japan. our
ally; and this because Japan, in the