Yellow+Journalism

Dear Editor,(1915) We as a nation need to join Europe’s war. It is our duty as America, being the most powerful of all countries, to assist our European friends. Let us too not forget //The Lusitania.// Those Krouts think they can pay for the lives lost, but I say they pay blood for blood, brother for brother. Our own European ancestors are fighting the German madness! Have we all not heard of Kaiser Wilhelm’s men, and their ruthless marches through Belgium? Not only do America’s people support England and their allies, our economy does to. The Germans wish to bully us with blockades and keep us from our trading partners. What would all America’s businesses do without the support and patronage of our European brothers? And that, dear sir, is why we need to support //our// allies. Dear Editor, (1915) America needs to mind its own. Some argue of the blockades and seizures of American ships bound for Allies, but have our British ‘allies’ not done the same? They too seize ships to prevent their enemy from receiving supplies. All of these stories of German atrocities are over done, and completely over exaggerated by yellow journalists and war hawk politicians. And what, I dare ask, do we possibly have to gain from European conflict? Land? No. Money? Most likely not. The only thing we will get is tombstones and body counts. We have no purpose to join a //European// war.