Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-29

two days after these cables were in
the hands of the American and Cana
dian governments, | heard the officials
of these governments come out and
tell the press no facts had been ascer-
tained TO prove the sinkings had re-
saltcd frcm submarines.
What was gained by such censor
ship?
4 story is told of one of the famous
pCace demonstrations in Madison Gar
lcls: but in this case the bitter was
"bi.tcn" in one of the most comical
episodes of the war Labor'9 coopcra-
ton in n demonstration against war
was desperately needed. The organic
, era well known operator of Wall
street, who has since served in Allan
ta on another Scorc-represcnted to
his paymaster that labor delegates
were poor men. He would need $1,000
each to pay their expenses to and from
all parts OF the continent He was
given a fund of S250,000. The labor
delegates came all right and in good
faith. The peace demonstration went
off with q bang; but the Wall Street
operator pocketcd the whole $25O,OOO;
and his hackers could not sue; so when
lie fell afoul of the law on another
score, they let him take his medicine
and go to prison. The press knew this
but did rot expose it.
The Black Troops On the Rhine.
OF a like character was, q demon
stration against Black Troops on the
Rhine Now as every war correspond
ent, who cared to know, could know,
the Black Troops of France were not
massed on the Rhine. They were held
in reserve in thousands in secrecy in
the Pyrenees far from the Rhine; but
I'if n correspondent had issued that fact
he would have been contradicted by
another French Bureau OF Misinforma-
ton, buttrcsscd by another German
Bureau of Misinformation; so the fake
demonstration was held in the Madi-
son Gardens against Black Troops on
the Rhine; and from pure lack Of facts
on the part of the public, ended in
riot between Legion Boys and New
York police.
Great are the virtues of censorship
which first suppresses, then colors,
then distorts, then falsifies facts; the
facts are what the public wants.
1t was no doubt wiSe, with the Unit
ed States on the verge of European
war, that inf1amed public opinion
should not force another distracting
war with Mexico; but that hardly JUS
titled the suppression of the facts on
Mexico to such an extent that with
hundreds of thousands. of propaganda
money on tap, which the Mexican
press openly discussed. and advocated,
Mexico, in the name Of independent
cia" and at the beck of factions fight
| ing for power should deluge the
American press with contradictory
statements and play the two great
branches of the American church
Catholic and rotestant-against each
other in a paid campaign of propa-
ganda. 1t was not publicity. It was
colored and often patiently false propa-
ganda. The Catholic party had suf-
fered unspeakably in the twelve years
of revelation succeeding revolution;
but always when their petitions were
forwarded to Washington with afflda-
Wits of priests and nuns, who had been
subjected to torture, that would have
caused shame in the Middle Ages-an
unseen hand stifed these facts coming
out to the public.
Propaganda from Mexico.
Nor did war expediency justify such
neglect of American life and property
that Americans involved in losses in
Mexico were forced to form an Ameri-
can Protective association to get their
own publicity out. Nor did it justify
that American Protective association
being blcd for money to get their