"TRAITOR EDITORS"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 35, 5 November 1917, Page 5

"TRAITOR EDITORS"

THE GERMAN PRESS IN AMERICA

ENEMY'S ALLIES

(By Hamilton Fyfo in the "Daily Mail") New York, August 20. gince I came to the United States a. month ago I have watched a change oomo over the popular feeling towards the German-language newspapors published here. Theso journals m a great many cities ot the Union. Their avowed purposo is to give those recent arrivals who do not yet know English, a chance of reading tho news. Little by little a belief is gaining ground that they formed part of a to Germanise America. Twenty resoluto men and women coulddo much to leaven one hundred millions it their enersies wero skilfully directed. Bismarck said once that the most significant hint for tho student °/ th y was tho predominance of the English language in the United States. Is it too fantastic to suppose that a plotmay hfl.T existed with the aim of supplanting Lnt of Muenee have oven said: openly in their adopted daT would come when the United Statca would bo more German than anything eke What more likely than that efforts should be . made both to P r German-speaking immicranb from losing ablest profess to wmd S"i!Twi<» «:rr; language newspapers /were foiinded S large numbers in pursuance of a. *■„ _f "npaccful penetration. Cer S the attitude of these now proves most of them to be Gemait and not American in their mil. "f'olocne Gazette has tactlessly! called them Germanv'fi Qfotes We may be sure tnac .t in. kout S«j ;» & In New York they have to search with the lantern of Diogenes to find a young man able and also ? & and who does not -seek safety behind a woman e pettiooosacsrs'sas^ tU England CV fights'because she wants to firoy Germany's con—, Franco because she wanto to grtSSSTth? V£ S'ATSiAaUd have always of tt«r sS'b-E 1 s*" f*sr,iT MfecK nf American ships aixl SOKn ®F ~ Viirone will secure us place at the Conference, it ca«no tlm Allies from getting it lu 6i »" Zeitnng," Chicago.

In nn article .* &n^ d sub«b JT«W W^l^u^^rWs of "the almost legendary faith Hwi, SC Unti? U |' ll 'w days ago tho mass of the» people did not know what the Gennatl papora were saying, how thevwerflte {raying tho country, which had them their citizenship. , Thanks to tu attention drawn to their dwloyal . tnde, thante also to Senator orous denunciation of traitor edit > there has come suddenly y e ® g^ 10 " ! (lancer and a demand for its em> , wssion is tAw of (his demand. What done is not yet clear, but it K dear that unless something » something illegal thU be. Tho P»» temper is being sorely tried.