The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-08
LETTERS TO EDITOR
ANTI-BRITIsH PRopAGANDA

To the Editor of the Age-Herald:
 There has been much said recently about 'the source of anti-British propaganda" and that it should be ferreted out and disclosed" and that government agents should go to some pains to discover the source of it."
 MT. Editor, we hereby offer our services in running down this propaganda. The agents should start in Philadelphia, for it was there July 4, 1776, where this poison began to flow when certain bill of indictment, called the Declaration of Independence, was enunciated and the guilty parties are the 57 fathers of our American independence. Another spring of poison broke forth when Francis Scott Key wrote the "Star-spangled Banner" Another stream of poisonous gas flows which is known as Washington's farewell address. Also, an- other stream of the deadly stuff, still bub- bling, known as the Monroe doctrine All these sources of poison have always been ob- jectionable to the British, as well as to the American anglophile. They call upon us, from time to time, to stop the flow. They ask us to leave the Declaration of Indepen- dence out of our school histories; to tear the third stanza from the Star-Spangled Ban ner'; to scrap Washington's farewell ad- dress and ignore the Monroe doctrine. For several months past this country has been flooded with lot of "mother country'' stuff, and muchetalk of "closer union." Our coun- try is overrun with British lecturers and speakers, papers surfeited with British news, our magazines filled with English pie lures. Practically all our foreign news comes through British channels.
 Recently the people of America stood aghast on learning that British-controed power company so audacious as to think about getting control of an American powder plant But what will they think to learn that the American Book company, which publishes 90 per cent of the school books used in the United States, is British-controle6 publishing house?
 David Hirshfeld, commissioner of accounts in New York, testifying before the committee Investigating the pro-British character of American school books, April IS, 1922, refer ring to the American Book company, said that it was really a British corporations In this he was sustained by Charles Edward Russell, American publicist. As an example of what this British well of poison is doing, we mention some. of the complaints before this commit tee concerning one of these pro British school histories. They complain that the history of the revolution is sighted, only IT pages being devoted to the subject, mention being made of Nathan Hale, Anthony Wayne and others; that single line is given to John Paul Jones; that the battle of Bunker Hill receives only one sentence. And dozen other inconsis- tences are enumerated.
 Now, Mir Editor, if the friends of Great Britain would promote friendship and good will between the countries we would advise them to stop poisoning the American wells. Stop the mouths of their own propagandists, call home their busy-bodies and international meddlers. R, D. GOSS,
 Commander-in- Chief of the Minutemen,
 George Washington Camp No l.
 Birmingham, 929 Alois Avenue, June G. 1922.