The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-11
ToRYIZED AMERICANS.
Why DO Our Correspondents in Foreiar
Lands Prejudice Dispatches.

Lands Prejudies Dispatches.
Boston Traveller: One Of the pecuI-
lar things that strikes the mind of the
average newspaper reader, who
watches the foreign news, the letters
and disaptches from Europe in particu-
lar, is this-that pretty near all the
American correspondents in London are
rank Tories, and those in Paris are the
friends and advocates of the persecut-
ing, anti-religious politics of the
French political leaders. Why is this ?
Why do American newspaper men, pre-
sumably democrats in the broad, not
the limited partisan sense-after a
brief residence in the English capital,
fill their dispatches with sneers at the
British Liberal leaders, transformation
concerning Liberal measures, abuse of
Irish home rule, and defamation of all
the politics that the normal American,
trained in an American atmosphere and
educated in American ideas, would nat
urally sympathize with? Can 1t be at
tributed to the social influence exerted
there, to the back stairs influence, to
color American opinion? Chamberlain,
The New York Sun correspondent, is
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has in way built up peculiar socil
position, nd whose house is a center for
all manner of celebrities, lions, and
freaks, has become as sturdy a Tory
as the notorious Squire Smalley, of
The Tribune, used to be. We wonder
often If his Toryism is the price he
pays for the smiles OF the smart set
and the recognition of the nobility and
gentry? Education and ability seldom
prevent a snob from showing his snob-
berry when occasion demands It, or the
distaff half of the family needs 1t.
The Partisan correspondents are sell
dom French; they are sometimes Brit
ish and occasionally American. but
their correspondence all bears the PEI
caliar coloring of those French politi-
cal ideas and views. which in this
country are exploited by Emma Gold
man and those who dignity the aboli-
ton of the law, order, religion, mar
rage. morals, and trifies of that sort
as freedom and progress
1t would be a rather refreshing nov
city to get in the foreign dispatches a
chance to read the other side OF these
questions, to see an expression of the
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France who believe in progress, liberty,
humanity. reform in social and econ
omfc matters, the abolition of medley
alisrn In government, and the things
Americanism appears to represent. re-
forms possible as our experience has
shown without destroying crurches,
banning religion. and prosecuting min
listers and priests. We wonder il some
day the editorial giants Of the newspa-
pers OF our great cities will try and
give the news of Europe to their pa
irons and cut out the poison and mis-
information they have such a preju-
dice for distributing. We have an idea
II might be made profitable; there are
times when newspaper readers like to
get the news plus the truth, and at
any rate. the experiment OF clipping
the wings and regulating the magma
ton Of European correspondents might
be worth trying There is nothing In
the ocean or It's salts that transforms
falsehood into truth.