The Alaska citizen., 1914-11-16
Phone 262 Phone
JUSTICE DUE MRS. LEWIS.


 correct his wrong has made fl eTi- dent that he is now in fear of the strong hand of the law. which pro teCts women and men from such irresponsible newspaper writers as he
 The victim of this attempted hu- nor is Mrs. Lena Morrow Lewis, who recently had charge of the Socialist campaign here. The vicious attack was without excuse for although Mrs. Lewis doctrines are not ap proved by many people. she was not abusive and she had a right to her political views. so long as they were not expressed in an illegal manner.
 It is safe to say that had such an editorial, so full of vulgar sugges- tions as published in last Monday evenings Nevs-Miner been publish ed in newspaper in an Outside city the United States postal au- thorities would have prevented it's going through the mails
 Men have been sent 10 prison for writing letters that were not half as suggestive of immoral ideas as was the editorial in the News-Miner More than that. editors and news paper owners have been convicted of criminal libel and sued for large sums of money for articles less harmful to a persons character than the one written about Mrs Lewis.
 Mrs Lewis friends here are justly indignant over the cOwardly attack made on her in her absence, and from the fact that the editor of the News-Miner has attempted to set himself right by apologizng, there is reason to believe that he has been warned that criminal or civil suits are to be filed against him.
 In his published apology to Mrs Lewis, the editor of the News-Miner says, in part;
 "It was very funny editorial while We were writing it but when We read it in print that evening it impressed us as one of the FIERC EST AND MOST INEXCTSABLE EDITORIALS WE HAVE WRITTEN IN A LIFETIME OF SUCH WRIT INGS."
 Thus the editor of the NewsMin CT frankly confesses that he has spent a lifetime writing such ineX- cusable editorials. and if so it is about time that an outraged public put stop to such maliciousness.
 In the State of Oregon they have passed a law providing that man convicted of beating woman must be stripped and whipped. This in dicates how much the public de- mands protection for the weaker sex But beating woman, while it may cause her much physical pain, is not nearly as contemptible as to attack her character in the public press, especially when that attack is made in her absence, when she is not able to put up at least a feeble defense
 It is not known that Mrs Lewis at any time has said an unkind thing about the editor of the News-Miner, As far as is known she has not violated any law or injured any per son of this community, and why she should be attacked in this cowardly manner is beyond the com prehension of anyone who knows her or the editor of the News-Miner.
 The contempt expressed for the News-Miner's attack upon this de- fenseless woman has been the sub ject of much indignant converse tion in Fairbanks since it appeared. If so-called "rough-neck" should have done such contemptible thing. or would make himself so consistently obnoxious to decency as the afternoon newspaper has done, he would certainly have been pro- vided with blue ticket" and his future operations here would be known no more.
 It Is right that the people of the community should show resentment to the manner in which this woman has been made the object of an infamous attack, and it is up to the other newspapers of the city to do their share in discouraging future repetition of it.
 It is noticeable, in this regard, that the morning paper, the Times, has, by it's silence, seemingly ap- proved of the questionable writings of the News-Miner, and this can hardly help the standing of the Times in the estimation of people who are ever ready to protect the weaker sex.
 It is understood that some of Mrs. Lewis friends went to the News