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Show r- mthkHm - ;a THE CITIZEN 4 i in which foreign-enter some form of for a closer and more wholesome association of the two leading English speaking nations of the world, today, than ever before; but the have the biggest say, and participate in all the petty realization of all this is not dependant upon the rewriting of our broglios, that Europe will be wrecked. It appears futile to attempt to stop or to urge tfc to early history, or upon the expurgation of the brilliant stories of our ganda be stopped. But its growth and its insistenoi1 early American achievements from our school books. will arouse all patriotic Americans to the dire necesn; There are certain influences in England and in this country constantly working to bring about an absolute governmental union of after America first and remaining free from all fois-the two nations. Usually this propaganda, which is carried forward ment, that the nation may continue to function onf more or less surreptitiously, as circumstances may dictate, is often cent as a free country, as it has during the past cent? a given impetus by British or American statesmen, who overstep the of its existence. It is one thing to have gained naf bounds of political conventionalities and grow gushingly persuasive and respect of the world, and quite another thing to! in their cant about what sort of attitude the two peoples should mainenlisting for the fight, now being waged, to create tain towards each other. Too often it is done by stealth and through the world, which seems to be the one paramount ideaJ: the means of insidious propaganda, as in the textbook cases herein propagandists of the hour. With the genesis of the f j noted, in which the patriotism, the love of country and the ideals of which is being erected all manner of foreign entanNvXICl our children would be stunted by picturing our Revolutionary heroes debt repudiations, and kindred socialistic and monoicL ts who wantonly rebelled against state proposals, centered in the dead League of Nath as a band of robbers and is some reason for the foreign preachments gaining the mandates of a benevolent mother nation. pr For America the late Andrew Carnegie was the most outspoken cause the Wilsonian idea was very strong, at one tin?moi for a British-America- n union; for the alleged mother country the of Americans who are always easily lead. It prr. pat late Cecil Rhodes was a consistent worker and his place, today, is psychological trend that eventually passed away, insor.(s cc benig more or less ably filled by Lord Northcliffe and other nobles, majority was concerned. But it is still as sacred asi and perhaps a few mere English citizens. Lord Northcliffe would host of purblind reformers and to certain shrewd merely extinguish American independence and substitute, therefore, would sell out the country to gain their own political - With this tirade of form of English government together with its kingly the present-da- y foreign propaganda, so viruleij'- status and its manifold attributes of royalty, well knowing that in so and so persistent in character, being constantly prea js ultra-riconistic foreign interests throughout the nation, it becltQ doing he is currying favor with a certain clan of American who long for the pomp and glory of the titled days of the dark ages. mount duty of all true Americans to start counter In an American issue of the London Times, published July 4, keep our counry free from foreign entanglements, fcj 1919, Lord Northcliff urged the following for America : polution by an overflow of low class humanity and cor Mobolize the press (this has been partially successful), the races and free in all other essentials looking to the; church, the stage and the cinema; press into active service the whole the republic. iry I educational systems (this is being attempted today) and root the c THE FALLACY OF SMOKELESS-SMO1- " spirit of good will in the homes, the universities, public and high ie tn schools, and primary schools. Also provide for subsidizing the best the c has come home The fallacy of smokeless-smok- e men to write books (consider Wells and others of his ilk) and ely $ renewed vigor and vitality this winter. articles on special subjects, to be published in cheap editions or distesc A direct charge of political preference in the a tributed free. New books should be added, particularly in the private were abatement mf.I schools histories and textbooks should be revised. manipulator of out much vaunted smoke due . And all this for but one purpose and that to win the United by George D. Reyser, of the mayor s advisory comm: States back to a closer political association, which, they hope; may City Federation of Womens Clubs, at the Civic Ce eventually unite the countries under the British jack. Think it over. day afternoon may, indeed, be well taken. Given thr such an appointment, it is hardly- to be believed thatnc in other than a political investiture. THE EPIDEMIC OF FOREIGN PROPAGANDA. ..ion o But the fact still remains and will obtain until The United States having evidenced a disposition to sponsor an of soft coal has expired in a furnace or over the g& association of nations, on a limited scale in the interest of worlds stove that such coal will send forth a munificent bu btfje naval when in the at smoke the obscure of to black the volume treaties sun, Washington negotiated peace through relfar limitation conference, it is patent to all patriotic Americans that the in a locality like Salt Lake where wind currents ptyj. flood of foreign propaganda, inaugurated during that historic even.t, other in circles, owing to the peculiar configuration f 8 6 is to be continued indefinitely. In fact there never has been, in the hills. bett $12 of believes that a And Stewart Commissioner such of the by proselyting nation, widespread campaign history lowed t foreign-languag- e elimination and in smoke a doubtful sum to spend foreign lecturers, foreign writers, foreign satraps hefty at the most, only partially eliminates. Perhaps newspapers than is now being waged. is right and perhaps it would smack more of Christa.-asidFor instance : American people are being told unless they conthis sum to provide work for expert rlclfvoca( sent to Europes repudiating $11,000,000,000 in cash borrowed from us in good faith on our part at least that the old continent will be war who are now subjects of public good will rafnje(j antics contribute to expert absolutely ruined. We arc being told that unless we unleash our purse strings and and accomplished far less. The Citizen is firmly of the opinion that nly make further loans totaling nearly as many more billions, that Europe will sink beneath a tide of economic dispair from which she may turned into a volatile gas at the mine and piped1 domestic consumption, will we have a truly siuokdSchwa never recover. is as unobtainable as the moon. It may flaws, The people are being told that unless they consent to lowering a the tariff rates to let foreign nations flood our markets with the fraught with picturesque possibilities to the products of their cheap labor, that Europe and Asia will be ruined. the smokeless expert; but more common persons ur hai They are being told that unless the United States goes back it amounts to nothing more than a mere repditirt cher to the days of unrestricted immigration and permits millions of of an unsophisticated puppy dog baying the 'Uflnation. ?nces bolsheviki tainted and ignorant workers, white, brown and yellow, Night. to flood the country that the world will be ruined. the cnforcecs of this expert sn fbreig ' They arc being told that unless the United States consents to would like to have the police force take action arante world-governme- nt, ' ? . . cut-throa- h, . C 0111111 e smoke-eliminati- less-smo- on ke ami-sirostr- And-perhap- s |