As is known, American public opinion at that time had been given a one-sided view of the causes and course of the war, for England, who, immediately after the declaration of war, had cut our Transatlantic cable, held the whole of the Transatlantic news apparatus in her hands. Apart from this, however, our enemies found from the beginning very important Allies in a number of leading American newspapers, which, in their daily issue of from three to six editions, did all they could to spread anti-German feeling. In New York the bitterest attacks on Germany were made by the _Herald_ and the _Evening Telegram_, which were in close touch with France, as well as the _Tribune_ and _Times_, which followed in England's wake; somewhat more moderate were the _Sun_ and the _Globe_; the only neutrals were the _Evening Post_ and the _American_. Outside New York the Press raged against us, particularly in New England and the Middle-Atlantic States. In the South and West we were also baited by the Press, but with considerably less intensity. The only papers which could be called neutral were those of the Hearst Press, which took up an outspoken National-American standpoint, and, in addition, the _Chicago Tribune_, the _Washington Post_, and a few minor newspapers. It was already very significant that papers like the _Boston Transcript_, the _Brooklyn Eagle_, the _Baltimore Sun_, and a few others opened their letter-boxes to anti-German articles, which, it is true, they condemned with fair regularity in their leading articles or editorial notes. Against this campaign, fed systematically and daily with British propaganda information--especially on the subject of German atrocities in Belgium--the small number of papers in the German language, which, moreover, were little heeded by public opinion, and at the head of which stood the old _New Yorker Staatszeitung_ and the courageous weekly _Fatherland_, founded shortly after the outbreak of war by the young German-American, G. S. Vierick, could make but little headway.