The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1920-05-14
WHY We CALLIT
A KEPT PRESS"
Congressman Reveals Morgan
Domination Of the Nations
Newspapers.

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,eople who are wont to accept the
statements Of their favorite daily
newspaper as gospel truth Is to pooh
,ooh the assertions Of those of us who
ealize the vennlity 1T the great news
,aperS when we speak Of the kept
,ress.'' They say there Is no such
hing.
70 all such We recommend n rerusnl
# the Congressional Record. Turn to
he record of proceedings of February
}, 1917. page ;ES2O, and >rnn state
nent read int" the record by unnni-
nous conscn, by Representative Cal
uway of TEXAS. The house was dis
.uSSing the naval appropriation bill
III. II. 2tNH'2) ut the time.
The statement exposes the kept
,rcSS and explains Just how the sen
iments Of the people of this nation
Ire made to order. 1t reads as fol-
uWs:
an March, 1915, the J. p. Nor
gan interests, the steel, shipbuild-
ing and powder interests, and the
subsidiary organizations. got to-
gether II men high up in the
newspaper world and employed
them to select the most influential
newspapers in the United States
and sufficient number Of them to
control generally, the policy Of the
daily press Of the United States.
Is PAPERS SUFFICE.
These - men worked the problem
out by selecting 10 newspapers and
then began by an elimination process
to retain only those necessary Tor the
purpose of controlling the general pol
icy of the daily press throughout the
country. They found it was only nee
essary to purchase the control of -
Of the greatest papers. The - papers
were agreed upon: emiSS;:rieS were
sent to purchase the policy, national
and international. Of these papers; an
agreement was reached; the policy of
the papers was bought, to be paid for
by the moment an editor was fur
nished for each paper to properly SUI
pervlse and edit information regarding
the questions Of preparedness. mill
tarism, financial policies and other
things Of national and international
nature considered vital to the inter.
ests Of the purchasers.
''This contract Is In existence ut the
present time, and it accounts for the
news columns of the daily press Of the
country being filled with all sorts OF
preparedness arguments and mlsrepre
sensations as to the present condition
of the United States army md navy
and the possibility and probability q
the United States being attacked b!
foreign foes.
MORGAN PROPAGANDA.
"This policy also included the sup
preston Of everything In opposition tt
the wishes OF the interests served
The effectiveness Of the scheme ha!
been conclusively demonstrated by tn,
character of stuff carried in the dali,
press throughout the country sine,
March, 1915. They have resorted t.
anything necessary to commerclaliz.
public sentiment and sandbag the ma
tional congress into making extrava
giant and wasteful appropriations fol
the army and navy under the falls.
pretense that 1t wns necessary. Theil
stock argument Is that 1t II patriot
ISM They are playing on every pre-
judice and passion of the American
people"
With Is Of the biggest papers 10 tn,
nation, judiciously distributed. keep
ing up a constant propaganda in ,
certain direction 1t Is not necessnr!
for the big poison syndicate to bu,
the other papers. They assume til,
big papers know the dope" and fol
low their lead, hoping perhaps, t,
some day grab a few crumbs that fal
from the masters tables.
PEOPLE MUST OWN PAPERS.
This exposure not only justifies tn,
term "kept press" but corroborate'
our oft-repeated statement tna1 IN,
only way the people can depend upol
a paper giving them the truth Is t,
own it themselves and control its pol
icy. Papers owned by private individ
uals are run for the money they make
It Is inevitable that sooner or late]
they will succumb to just such a per
nicious proposal as Is of them die
when they contracted with the biz
corporate ring in Wall street to sys
tematically poison the minds Of the
people for the sake OF proflts-in thu
sacred name OF patriotism.
Only the establishment of n chain
Of newspapers owned by the working
people, which will be inclusive enough
In their circulation to reach all cor.
ners Of the nation, and owning their
own news service, will the poison ever
be neutralized and free the pOpulace
from the mental serfd0m to the or
ganized forces Of greed. In establish
ing such papers the common people
are merely guaranteeing themselves
freedom. and are contributing to the
fund of civic righteousness Yakima