Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-02-18
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TUESDAY,. FEBRUARY is, 1919
THE SUpER-PATRIOTS.

Replying to a critic of his kindly
attitude toward the south after the
civil war. made by a man who. while
of age and good heath. failed to have
a record of even trying to enlist in
the union army, and who was a leader
in sectional bitterness after the war
was over, William Mckinley, who en-
listed as a private and was promoted
for conspicuous bravery until he had
the rank of major when the war end
er, said of his opponent: He was as
invisible in war as he is now invinci-
BILE in peace" After the war was
over Major McKinleys critic became
super patriot man after the order
of those who are now being desig-
mated IN the east as flag wrappers"
It was not the fighting men of the
north and of the south who kept up
the hatred after AppomattoX, when
Grant said, Let there be peace" The
haters were those who never were
close enough to battle to hear the
sound of the biggest cannon.
Just now in North Dakota two news
papers are having a squabble. One
of those papers was against Germany
at a time when being so cost it quite
number of subscribers and some add
vertising from merchants with Ger
man names. The rival newspaper
maintained an attitude of neutrality,
up to the very moment the United
States entered the war. and is charged
with having used its fairness to both
sides to get advertising away from the
other paper. Also to increase its cir
culation list. North Dakota has lot
of German immigrants in its popula-
ton.
Since the war closed, the neutral
paper is vigorously for continuing the
war on Germany; ii is for stamping the
Huns into the ground. Nothing will
satisfy it until German cities are laid
in ruins, as were the cities and towns
of France and Belgium. The paper
that was vigorously against Germany
from the moment the war was on be-
tween the kaiser and the allies, now
has committed the sin of expressing
Willingness for the representatives of
the nations that fought Germany to
fix the punishments and indemnities
to be eXacted, If the men who fought
the Germans down to the Marine and
back again. the men who endured the
mud and the cold and the coolies and
the hunger and the shells and the
poison gas to make the world safe for
democracy see fit to regard the war
as over, the editor of that paper
doesn't know just why he should de-
vote his columns to keeping the flame
of hatred alive.
The Journal has had some expert
ence with the super patriots. About
year ago, when the fighting was on
bitterly and when every day the Jour
nal editorially was doing all that il
could to promote sentiment for more
vigorous prosecution of the war by
the United States, through a typo
graphical error a paragraph appeared
as follows: 1--WE hope the offensive
launched by Hinderburg will be more
successful than that of the crown
prince against Verdun" OF course.
any person with thimbleful of brains
would have known that the Journal
meant to express the hope that Hin
denDurG would NOT be more success
ful than the crown prince, particularly
as there were two fairly long editor
lals on that page about as anti-Ger-
man as the editor knew how to make
them. sssH
But at least one editor saw in the
typographical error an expression of
the deepest disloyalty on the part of
the Journal. To him it was German
propaganda" And citizen of some
financial standing, who, however. had
not bought Liberty Bond or given a
dollar to the Red Cross, nor had a
known relative-unless there might
have been some of his wife's relatives
enlisted--in the war, went to the fed
eral district attorney and wanted the
journal shut out from the mails and
the editor indicted Cor violation of the
espionage act.
Not long ago as an aftermath of
the matter, man whose head is filled
with aching yoids, sent in check
when he was somewhat vigorously
dunned for pay, stopped his paper and
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the appearance Of the paragraph with
the typographical error, had 1t not
been that he wanted TO keep tab on
the Journal TIL the xar - QYeE e..