Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-15

to Bristow or La Toilette. could
New York Editor hope to down this
entertaining fiction. He would only
hear that his books were doctored, OF
that he was hiding behind somebody
else's skirts, or that it was the point OF
view of the men he associated with
that really did the mischief-so discred-
tied are newspaper managers with GER
tain sections of the people and certain
cross-very cross-sections OF the poll
ticans.
IF YOU think I exaggerate. please
bear in mind the bitter attacks on the
Associated Press the present winter
has witnessed 1t has ben assailed as
a monopoly. and on one forum after
another attacked as an organized con
spiracy to suppress every happening
that affects progress and radicalism-
with a capital and r. Socialists, la
bor men and progressives alike oe-
nounce it. because 1t does not carry
their propag anda. Negroes criticise II
because 1t brings out of the south
news ONLY of their crimes. and never
of their honorable achievements. some
congressman never fail to berate
when their hobbies are for the mo-
ment exhausted.
..C,uriously enough. the bona nde
malefa ctors of great wealth equally
denounce it as an association con :
trolled by the mob. and. therefore, rear
ing to tell the truth about them. Al
least this was the excuse offered by
bribe giver who thought he was BUYING
some New York newspapers for trust:
he merely wished to secure justice for
his client to get their views of famous
case into print sall this when the
Of her side to the controversy was pro-
testing that The Associated Press was
heinp sold out to the trust. With The
Associated Press it Is truly case OF
being damned if you do and damned II
YOU don't. It is berated by Catholics
for being subsidized by protestants at the
moment that anti-Catholics are sure
that they have convincing proof that
the head of the Associated Press draws
postoffice order for $26s.'5 mohtn
from the pope in Rome.
No amount of iteration seems &c
make anybody understand that if there
are grave defects in the ASSOCIATED
Press. the fault lies with the S95 news
papers which comprise its membership;
that II is cooperative organization
which makes no money prohts. ana IL
Argus -eyed in that each newspaper II
watching the service, ready to make the
telephone bells tingle If happening II
overlooked or anything improper IS pu'
over the wires: that there are nun
dreds Of honest newspaper men In The
Associated Press who would as soo1
sell their wives and children as u
knowingly let anyone use the service u
grind an axe or feather his nest.
1T all avails not: the answer is: OF
can tell by the trend of 1T that IT Il
ca pitalistic-as If there were not every
shade of opinion in The Associated
Press. Its very president is. | am told
a socialist. at least the theory-but O
what use Is that? Every man with
propaganda to further is convinced, l.
his copy is rejected because it is argu
ment or assertion, and not news. tina
he is titled against the stone wall o
corrupt wealth. l personally have ex
amined one mares nest after anothe'
only to find that each was due to ignor
ance Of the technique of the profession
or of the facts Most of them woult
never have been heard of had TIL
SUSPICIOUS ones gone to headquarter
to inspect the records. 1t is only in tn
tenth or one hundredth case that hav'
found that there was a genuine error
And 1t goes without saying that l hav
yet to learn OF constructive suggest
| ion as to something better to take tn
place Of The Associated Press"