The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-03-30
BENNINGTON, VT, MARCH 80, 1912
THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ed its attack on the eultOr OF Inc
Banner, and this attack is reprinted
in another column of this issue. In
reply, the editor of The Banner has
written the Journal the following let
ter:
Editor of the Manchester Journal:
Since it seems to be your policy to
continue what l consider most out
rageous and unwarranted attacks on
me, am compelled TO again ask you
for space in which to make reply.
AS a newspaper editor, you know
that newspaper comment, especially
in small country paper, is always
or nearly always on one phase of a
question, and much less often on the
whole issue, yet it is on the whole is
sue on which a case is decided and
never on one little scrap of evidence.
You and your companions in men
dacity have hunted through the col
umns of The Banner for several years
past and sorted out sentence here
and part of paragraph there, by
which you seek to prove certain alleg-
atoms you have made concerning me
and which ] have declared to be with
out foundation
l have not verified the quotations
which you allege are taken from The
Banner, but even if every one is with
absolute literal exactness, it does not
alter the fact that your whole article
is wickedly and maliciously false in
every meaning that 1t seeks to con-
vey.
Every honest man knows that a
sentence or a few words taken out of
an article can be considered fairly
only when the whole article and the
circumstances surrounding it are
taken into consideration. Never once
have you printed the entire statement
or drawn a talr inference
will give a few instances for the
benefit of your readers, whom l know
want to be fair to me, even If you are
not. Here is one of your quotations.
"The address of Mr.. w. H. Killing
beck on the corner Monday evening,
in which he reviewed the tenets OF
modern socialism, was well worth lis
tening to by any student OF present
day conditions. While we may hon
estly disagree with some of the meth
DDS by which results are sought by
the socialists, there are few who can
consCientiously say that the results
aimed at are not right
You fail to include that Mr.. Killing
beck stated that the results aimed al
are universal education, doing away
with poverty and disease, fair div
ision of the profits of labor and the
control of public utilities for the ben
eft of the public. l still favor these
results. President Taft in recent
speech made very similar state
ment. II the Journal objects to these
things because The Banner favor'
them, we are sorry, but we fail to SEE
the political significance. Isn't 1t ap
parent rather that you distorted
quotation in attempt to hurt my stand
ing?
Another of your quotations:
"The passage of the wool tariff bill
by the Senate is a great victory TO
the insurgents and for Senator La
Toilette"
In your original questions you &C
cused me of getting into bed with tn
Democrats on the tariff issue. Nov
you have changed it to the insurgen
Republicans on the wool tariff, wit
whom President Taft agreed when h
stated that schedule X of the Payne
Aldrich bill is indefensible. II yo
had followed out your argument, 20
would have merely convicted me Q
agreeing with President Taft on tn
wool tariff. But you did not wait {
be fair, you hoped by printing a hal
truth to lead some Of my friends t
believe evil of me. If you had wante
to be fair, you would have quoted Tn
Banners Endorsement of Presiden
Taft's veto of the bill when 1t wa
found to be not genuine adjustment
but merely fruit of political manil
ulatlon. II you had wanted TO dra'
a fair inference of what / had actl
ally advocated on the wool tariff que
ton, you should have printed wha
The Banner said on the issue as
whole which was:
ut is certain that the souther
Democrats who come from n sectio
where wool is neither grown nor MAJ
ufactured, will try to impose a tart
that will be ruinously low-fatal
manufacturers and sure to thro'
thousands of men and women out
work"
II you had wanted to show my att
tude on the whole tariff question, 20
could have found II In few words 1
The Banner as follows:
I'VE have too much protective tai
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