Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1914-10-16
CHARLATANISM.

other person is responsible. The ar
ticle was entirely IMPERSONAL. No
person or persons were named and
there were no insinuations that it was
aimed at any particular person or
persons. A charlatan is defined by
Webster as n who pirates much in
own favor and makes unwarran-
table pretensions. A quack, an i'm
a mountebank. That there are
such individuals in existence, that
they have and do prey upon society,
and that they are guilty Of just such
as were charged in the article,
is a matter of common knowledge and
known to the editor in common with
other people. The article was written
as a protest and a warning against
such individuals and such practices.
Last week l.. J. King was holding
meetings at the Evangelical church,
the editor has never met Mr.. King
nor did he attend any of the meetings
held by Mr.. King however it seems
that Mr.. King and some of those who
attended his meetings ASSUMED
that the article was written for and
aimed at Mr.. King. The first intima-
ton we had of this state of affairs
was the appearance in our office OF a
subscriber who came to order his pa
per discontinued because of "that edi-
torial in regard to L. ]. King" Pro-
test against such an assumption has
been in vain. Up to the present date
fourteen persons have discontinued
their paper because THEY ASSUMED
that the article named was intended
for Mr.. King. We have been inform
ed that King in his meeting and from
the pulpit on Friday evening and on
Saturday evening of last week refer
red to the article and that he urged
those in the audience who took the
Tribune to discontinue the paper and
"extinguish" the writer OF that ar
ticle. In other words Mr.. King has
endeayored to start a boycott on the
Tribune and the editor. These are
the plain facts in the case as they ap-
pear to us. We have no apologies
to make to Mr.. King nor any retrac-
lions of ANYTHING in the article OF
last week. If Mr.. King has not been
guilty of the practices alluded to in
the article then the article can have
no application to him and we fail to
see why he or his friends al have
any such interest in it as they have
manifested. We have not made either
an assertion or insinuation that the
article applied to MI. King. An an
onymous letter has reached us in
which the writer charges that in u
issue of October 9th we make a state
ment about L. J.. King and this q
writer brands as "a very cowardly
act" as we have already indicated,
the issue of October 9th contains no
statement in regard to L. j. King,
except ss L. j. King himself and his
friends have been pleased to apply 1t
to him. This same writer who has
carefully removed the top of the let
terhead and signs himself "a sub
scriber" writes "If you are going to-
print a Catholic paper please be mar
enough to say So" We have been in
the past, "man enough" to stand by
our convictions of right and Justice
and speak them or write them in our
own person or over our own name. We
are not publishing a Catholic paper,
neither are we publishing an Anti
Catholic paper. In these days of War
in Europe when men of other nations
are dominated by hate and bitterness
and peace and Christian unity are
things that are put far away we be-
lieve with DIR. Washington GLADDEN.
that in this country 1--WE must study
the things that make for peace; each
party must be ready to see the good
side of the other; must learn ito put
the best and not the worst construc-
tion on the words and deeds of the
other: must avoid all bitter and un-
charitable JUDGEMENTS; must put away
all thoughts of domination. No other
relation is conceivable. And there is
no worse enemy of Christ or of his
country than the man who seeks to
inflame and poison the minds of eth
er P~rotestants or Catholics with sus-
picions and fears and resentments
and enmities toward the other"
AS showing that there are such agi-
tators in the country as the editorial
of last week referred to, we print the
following article from the New Hamp-
ton, Iowa, Tribune, issue Of Septem-
Der End, 1914:
Hundreds of the best people in New
Hampton responded to a late after
400 call yesterday to a mass meet
ing, which was held on the court
house lawn. The object Of the gath
ering was to admonish our people to
keep cool in the face of the trying
days when there is an attempt being
made by an intruder to set neighbor
against neighbor, friend against
friend, and church against church.
Rev. L. C. Lemon, of the Methodist
church, made the address. Rev.
Lemon brought forth the great teach
ings of Jesus Christ and that "Peace
on earth, good will toward men"
should rule every heart. He deplored
the fact that there is war in Europe
and he deplores that there is being an
attempt made to create social and re-
ligious war in. this great state and
in New Hampton. He believes that
Mr.. Boles is attempting to capitalize
the prejudices of men and that the
n thing he is interested in is the
gate receipts. He has cleaned up
ward of $4,000 out o fthe town and
will probably take more. This is
what he is after and this is what he
is getting. After Mr.. Boles has gone
we will continue to live in this COM
munity. He will not have to suffer
the things we will have to stand and
little does he care.
Rev. Lemon speaks of Mr.. Boles
as exemplifying one of the best
schemers of high finance. He can
make more this year this way in a
month than he could command in a
whole year in any church as a preach
er. Oh, the people ought to think
about this terrible thing. No man
with reason and Christianity will take
up with SO unholy a movement. Peo-
pie of New Hampton know that the
insinuations against Catholic nennle