Arizona republican., 1916-07-16
DIXON UPHOLDS HIS
 BRYAN CARICATUR

Thomas Dixon author of The Fall of a Nation" has come to the front in answer to the criticisms of his carica- ture of ex-Secretary William J. Bryan under the name of Hon. Plato Barker in the film
 The double of Bryan is seen in the Dixon spectacle pocketing five hun dred dollars fees (payable in advance) for his Chautauqua peace sermons. La ter the Honorable Barker goes out to welcome with floral offerings the con- nlander of an imperial army invading America. He tries to deliver another peace speech on this occasion. but he fOrgets to remove his hat and this is rudely knocked off his head by the em- | peror's minions. The imperial com nander then consigns him to the army | scullery where he is set to peeling po- | tatoes for the generals dinner
 l A letter writer in the New York Sun says: As a loyal American and a law abiding citizen I wish to protest against the amazing action Of a nov | ing picture company in holding up to TIdicule 8 former secretary of state in q film that is designed to promote pre- | paredness. For a long time l have been ! 2 believer in the non- censorship of i films. but if there are to be any more deplorable breaches of national res pect like this 1 should certainly throw my influence on the side of the censor movement"
 In reply to this and other attacks on the Bryan caricature. Mr. Dixon says in a statement addressed to the press generally:
 Tt appears to me that the film is always singled cut for condemnation
 in respect of matters that do not start , even a ripple when presented on the | legitimate stage or in the funny col unins of the papers. Is Charles Wake
 field Cadman, the writer of the Sun
 letter. aware that MT. Bryan Is being
 caricatured in almost every summer
 show or revue in the country l saw
 him cartooned in the Ziegfeld 'Follies at the New Amsterdam theater the
 other night and in a Columbia theater
 revue in Chicago last week Every newspaper cartoonist is privileged tr make fun of public characters Yet when a film author does the same thing hands are held up in horror anc breaches of decency and national re isDect' are talked of. I'll wager tha 1 MT. Cadman, had he looked back ove
 his files of the Sun and the Evenin, | Sun, would have discovered pictoria | and literary ridicule of Bryan far ex ! ceeding anything I have attempted My answer to the charge is simp l ly that all the statements of fact i'm
 piled in my caricature are true Re
 signing from the office of secretar
 Of state. MT Bryan 80 to speal
 logged the Chautauqua platform an
 became the star lecturer at an emoIu
 ment Of five hundred dollars per lee
 ture. He raised the price general
 collected the money in advance. an I put the other Chautauqua speakers i
 the shade so that this summer man l of them could not obtain engagement! The theme of his oratory wa | Pcace and he was surrounded h ' groups of admiring women and child
 ren just as he is shown to be in tn | picture. The part of the caricatur I referring to the future is likely fore
 cast of what would happen should sue I an orator present to an invading arm
 his Utopian peace pronosals. Hn 'vorl
 be laughed at, handled with indignit! ! and the result of his efforts would |
 absolutely nil.
 Tn conclusion I will say that I at
 tackled Mr. Bryan as a public man an