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Show Miscellany Assistant Germans. Senator Sione of Missouri, chairman of the senate commit. too on foreign rela- . tions, sives an official status to one of j the favorite Hps of the pro-German : propaganda when he says : Thero is no shadow of doubt in the j mind of any lnu-llitfent or fair-think- Ing man that thero is a cabal of mat newspapers in this conn try which is seeking to create a condition to coerce the government, of the United Slates Into an at tit tide of host t lit y to one of the belligerent powers. Tho World doubts if a more mendacious statement was ever made upon the floor of the I'nited States senate. Senator Stone know that there is no cabal of grent newspapers to promote war with Germany. He knows thai the crisis In the relai Inns bet ween the I'nited Slates and Germany is wholly of Germany's Ger-many's own making, lie knows that the American newspapers that he now accuses ac-cuses of seeking to coerce the government nf the I'nited States are the newspapers that are loyally supporting President Wilson Wil-son in defense of t he rights, the dignity and the honor of the United States. Nor have these newspapers, except with a few unlmporinnt exceptions, hern advocates nf war with Germany. They have sought to maintain peace with Germany Ger-many so far as Germany permitted peace. In view of l lie persist ently hostile a t-tilude t-tilude of the German government toward ihe United Stales, In view of the wanton massacre of A mer I can citizens and the deliberate acts of war which It has committed com-mitted against t Ids count ry, it is Infamous Infa-mous for a United States senator to attempt at-tempt to fasten the responsibility for this situation upon the patriotic newspapers of the United States and to charge them with t rylng to coere the government into hostilities. Senator Stone heloncs to a coterlo in congress whose sympathies have been notoriously no-toriously pro-German since the beginning of the war. W'e know of no crime committed com-mitted by the Germ a n government nuainst humanity or against American sovereignty for which Hies semi-hvphen-ated statesmen have not had excuses and apologies. We know of no instance in ji!''1' ' l" ''''.''V servedly been on the side of the "United. States. Wha t they have done to uphold American rights and American honor has . heen done under pressure from public opinion and from President Wilson. Senator Stone himself was one of the members of the committee on foreign relations re-lations who opposed the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany. In spite of the fact that the German submarine sub-marine proclamation was in effect a declaration of war against the United States, he urged the president to eat the words of the Sussex ultimatum and declare de-clare to the world that the United States was too cowardly to do what It had warned the German government It must do if the rules of cruiser warfare were again disregarded. The assistant Germans In congress. Democrats and Republicans alike, have made themselves a menace to the safety p.nd honor of this nation. When Senator Stone assails the patriotic press of this country for its loyal support of President Wilson and A merican sovereignty he Is doiner the dirty work of the "German propaganda and giving aid and comfort lo the German government in Its warfare war-fare against the United States. New York World. |