The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 7, 1918, Page 16

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It is only in the long run that its effects become perceptible.”” But over all, in my opinion, publicity should be given to the letter by Ivy Leée, John D.’s pub- licity agent, as brought out in the hearing before the committee on in- ternal relations. Those of us who have had opportunity to follow these hearings or possess the subsequent report, will recall that this letter was the thing that won over the Rocke- feller family, although it is replete with illustrations of how to fool the public and still preserve their re- spect. - The letter stated that ‘“men are not led by reason, but by phrases. Suc- cess in life depends upon the art of getting yourself believed in.”” Mark that phraseology! Not being worthy of “being believed in,” but getting believed in, whether worthy or not. And Ivy. Leé and young John D. squirmed under the revelation of how they fooled the public into believing that the laboring men were thugs and-thieves, and that the leaders got great sums of money by persecuting the kind-hearted and over-benevolent mine owners. : OLD CATCH-WORDS PROVED TO BE LIES There is no doubt but that this literature, which was afterwards ad- mitted to be untrue, poisoned the minds of honest men, particularly among university people. “Nobody Home” Gary, Minn. Editor Nonpartisan Leader: I am a member of the Nonpartisan league, and since I joined in the fall of 1916 have been getting your valu- able paper, the Leader, regular every week. I &ssure you it is by far the most welcome paper we- have ever taken. It’s just like news . from home. Every issue is worth its sub- scription price. I read it from start to finish and never found any read- ing matter so interesting. ' It deals with straight facts and is not afraid to tell the truth and expose the wrong doers. O you ivory heads of Fergus Falls, Lake City and other'towns of Minne- sota, have you gone south for the winter, or have you gone to sleep? You are mot on your- job, letting President Townley of the Nonparti- san league slip away olear to Buffalo, N. Y., and nobody there to turn the wrench on the water hydrant. He even went as far as New York and spoke, and they mever even .offered to rotten- egg him. His audience there you lost outright again. Of course Buffalo and New York are not in it with these big cities here in Minnesota when it comes to turning the hose on, and rotten egging the farmers. - » He even .went to>Washington and had a conversation with our presi- dent. There you lost out again, you blockheads, Mr. Wilson never used - By the way, I think Ivy Lee is on our national committee of defense, as are many of those who have long op- pressed the people by ‘“cornering” material human necessities. Do you not recall “the good old days” of the procession of the ‘‘wide-awakes’” and their capes -and torches and their catch-words, and phrases? Nearly all are now admitted to have been lies, but they worked better than reason did. - 2 “Vote as you shot.’\’ ‘““The foreigner pays the tax.” “The full dinner pail.” . “I would not say every Democrat was a horse thief, but every horse thief ie a Democrat.”. 3 Angd all that sort of silly slush that was accepted by the rank and file as “doing the business,” whether we must suffer afterwards, even as we are doing today. The day of the catch-word and phrase is not gone yet, but I believe the people are be- coming more suspicious than of yore. The unreliability of the newspaper, controlled by the great financial in- terests, is becoming a fixed beliet among the more intelligent. The head lines are an excellent illustra- tion. .Often the matter below the head line does not bear out the lie state above. “Shadow Huns” just now holds the stage and its author apparently spends his time in the in- terval between the “big mnoise” that follows one upon the other, in coin- ing new catch-words and phrases. Some of us, incapable of reasoning, possibly, believe that the most dang- erous Hup that casts his shadow over the libertyof the American people is the Hun {8at goes about, like Mark Twain’s “‘Cplonel Sellers,” hurrahing for the “Ol¢ Flag and an appropria-_ tion.” ! such language as “Socialist,” “pro- German,” “traitor,” and all the bad names that your gang calls us. I want to say every member of the Nonpartisan league around ‘here is proud of it, and I am sure that the more Big 'Biz knocks, the better we stick. JANS ANDERSON. 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