The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, September 20, 1920, Page 15

The Backers of the Press Ins1de Fight of Big Corporations Over Seattle Paper Re- veals Subsidies Given Publisher T IS often said of news- papers that act suspi- ciously that, while it can not be PROVED they have been bought body and soul by the big in- terests, they ACT as though they had —that if sinister influences = had brought money to bear on the editors and publishers, the conduét of the paper would not be any different than what it had been. And it is added that, “if the publisher is not feather- ing his nest financially by this policy, he is a fool, because the big fellows would be willing to pay heavily for ‘just that sort of newspaper.” Publishers of reactionary news- papers which oppose every: leader, movement or measure of even the mildest progressive tendencies, have pretended to be righteously indignant at these insinuations on the part of their readers and the public. Yet, _every once in a while, the public gets a look into the “inards” of a modern newspaper and finds—Just what every- body expected. A recent case is that of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a morning organ that has steadfastly championed the employers in their fight on union labor, and consistently sneered at farmer and other reform movements. Rival interests are fighting in the courts for possession of the Seattle paper—figuratlvely a case of “thieves falling out”—with the result that the public gets the truth. It is on record in the court that representatives of the Stone & Webster traction and elec- tric power interests, one of the big- gest public service corporations in the country, the Oregon Railway & Navi- gation company and the Alaska Steamship company, the latter a Gug- genheim corporation, furnished money and credits to the existing control of the paper—in other words, it was “bought and paid for” and spoke as a mere hireling of these and related special interests. Of course, there is an “explanatlon"~ by these interests and their represen- tatives. The money was not furnished for an ulterior purpose. Certainly not! It was furnished in a “disinter- ested” way, because these representa- tives of corporations were “personal friends” of Clark Nettleton, the osten- sible publisher of the paper, and want- ed to help him along in the newspaper business! : No one will deny the right of any person or interest to own and publish newspapers, providing their control of the voice of the editor is known by the people. But when the control is se- cret, such papers are a dangerous and destructive influence. And it seems impossible to make laws that will pre- vent sinister interests secretly con- trolling the public press. Publishers who publish reactionary, labor-hating, farmer-hating papers ought not to complain when they are suspected by the public of being “bought up” by corporations—the suspicion of the public is the only protection it has. And this suspicion will persist, because every little while it is confirmed in specific instances, such as the Post- Intelligencer. Judge Landis, America’s Shame Arizonan Scores Chlcagoan for Incendiary Speech at Anti- Nonpartisan League Meeting DITOR Nonpartisan Lead- er: In Minneapolis, on the evening of January 29, 1920, in an address tective Legion, an organ- ization ' fighting the Nonpartisan league, and in referring to the League, the words of Judge K. M. Landis were: “Their program is destructive of gov- ernment. They are guilty of treason. ‘What we need is a new definition of ‘treason. Then we could use the side of a barn for those who would destroy our government. Now, I am not the kind of a man to be in office in North Dakota, but by God, I'd like to hold ~ court there for about a wee! Let us speculate on what Judge Landis would do if given the oppor- tunity of wielding his judicial club in the courts of North Dakota. By his own shameless confession he would deliberately set aside, ignore, repudi- ate, rape the Constitution of the Unit- ed. States; close his eyes to the princi- ples of justice and democracy; forget that he is an American citizen; forget that the very foundation upon which this great republic was founded is lib- erty; would throttle the rights of American citizens; would trample justice in the dust; would murder the- principles for which our forefathers gave their lives in the American revo- lution, in a shameless, ruthless effort to send the men and women of North Dakota behind prison bars bhecause they believe in the right of self-deter- mination, believe in the right of the use of the ballot, believe in the ma- jority ruling, believe that the voters of a state have the right to make its own state laws as the honest principles and conscience of its citizens dictate. The very words of Judge Landis before the American Pro- convict him. With men—such men— in the judiciary, absolutely devoid of the first precept of justice and princi- ple, is it strange that profiteers mul- tiply, thrive, flourish and grow fat on the tears of huagry children; is it strange that Arthur C. Townley was mercilessly persecuted in a shameless endeavor to put him 'behind prison bars; is it strange that Eugene V. Debs is now serving his martyrdom behind prison bars because American- ism born and bred in him welled so strong that he dared to express his honest, unbiased opinion! May God palsy the tongue that passed the sentence! Is it strange that'a bank wrecker tried to close the doors of a farmers’ bank; is it strange that the Nonpartisan league sprang into life, and like a raging prairie fire is sweep- ing all before it, and God grant that no hand, however ruthless, no law, however oppressive, no judicature, however powerful, may stay its on- ward course; that it may crumble the walls of oppression; that it may break the chains of slavery; that it may en- velope the earth; that it may reach even unto its most remote corner; that every civilized and every uncivilized people will feel and know the benefi- cial effects of the Nonpartisan league! ALBERT P. PRESCOTT. Tucson, ‘Ariz. 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