It is true that since the war began much of our news has come through cables controlled by the Allies; but Americans have too much common sense to accept such reports as final.  News from biassed sources is always accepted with reservation, and not fully believed unless confirmed from independent sources.  Furthermore, Americans have never lacked for first-hand information from Germany.  Direct wireless reports from your country to several stations in America have given us a valuable check on cable reports.  German papers come to us regularly, and are continually and extensively quoted.  Germany has sent special agents to this country to represent her side of every issue.  The speeches and writings of these agents have been published repeatedly and at length in almost every paper in our country from the Atlantic to the Pacific.  American correspondents in Germany and in the war-zone have told as much as your censors would permit concerning what they saw of Germany and Germany’s army.  Many Americans have returned from Germany during the war, and have published their experiences and impressions.  Some of them have seen your army at work, suffered from its inhumanity, and been subjected to outrages and indignities by the civil officials of your Government.  Others were dined and honoured as notable guests and given unusual opportunities for seeing as much as your officials wanted them to see.  Both have offered valuable first-hand testimony as to the behaviour of the German nation at war.  Your university professors and other prominent citizens of your country have written us circular and private letters without number, presenting Germany’s arguments in every conceivable form.  Your Ambassador and other officials of your Government have been most active in keeping first-hand information before the American public.  Thousands of your reservists, unable to cross the sea in safety, remain in this country to talk and write in behalf of their Fatherland.

In addition to all this, Germany’s cause has been most vigorously championed by many Germans and German-Americans long resident in America.  Muensterberg and others have published numerous articles and books in Germany’s favour.  Every possible plea to justify Germany’s position has been enthusiastically spread abroad by the German-American press, and with that love of “fair play” which is a widely-recognised characteristic of Americans, even those papers which believe Germany responsible for the war and its worst horrors, have printed volumes of material from pro-German authors in order that the whole truth might be known by a full and free discussion of both sides of every question.  I have read many pro-German articles in the New York Times, the New York Sun, the Outlook, and other papers and magazines opposed to German policy—­articles by Muensterberg, Kuno Franke, Von Bernstorff, Dernburg, and other staunch defenders of Germany.  The columns of our papers are freely open to every authoritative champion of