The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, December 8, 1919, Page 13

s - and lying impression. o catmg .violence .. - rorism contained ‘vicious attacks on <. ‘President Wilson as author;of virtnal- - 1y a. “seditious” ‘book, . Freedom,” and for alleged .ald, and How F air Is the therary Dlgestp Protest Agamst Anti-Farmer Article Unanswered by Edi- . tor of Eastern Weekly Review : Natlonal Soldlers Home, Tenn.' DITOR Nonpartisan Leader: - Digest of November 1 “has an‘article that proves the Digest ‘to be the tool " of the exploiters. It is either 1gnorant of ‘the: facts or pur- ~posely ' and unrighteously misrepre- sents—or, in plain English—lies. It tells of ‘the closing ‘and end of the Scandinavian American bank and be- rates the Nonpart:san league as a de- ceiver, ete. It gives a picture of A. ® C. Townley and a sketch of his life as 3 “mountebank” and “misleader,” ete. The article’s object is to discredit the League and Townley, its leader. Tet ‘us ask ourselves why the Digest, at ‘such a distance from the activities of ‘the League, goes” out of its way to show such ammosfl;y as to give a false mosity? - Why the willingness to sup- i ‘press facts' it can not be ignorant of, and’ violate the truth? GEORGE D. COLEMAN. " EDITOR'S NOTE: This is one of 8. . large number. of letters we have re- ceived regarding an article in a recent . ‘issue of the Literary Digest, making " a very bitter attack on the League. ‘The article purported: to'be ‘a review of an article in the New York Sun by Edwin C! Hill, headlines and illustra- : : tlons of whlch we reproduced on -page 4 of our issue of November 17, under the heading, “The Limit in Journahstxc Degeneracy—The New: York Sun.” The 'article not only contained the New: York Sun’s gross misrepresenta- ; “tions, but also a number of very crude falsehoods ‘by the Dlg%st 1tself. e .The Literary Why: the ani- ‘After the Sun ‘article appeared a courteous letter was written to _the Sun, calling attention. specifically. to the errors of fact in the article. . We did not even receive the courtesy of a | reply. Therefore, it was necessary for us to handie the Sun as we did in the issue mentioned above. On the appearance of the ngest ar-: ticle, a similar letter was written to the editor. of that paper, also without result. -\ Readers of the Digest or Sun who desire copies of our letters to the editors of those publications may ob- tain same.by writing to us. ‘ ed, slandered and misrepresented by such publications as- the New York Sun and Digest, it seems, are without any recourse whatever. -The editors pay no attention to letters showing where their facts are wrohg, and they even refuse to publish communications giving. the other side of the question. It is our deliberate opinion that this @ condition can not exist long, and that sooner or- later: unfair and crooked journalism will get what is coming to it. Doctor’ L. West of Monett, Mo., sent us-a copy of a letter which he sent ‘to’the Literary Digest.. Doctor West opened "‘an ' account with ' the Scandinavian ' American bank st Fargo and sent-the editor of the Literary Di- gest a check on that bank for a year's subscription, to learn, he says, “if the editor beheved that the bank ' had ‘blown up, as he stated ‘in ‘the No- “ yember L lssue, or whether he-was just . bluffing.” ‘At last returns the- Literary Digest has not refused the check. . Appea[s for Relgn of Terror! Papers Repudiate Ad of Seattle Man Urging “War of Extermination” Against All Liberals EWSPAPER readers of &1 Seattle | Wash., recently were ~ startled by full-page ad- . vertisements signed by one HEdwin Selyin, advo- against members of . labor unjons, the Nonpartisan league ‘and other progressive organ- " izations and trying to couple su¢h or- ganizations up with the I. W. W. Sel- * vin s editor of the Business Chroni- ~cle, published at Seattle; :The adver- tisement was an out-and-out appeal for a reign'ef terror, couched in the ~ “most inflammatory terms. -~paragraph is the following: A sample ) The L. -W.-W., the Nonpartisan ’ .-league, the so-called Triple alli- ance- in: the state of Washington, the pro-German Soclahsts, the - closed shap labor unions, the agi- tators, malcontents, anarchists, ~_ syndicalists, seditionists, traitors —the whole motley crew of Bol-- shevists ~and: near-Bolshevists— - must_be outlawed by public opin- '/ ion and hunted down and hounded " until driven beyond the hormm - of. civic_decency. - Other: selections of Mr, Selvm s sen- sational ‘appeal for violence and tex- “The -and and . Tacoma, ' New . stand, because no better prop'a'ganda for labor and other progressive. or- ganizations could be imagined. It in-. dicated that Mr. Selvin, who is a de- ‘fender of the present control of in- -dustry and a “super-patriot,” was either insane or pandering, for money or influence, to ‘the grossest passions of anti-reform fanatics. -Any-appeal: to violence reflects discredit on ‘the: cause in -which it is made, and Mx. Selvin’s appeal was in the interests of the employers’ association and: the \political and husiness: interests fight- ing the Triple alliance, the voters’ or- ganization composed of farmers, rail- road workers-and trade unionists in the state of Washington. - NEWSPAPERS APOLOGIZE FOR PUBLISHING AD “ . Even in these times of hysteria and unrest, this product of a diseased: or corrupt agitator met instant rebuke by the public.” ' Such ‘pressure was brought on the newspapers:that pub- . lished the ad that most of them apolo- gized. 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