Enforced peace; . ur publicity plans. Iwas reminded as I sat there of Burke, standing in theCommons, pointing to the reporters in the gallery, andsaying: There sit the Fourth Estate, and throughthem I speak to all the miUions of English-speakingpeople. There are two or three thousand peoplegathered here, but through the newspaper men sittinghere at these desks have gone out over the wires mes-sages and cables, information and news, which havebeen on the first page of every newspaper in the world,and to-morrow morning with President Wilsonsaddress we shall have first-page position in every im-p
Enforced peace; . ur publicity plans. Iwas reminded as I sat there of Burke, standing in theCommons, pointing to the reporters in the gallery, andsaying: There sit the Fourth Estate, and throughthem I speak to all the miUions of English-speakingpeople. There are two or three thousand peoplegathered here, but through the newspaper men sittinghere at these desks have gone out over the wires mes-sages and cables, information and news, which havebeen on the first page of every newspaper in the world,and to-morrow morning with President Wilsonsaddress we shall have first-page position in every im-portant newspaper in the United States and the world. We have undertaken to be not a pubUcity committeein the ordinary sense of tr3dng to get from newspapersspace that they sometimes give but grudgingly, but havegone to newspapers and great periodicals of Americaand said, Here is a great international movement ofthe highest importance to every thinking man in everycountry in Christendom, and this committee wants to. Copyright, L/idtr I u< d ^ Lnur ood HERBERT S. HOUSTON, Treasurer and Chairman of Committee on Information, League toEnforce Peace ENFORCED PEACE ? 153 cooperate with the newspapers and publishers and givethem what they want. That is the pohcy which yourcommittee has followed from the beginning. Let me illustrate how that has worked out with theChambers of Commerce referendum. That referendumwas submitted and we followed it up with a plan oflocalizing our news. Judge Taf t prepared a most in-teresting statement that was sent to the president ofevery Chamber of Commerce in the country. We sentthis statement also from headquarters in New York toevery paper; for example, to Richmond, Va., and whenMr. John Stewart Bryan sent a reporter to the Chamberof Commerce he got, as local news, this letter from JudgeTaf t, supplemented by an interview with the presidentof the Chamber of Commerce in Richmond. And thathappened all over the United States. I could havebrought h
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