The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-04-08
WHY We CALL|T
A KEPT PRESS"
Congressman Reveals Morgan
Domination of the Nations
Newspapers.

One OF the faVOr1te diversions OF the
people who are wont to accept the
statements of their favorite daily
newspaper as gospel truth is to pooh,
pooh the assertions of those Of us who
realize the venality Of the great news.
papers when we speak of the kept
press" They say there is nc such
thing.
To all such we recommend a perusal
Of the Congressional Record. Turn to
the record Of proceedings of February
8, 1917, page 1920, and scan Il state
ment read into the record by unani-
nous consent by Representative Gal
loway of Texas. The house was dis
cussing the naval appropriation bill
Oh. r. 2OG32) at the time.
The statement exposes the kept
press and explains just how the SEN
timents of the people of this nation
are made to order. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
"In March, 1915, the J. p. Nor
gan interests, the steel, shipbuiId-
ing and powder interests, and the
subsidiary organizations, got to-
gether IL 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.
t"ThnSA 10 mon yror.l-nI thu ypch1o~o
out by selecting 17Y newspapers and
then beam by an elimination process
to retain only those necessary for 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 25
of the greatest papers. The 25 papers
were agreed upon; emissaries were
sent to purchase the policy, national
and International, Of these papers,; an
agreement a 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
pervise 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 at 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 misrepre-
sensations as to the present condition
of the United States army and navy,
and the possibility and probability of
the United States being attacked by
foreign foes.
MORGAN PROPAGANDA.
"Tlis policy also included the sup
preston of everything in opposition to
the wishes of the interests served.
The effectiveness of the scheme has
been ~conclusively demonstrated by the
character of stuff carried in the daily
press throughout the country since
March, 1915. They have resorted to
anything necessary to commemorative
public sentiment and sandbag the ma
t:onal congress into making extrava-
CANT and wasteful appropriations for
the army and navy under the false
p%retense that it was necessary. Their
stock argument is that it is patriot
ISM They are playing on every pre-
judice and passion of the American
people,"
With 25 of the biggest papers in the
nation, judiciously distributed, keep
ing up a constant propaganda in a
certain direction it is not necessary
for the big poison syndicate to buy
the other papers. They assume the
big papers know the dope and fol-
low their lead, hoping perhaps, to
some day grab n few crumbs. TINT fall
from the masters TALES.
PEOPLE MUST OWN PAPERS.
This exposure not only justifies the
term kept press but corroborates