Neutrality? The crucifixion of public opinion (1916) (14757101686)

Identifier: neutralitycrucif00szin (find matches)
Title: Neutrality? The crucifixion of public opinion
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: (Szinnyey, Stephen Ivor), 1863-1919. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Neutrality Press
Publisher: Chicago, The Neutrality press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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And he struck hard! . . . CHAPTER LI Christian England. On a certain day of January, 1915, an editorial appeared inthe New York Herald under the caption: Deutchlandueber alles. In normal times the New York Herald is one ofthe best all around newspapers printed in America and its edi-tor, Mr. James Gordon Bennett, is known as one of the greatestjournalists in America—but the trend of thought in that edi-torial in its impudence and distortion of facts brands it as sucha grotesque display of editorial asininity that one must wonderhow it happens to emanate from the New York Heralds editorialsanctum. Will the Herald or Sister Pinky answer these questions? What nation fought us in 1812 ? Who burned Washington, D. C. ? Who armed the Indians to murder and scalp settlers of thefar West? Who conspired, plotted, pirated during our RevolutionaryWar? Who built the Alabama? Who defied our Monroe Doctrine in 1889, in Venezuela? Who objected to our fortifications in Panama? 156 N E U T E A LI T Y
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THE GREAT BRITON. The Union Jack napping its folds over every Subject Provinceof England, is the Emblem of Death by Starvation! It is thefamine flag. In India, a3 in Ireland, it is the Ensign of Desolation. NEUTRALITY 157 Whose ambassador is Sir Lionel Garden, the man who daredto insult President Wilson? Who seized the American ships, the John D. Rockefeller,the Brindilla and the Platuria, the Hocking, the Genessee, andother American ships flying the Stars and Stripes bound forneutral ports? Who has been and is right along interfering with our ship-ping, seizing ships, foodstuffs and all other products sold andshipped by the United States citizens to neutral countries? Who is strenuously objecting to the United States buyingand building ships in order to have a merchant marine and arespectable, efficient navy ? Who is disregarding American passports, dragging Americancitizens off the boats flying the Stars and Stripes and puttingAmerican citizens into concentration camps and prisons?W