Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 40, Number 30, 16 December 1914 — Page 6

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 16, 1914.

IUFF CONDEMNS BRITISH FOR NEWS SUPPRESSION

Says Government Keeps People Ignorant of Actual Progress of War in Europe Censures Method of Winning Russia and Japan as Allies Recalls Efforts to Crush Attempts of Americans to Gain Liberty.

BY EDGAR ILIFF. The criticisms here set forth are upon the British ministry or government and not the English people. When a criticism is passed upon our disgraceful and humiliating fiasco in Mexico, that criticism is against President Wilson and Secretary Bryan and not the great humane and loving heart of the American people. And yet in a democracy like ours the follies and blunders of our representatives make us responsible as a nation. The British government has made a record of evil no less removed than Kngland's wonderful growth into a great sea-power. It has been said by an English historian that England's vast possessions and her control of the high seas represent a thousand looted cities and the continued thievery of her kings. Her policy has been based upon three cardinal points: The sup pression of truth; the dissemination of lies under the guise of diplomacy; and the lavish use of British gold. That she still pursues this policy goes without saying, and In this day of the newspaper, "the tongue of the world," sho shows her greatest weakness in her hour of travail. She keeps the truth from her people, thereby destroying national unity. She scatters words of slander and contempt for her foes, thereby weakening her state of preparedness for the evil day. She boasts of her hoarded gold-and her commercial supremacy, thereby nursing the old delusion that destroyed Rome, Carthage, Tyre and Sidon, and the great monarchy of Xerxes. She boasts now in this wise: "We have

the money and can in time exhause all the treasuries of the earth. Wait." Fights Through Allies. The British government has another time-honored policy. It has always fought with and through allies. It procured allies by the use of the three methods named above: By the suppression of truth; by the scattering of pious falsehoods; and by the use of gold to buy the services of mercenary troops. And never before In her history has England used these methods so openly and unblushingly as now. She has made an ally of Russia, who is her natural, racial and geographical enemy, and an enemy whom she most hates and fears. She has made an. ally of Japan, her natural, racial, Insular and sea-power enemy, an enemy either she or the United States will have to reckon with sooner or later, because Japan expects to lay the true foundations of her greatness upon the Pacific ocean. Her expansion will demand the Philippines and the Hawaiian Islands. Japan now is almost :is powerful in the Pacific as Kngland is on the Atlantic, and her continued supremacy will demand more coaling stations and more pos

sessions. As Japan's and Russia's lines of advance are convergent they are natural allies, and they may yet join hands to loot American possessions and gobble up India, Australia, Hongkong and China. Delusion Grasps Country. That Kngland is the victim of a delusion as old as the days of Xerxes and his millions of men and mountains of gold is apparent to all who study th progress or downfall of nations in the light of natural, universal law, beyond whose decree there is no appeal. Her policy of .self-deception and her reliance upon the

fable of Midas is her weakness and may be the fatal path toward the destruction of the Empire. It has ever been an iron law that a united people like the Greeks of the Athenian republic, or more like the Americans in their war with England In 1776, are always a power as seven

seen, whipped the English troops to a finish, the British government suppressed the facts. The English people never heard of the battle of Concord, Lexington, Trenton, and Saratoga until years had passed. English historians had to come to the American archives to get the truth. John Wesley Protested. So indignant was John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist church, and one of England's greatest men, that he publicly protested against the cruel slanders of Americans. He had visited the colonies and he knew whereof he spoke. Wesley was promptly suppressed under penalty of prison, the hangman's noose, or exile. England with pious, free and shameful effrontery, openly bargained with Catherine of Russia for an army of Russian conVlcts to send across the Atlantic to fight the American colonists. The money was counted out. King George the Third wrote to her in his own hand. "My dear sister Kitty, I want your friendly help and I will pay you handsomely in good coin of the realm." Edmund Burke, one of England's

to one against money and the spirit

less battalions and armies money can j greatest men, said, "1 can't sleep for hire or buy. England with a thousand! thinking of these Russian savages

ships and an army of hireling troops could not subdue the ragged and barefoot patriots of '76. As recently as October 28, 1911, the English government made a semiofficial statement upon the military efficiency of Germany. Briefly stated the report was this: "The German artillery is out of date and very slow and Ineffective in methods of firing. It is so inferior that it can have no pretentions to measure itself against the French artillery. German dirigibles and aeroplanes are very poor. The German army, in spite of all boasts and self-confidence, does not present any signs of superiority and in many ways does not rise to the level of second-rate. The race for wealth in Germany has almost destroyed the martial valor of the "people and really what is needed is for the German army to disband and go home and give everybody a needed rest. This weakness of the German nation can only be set down to the gross ignorance of the people." Censor Works Overtime.' Now think of that kind of dope being sent broadcast through the columns of the London Times to a great people like the English. No wonder that the British press-censor is now working over time to keep the real truth about German's artillery and aeroplanes from the public. No wonder the British government "requests" Wilson and Bryan to "tell it not Gath, publish it not in the streets of Arkelon," if they find out anything derogatory to English power. No wonder that Wilson and Bryan, "strictly neu

tral," suppressed the news of the destruction of the British superdreadnought, the Audacious, for six weeks! What a crowning triumph in American diplomacy and statecraft! In the American Revolution, the English government pursued the same policy. It studiously scattered among the English people at home the statement that the American colonists were barbarians, cannibals, and less civilized than the bloodthirsty Indians England urged to massacre American settlers. It was commonly believed in England that Americans killed and scalped all prisoners, used poisoned bullets and were all outlaws and desperadoes. To the English people Washington was far worse than the bloody Villa is to us. If the hired soldiers of England burned a peaceful town and ravished a lot of defenseless women, they rang all the church bells in London. If the Americans with their long rifles, and the best marksmanship the world has ever

being sent to destroy the finest group of people on the face of the globe." Why did Catherine of Russia fail to send these ruffians to America? Listen. Frederick the Great, a German who loved liberty so much that he sheltered the hated Voltaire, said

"No." He put a stop to hireling

troops. England got no Russian mercenaries. Uses English Historian. In speaking of this most atrocious and shameful . use of England's hired allies, I am using no less an authority than the English historian who has written the finest and fairest history of the American Revolution, Sir George Otto Trevelyan. He condemns it as the most debauched and shameful affair in the history of the world. Engladn, he says, paid agents to gather in by force or kidnapping the thieves, thugs, drunkards, seducers, rapists, criminals, and the dregs and the scum of Europe, to send across the waters to fight her own children and to expose to the tender mercies of these worthless dogs the most refined and civilized people on earth. England then tried to force Holland to give her soldiers for the American campaign but the Dutch replied in these memorable words: "As long as we love liberty, we will never take up arms to enslave a people as ardent lovers of liberty as we are." England then tried coercion upon Ireland, demanding a force of ten thousand soldiers to fight America.

Irish patriots everywhere exclaimed,

"No! The cause of America is the cause of Ireland!" Germans Help America. The army roster of the American Revolution shows the names of thousands of Irishmen and Germans who fought and died for liberty on Ameri

can soil. They were not allies hut patriots. The sufferings of the settlers in New Jersey far suppassed the miseries of the Belgians today. The English allies, the Hessians, destroyed every

thing and turned the inhabitants out In the rigors of a very cold winter. There was no Red Cross society. There was no way to appeal to other nations for succor. Thousands perished from cold and starvation and many men, women and children wandered Into the forests, there to be tomahawked by the Indians who fought that they might get British "fire water." During our Civil war, the English government tried to keep the English people In ignorance of the true state of affairs in the United States. Thousands of English people believed that the North was a gang of blood-thirsty tyrants trying to crush the South. In 1863, Henry Ward Beecher was sent to England to enlighten the English masses. So nobly did he defend us that the English working people came over to our side and stood as one man for the integrity of our institutions. John Wesley tried to do the same in his day but the government of aristocracy was too strong for him. Today the English people are kept in the dark. The press is gaged. Irish newspapers are suppressed. In Canada it is a crime to have a paper on

your person wherein sympathy ts expressed for Germany. The English people have a natural abhorrence for the Russian-Japanese alliance. No

man was more popular in London than the German ambassador. Why are there no uprisings in England voicing national approval of this war upon Germany? Why are the English common people so luke-warm? Rightly informed the English people always stand for liberty and humanity. But what can they do under a rigorous government that makes it a crime to tell the truth?

Milton's Social News

The mercury registered 14 below i

zero at Tbeo Crist's home, and 10 below at O. H. Beeson's home Monday night. Mrs. ?JfH. Murley was a Cambridge City visitor Tuesday morning.

Miss Lula Faucett was the guest of i

Mrs. Thomas Bradway at Dublin, Sunday. N Mrs. John Kellam and daughter Miss Ruby Kellam were Richmond visitors Tuesday. Hiram Crook shipped his cattle to Indianapolis Tuesday morning. Emerson Gause was home from Day

ton, 0., to spend over Sunday. ! The Christian church Sunday school ! and the public schools at Bentonville, j will unite in their Christmas entertain-!

ment. It will be held on Christmas eve. The cantata is entitled Santa Claus. Jr. Mrs. Jennie Russard of Trenton, Mo., is visiting her uncle Dr. Sweney

and family. Mrs. Bussard has been Inj Ohio visiting relatives: Mss Hazel j Hoch, who also has been a guest of i

her uncle Dr. Sweney and family, left Saturday for her home at Los Angeles, Cal. Park Hess was home from Rich

mond to spend over Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Gause. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Freeman of Bentonville, will celebrate their fifteenth wedding anniversary Saturday, Dec. 26. A Christmas dance will be9 given Christmas night at the Farmers Bank hall by several young men. Mrs. Frank DuOranrut and Mrs.

Oliver Wallace were Richmond visitors Tuesday. The offering for missions at . the open meeting of the C. W. B. M. Sunday morning amounted to $14.85. The several schools in the township will observe Christmas in some pleasant manner with program and tree. The Woman's Cemetery Association met with Mrs. Jane Sills Monday night. The ladles decided to postpone their box social until some time In February. A report was given by the treasurer, Mrs. D. H. Warren: Balance on hand from October, 1913, $28.75; received during the year by canvass of the town, $21.40; by donations, $13: by dues. 115.25: makine a

total of $78.40. Expenditures for the year beginning October 1. 1913 and ending October 1. 1914, $51.75; leaving a balance at the close of the year, October 1, 1914, $26.65. The United Poultrymen made an exhibit of poultry at the poultry show at Marion with the following result:

Buff Orpingtons First and second on cockerel, first and second on pullet, second on pen. Black Orpington Second on hen, third on cockerel, third and fourth on pullet, second on pen.

Every member of the family of Sir Roper Lethbiidge. of England, has gone to the war or to training for it the men to fight and the women to nurse.

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