the State’s duty, therefore, to watch over the people’s education and prevent its taking a wrong direction, and it should keep an eye on what the Press, in particular, is doing, for its influence on men is by far the strongest and most penetrating of all, since its action is not transitory but continuous. Its immense importance lies in the uniform and persistent repetition of its teaching. Here, if anywhere, it is the State’s duty not to forget that, whatever it does, must be directed at one aim, and one alone ; it must not be led astray by the will o’ the wisp of so-called “freedom of the Press”, or be persuaded into neglecting its duties and withholding the nourishment, which the nation needs to keep it healthy. It must keep control of that instrument of popular education with absolute determination and place it at the service of the State and the nation.
What the so-called Liberal Press did before the War was to dig a grave for the German nation and the German Reich. We need say nothing about the lying Marxist papers