Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-01-17

course, are all familiar WITH the 1de'>
about the case of Mr. Hearst. but III
these war matters some of US are Ike
~ to grow tired OF hearing trite repe-
: tition of matters which have taxed our
attention for so long. the cause oelhs
. now removed, We are apt to feel tnat NO
responsibility remains. and neither doe
it to so great an extent; but still. gen
; tlemen, we ought not to forget that
, if those American troops of ours. many
Of whom are still over across. had NOS
. performed that duty which they were
sent to perform so vigorously and thor
oughly We would still be eating war
bread and enduring all the pnvatoh'
and hardships of war work which W.
have endured for so many months. la
it not been for the heroic deeds per-
formed by our troops in July over N
France the Germans would nave
broken through to the coast. and we
can imagine what the results would
have been. Now along comes Mr..
Hearst, this spectacular. hypocritica'.
constituencies demagogue. this man
who is utterly opposed to the princi'
pies Of Americanism. who has been 50
aptly termed our champion star
spangled shammer.' and who endea'-
ors now to parade himself before the
public as the patron OF these troops
who are coming home in order to r.
habilitate his political capital. Whea
the war broke out Mr.. Hearst enlisted
with Germany. although. SO far as l
know. he is not German-born and not
of German extraction. He did this for
the purely selfish reason that he be-
iieved the Central Powers would pre-
vail. Even so late as January !, 1871.
he declared in publication Of his
printed in the German language, no"
suppressed as l understand 1t, that the
final victory of the Central Powers IS
Just as sure as the amen In church.
Mr.. Hearts friends now come forward
and say that the reason WHY he has
supported Germany throughout this
war is because of his intense hatred Of
England. He has no more cause for
hatred toward England. gentlemen.
than YOU or !. His only reason for
such hatred is that when he was boy
he read in his school history that the
United States beat England in two
wars; but since August. 1911. until the
entering of the United States into this
mize the atrocities committed by the
Germans on the inhabitants Of those in
vaded lands of France and Belgium and
to exert every pressure at mis- command
against England. Whenever mer-
chant ship bound with provisions for
Germany was seized and brought into
.. an English port and brought before 4
prize court, that was very wicked
thing; but whenever submarine
drowned whole shipload Of passen-
gers that did not amount to very much;
, and so on through the entire war he
tried his best to keep US out, and then
when we did get in he retired to his
second Hindenberg line and tried to
prevent our doing the Allies any good.
first by advocating that we keep all our
foods and munitions on this side, and
that We send no ships across and no
troops Then. after We had been in
the war several months he claimed that
we were merely 4 cats paw for Eng
land and that our men were being sent
, across as bloody sacrifice.
Mr.. GlLMouR of Westb-ook: May
I be allowed to interrupt :he gentle
man" He has substituted the wor
England for Great Britain. 1t is not
England.
The SPEAK5E: The Chair will stat,
that the gentleman (Mr. G!lmour> is on:
of order.
Mr.. COWAE resuminG: I stand
corrected MIR. Speaker. When the
infamous Zimmerman note was eX-
posed by the attorney general Of the
United States, Mr.. Hearst called the
attorney generals exposure in the
papers a forgery, and he held to that
as long as he could. III the meantime
he was praising the Bolsheviki in
Russia as honorable men, men who
were freeing their country from an
awful curse. and praising their
agents and leaders who brought
about that shameful treaty of peace
with Germany. Then he tried to prove
his loyalty to his country by deco
rating his papers with the American
flags, trying to show by that SYM
boil that because he puts flag on his
paper he is Il loyal-hearted Ameri-
can. He did this deliberately. gentle
men. not only for the purpose Of try
ing to prove that he was loyal
American, but to sell his papers. as
shown by this telegram to the New
York American dated March 5. 1917,
as follows:
"If situation quiets down please
remove color flags from first page
and little flags from inside pages.
rcscrving these for special occasions
Of Il war-like or patriotic kind. I
think they have been good for this
week. giving us 4 very American
character and probably helping sell
papers, but to continue effective they
should be reserved for occasions.
Hearst"
Now. then. as say. he was trying
to prevent bloodshed by keeping our
soldiers here at home; but you will
remember. gentlemen. not so very
long ago he was advocating that we
go down and conquer Mexico even
il we had to raise million or two
million men to do it, and march them
right straight through that country
from the northern border to the
1sthmus, and annex Mexico with all
her troubles to our nation; and this
because he was the owner of great
ranch and oil OfODertie S in that couy,.