COMBATING DISLOYALTY.

Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 72, 13 September 1917, Page 3

COMBATING DISLOYALTY.

The following reference to the manner in which those expressing disloyal sentiments are dealt with in the tJnited States is contained in a private letter received from America:—"The Government, now that the war step has been taken, are handling those who utter a disloyal sentence, even lightly or in jest, in a manner astonishing to those who before the'declaration of war openly rejoiced at every misfortune, real imagined, or invented, thatbefel the Allies. A vigorous censorship was in active operation, and when the time came the Federal Government knew where to look for the enemy. One venomous paper made haste to change its name, and now is quite innocuous. Another paper, which had a crowd every morning reading its blazoned bulletins of German 'victories,' and whose German readers viewed tlio passer-by with exultant loooks, has become quite loyal, and no one stops to look for its bulletins, which have now been discontinued. A school teacher was suspended for uttering a criticism, and two voung men were hurried to prison for disloyal utterances in spite of disavowal."