Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-02-12
GIVES. WARNING
OF PROPAGANDA
FROM GERMANY
Defense society's Executive
Chairman Asks Co-opera-
ton of all Citizens.

THE only untrameled, .outspoken
anti-German propaganda society OPP
Grating all over our broad land in
combating the work of the enemy" Is
the way in which Henry G. Quinby,
chairman of the Executive Committee
OF the American Defense society de-
scribes the position occupied by the
society in a statement urging all citi-
zens to awake to Americas imminent
needs. This organization" he says.
has been largely influential i'll pre-
scribing enemy insurance companies.
abolishing the seditious soap-box ora
tor, and in organizing anti-treasOn
committees in nearly 200 cities and
towns throughout the country"
Mr.. Quimby maintains that the war
Is being fought by Germany very
largely through speakers and writer's
amongst he'll enemies.
"1f this war should end in an in
conclusive peace, or a peace in n
way favorable to Germany" he says,
lit will not be the result of their su-
periOr fighting 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
mics. In Russia before the revolution
there. Germany was spending ten mill
lion dollars a month and maintained
there more than ter thousand indi-
lviduals preaching pacif1sm n pro-
|Germanism.
THAT has largely helped in taking
Russia out of the wal land releasing
upwards of two million German
troops from the Russian front.
Italy, France and even England
are honeycombed with workers for an
immediate peace. which would leave
Germany, augmented by her allies. a
menace to the eac of the world.
And our every day experience shows
that for every propaganda working
i'm Russia there are two at work in
America. In the public schools of
New York n in every American city
the pro-German is distilling his poison
into the minds of those least able to
withstand it,; the Socialists and WOW
ed Bolshevikists are working in thou
sands 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
this? What is being done by our gov
eminent or by other agencies to meet
this peril and to open the eyes of our
menaces them, their womenkind and
their property-and which in case of
a a based on compromise, will
make us a t%axridden and military ma
ton for generations, subject always to
the fall Of the, bloody Teuton sword,
hanging only by u hair above our
heads?
The government, by the so-called,
land only semi-ot1icial. bureau of pub
handicapped by lack of appropriations
for it's PURPOSES.
Compare this with England and
other allied countries assuming liter
ally millions of pamphlets by its best
writer's. Much as their none is
needed for food, ammunition and
equipment they realize the equal need
of keeping the people in the war, OF
keeping their will to conquer at a
high tension of making the people
realize that the wal must be Won OF
they perish. w..
"Herc in America only one societ,
maintains a regular news feature
service. sem free to over a hundred
Sunday papers throughout the land;
holds a meetings and distributes
speeches such as that by Samuel
Gompers. explaining to the laborine
man why this war is his warmly he
must exert himself and help to win it
or revert to the slavery of his ances.
tors.
This organization-and I speak OF
the American Defense Society-ha:
helped or been mainly instrumental il
prescribing enemy insurance com
panies, in abolishing the seditiou:
soap-box orator. in organizing anti
treason committees in nearly two
hundred cities and towns Throughout
our whole country.
cit is the only untrameled outspok
en- anti German propaganda societ,
operating all over our broad land, II
con1 hating the work of the enemy