The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-28
INDUSTRIAL KINC5'
 CALLED DE.SPOTS
Senator Says lndustrialiSm Bad As MiIitariSm-PreSS
 Commercialized, Report

NEW YORK, Nov 1.-Two new senators from northwestern states delivered addresses tonight in New York. One. Henrik Shipstead, farmer labor. Minnesota, attacked the mod ern industrial king" as war making despot while the other, Eur ton K Wheeler, democrat, Montana asserted that the channels of public ity in America have been conner cialized Both spoke at a dinner given in honor of Oswald Garrison Willard editor of The Nation.
 Senator Shipstead said there is a growing suspicion of parliamentary governments all over the world.
 "ParlG mentary governments came to life and power succeeding mih- tary and political despotism,' he said "because these had dispossessed the producers of wealth and rewarded the destroyers of wealth, the wal makers After destroying the old ! fashioned political and military des not, we have substituted for these . new despot. the industrial king This [ new King is also 9 war maker, sac rificing the producer and builder fir order to reward the destroyer. He will use parliamentary governments as his instrument if he finds them plfant tools but will discard them for Relationships if necessary to accom- plish his purpose
 Scores Industrialism.
 ITO the military and rule by di- vine right despot, treaties between governments were merely scraps of paper To the industrial despot, struggling for a place in the sun, they were solemn contracts. But after achieving his place in the sun open covenants of peace openly ar rived at as for instance, the terms of the armistice, signed with beaten foe, immediately became mere scraps of paper The militarism that had been source of danger and war was now become a source of safety and peace and must therefore be pre- served. One is as immoral as the other-and the invasion of the Ruhr Is as immoral as the invasion of Bel gium. Why are we so shocked at the one and so indifferent at the other?
 Industrial kings sacrifice nations and governments on the poker table of international politics when iron mines, coal mines oil wells. land and trade are the stakes. This game is destroying the white mans civiliza- tion."
 Senator Wheeler told his audience that in both the United States and in Europe public opinion is largely "a manufactured article-the output of propaganda factories" Asserting that the day of the great personal editors-the Greeleys. the Danas, the Storys and the Wattersons-is gone. Senator Wheeler declared that with a very few notable exceptions the magazines and newspapers are "either owned outright by the great industrial and financial interests or controlled through the advertising patronage"
 RapS Propaganda.
 This is not criticism of the pub fishing business" he added but an indictment of the system. The pub lication of newspapers and magazines IS a business and is run as other business is run, for profit. This prof. it may be secured from general ad vertising patronage or it may como from some economic advantage se- cured through the control of public opinion
 T think I am justified in asserting that the greatest menace to the peace and prosperity of the nations today is the flood of propaganda that fills the public press and distorts public opinion,
 "The real trouble in Europe is that the channels of publicity-the public press-are damned up and only those things which the ruling class in each country desires to publish is allowed to get out
 Tn the United States the channels of publicity have been commercial ized This is true not only of the press, but of the platform, and in some cases the pulpit"