Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 289, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1918 — German Newspaper Is One of Most Pernicious Agencies of War [ARTICLE]

German Newspaper Is One of Most Pernicious Agencies of War

By Dr. P. A. DICKIE

of American Defeme Society

Quite frequently it has been stated that the German newspapers should be retained for what they can do in teaching patriotic principles to our American ( ?) citizens who only speak German; and this reason has been advanced by intelligent American men and women. That.the principles of American patriotism can be taught by means of the German language is as reasonable to expect as that the principles of Christianity can be imparted through the agency of satan. • ' There is another reason popular among a certain lot of people when they want an excuse for their Advocacy of the retention of the German newspapers. This has almost become a joke on account of its frequent use. It is that of the old German Kdy whom the party knows—strange to say it is never an old man—who cannot be deprived of the great comfort her paper is to her. . . Those who are opposing the suppression of the German newspapers, whatever may be the reasons they giye, are, whether they realize it or not, virtually stabbing our boys in the back who are fighting our battles for us and risking their lives. t . To permit without a protest the existence of a propaganda of which ft is generally known that the German newspaper is one of the biggest and most pernicious agencies we have to contend against is to lengthen the war and increase the number of our bqys who will not come hack to us.