içis
1916
Denmark, exports and imports Netherlands exports and imports
Norway, exports and imports Sweden, exports and imports
$63,103,962 101,892,382 32,401,556 65,880,749
$44,046,752 72,469,008
37,259-135 43,156,027
"FATHERLAND, THE"—The first blows of the war fell on August 4, 1914, and on August io the first issue of "The Fatherland" made its appearance with its motto, "Fair Play for Germany and Austria-Hungary". Its editors were George Sylvester Viereck, Frederick F. Schräder and Louis Sherwin. It sprang into being spontaneously as a protest against the daily press controled by Lord Northcliffe and Wall Street, which from the first day of hostilities ruthlessly espoused the cause of the Allies and inaugurated a campaign of misrepresentation of the facts and issues of the conflict never equalled in the history of journalism. It was the only paper east of the Alleghanies in the English language to fight tooth and toe-nail for fair play. That it filled the bill was demonstrated by its immediate leap into popularity. In spite of abuse and ridicule, threats of violence and judicial persecution, it stuck to its guns. After three issues Mr. Sherwin dropped out ; the others stuck to their posts and from all parts of the United States helping hands were extended to aid the paper in its fight It was officially ruled out of Canada ; it was denounced and threatened and "exposed" ; it soon became persona non grata at the White House and State Department, but it stuck to its cause, gained friends in Congress, was extensively copied on the continent, and stirred the British Parliament by its fearless stand for the cause of the Central Powers. It extended its usefulness by publishing a number of important pamphlets on the issues of war, and with a circulation greater than that of the New York "Herald", in the course of its two years' existence has exercised an influence vastly out of proportion to its originally contemplated scope. Its most effective blows were struck against the Wall Street-Morgan ring, the munition trust and the secret pro-English propaganda, financed and fostered by Andrew Carnegie, Cecil Rhodes and the disguised Britishers around J. P. Morgan, in the President's cabinet, the New York newspaper offices and in other responsible and influential positions. It led off the fight against Elihu Root for the Republican nomination and took the lead in contesting the ambitions of Theodore Roosevelt to be nominated as the Knownothing candidate for the Presidency. It exposed the secret motives behind international policies, and owing no obligations to any party or set of persons, it struck defiantly at hypocricy and falsehood wherever they showed themselves. It believed that the cause of the Central Powers was a just one and it never despaired of the triumph of the civilization for which they stand.
FRANCE'S FRIENDSHIP FOR THE UNITED STATES—At the
famous banquet to the French and English commission to raise a war loan by unburdening $500,000,000 of bonds of both countries upon the credulous tax payers of the United States, William D. Guthrie, a Wall Street corporation lawyer "educated in Paris and England" ("Who's Who in America"), solemnly proposed that the United States create a credit for the French republic for $772,000,000, "to be repaid when France can do so," as a reward for France's friendship for the American colonies and
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