The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-01-04
lACkLONDONAGA|N
D|SAVOWS D|ATR|BE
!. AGAINST SOLDIERS
r. '~'-
Declares It Is Not His Work But
a Made In Germany
Sentiment

| IN recent issue of The Advertiser,
IN a criticism of the postmaster gene
raj Tor barring from the mails what
was described as Jack London 3 advice
to young soldiers, this paper accented
the alleged diatribe against the work
OF the soldier as from Jack London.
never having seen the authorship de,
hled. However, Mr.. London does deny
u and denies II strenuously, declaring
That IT is not his but made in Ger.
many sentiment attributed to him
and circulated over his name. y.
IL Is pleasure for The Advertiser
TO publish Mr.. London S denial, as Il
appears in letter to the editor of the
Army and Navy Journal, to whom the
author, now at Waikiki, wrote:
canard Repeatedly Denied
! have just read your editorial on
the third column Of page 3s7 of your
November p, 1915, number. First, l
want to thank yon for giving me the
information that this canard against
me concerning my alleged advice to the
young soldier did not originate in the
United States. As far as l was able
TO trace il back, number of wears
ago, ! found that it first appeared in
Santa Barbara, California. You give
me the information that first of ali II
was a diatribe against miIitarism which
was circulated for some years in Eu
rope, and especially in Germany. This
take it, was in the days before il
translated into the English language
and circulated in the United States
with my name attached to it.
"Second, | want to discuss with you
a note that you have always rung
against me, and that you have rung
in this latest editorial, namely, why I
permitted such a treason against the
Government to go to my discredit for
years unexplained. | do not know
how far and wide you travel. have
reasonable belief that you do not
travel so far nor so wide as I do, nor
for as long periods of isolation from all
news published in the newspapers of the
United States. Also you have not had
published about yourself one thou
sandth part of the canards that have
been published about me. You have not,
Of yourself, learned the impossibility
OF mailing lying canard once it is put
out against one. This present anti
militaristic canard | have denied, de-
MED and denied and denied.
Denials Persisted In
Il have denied it in personal letters,
have denied it in personal interviews,
| have denied it by letters and by ca.
bles to Europe; all Of which has got me
no results. When this canard was res.
directed, somewhere in the last few
weeks, it was published in every news.
paper i'll the United States, and | was
charged with being the author of this
advice to the young soldier. And while
the head of the post Office department
was debarring this canard from the
mails, and. when Capt. William d.
Finke was getting widespread publici-
ty III his attack OH me for my author
ship, and while Maj. Gen. Leonard
Wood was having his correct and wrath.
full say about the matter, believing
that | had written this canard,' / did
not notice the Army and Navy Jour.
nal writing to any Of the newspapers
of the United States and proclaiminG
the truth, that | had long since denied
the authorship of this advice to the
young soldier All of which means
just this precisely: that once in the
press of the United States such a lie
is started it is impossible ever to nail
such a lie.
"IOu have betrayed a lack of un.
derstanding OF me and of my work. /
AM hailed by book reviewers and news.
paper men as the apostle of the print
tive, "a the father of the red school of
fiction where nothing but fight and
blood obtain. If you have followed NV
newspaper work you will find that
have only covered for the newspapers
two kirdsSOf things of interest, namely,
i rlZehghting and war corresponding. If
you take the totality of my writing
work and of my fOrty-odd books you
will ind that have done nothing but
write of and TO the outstanding, fight
ing man. | amt born fighter myself;
my people, in direct ancestry, have
fought in every war in the United
States and in the American colonies.
All the foregoing serves merely to il.
lustrate my main contention, that IL is
impossible to nail lie once it gets
publicity in the press of the United
States. i
Now won t you1please not continue
to 20 after me because | have not de,
MED my authorship of this canard that,
Is your own information, arose origi
Lally in Germany, 3D., n.h I'll
In recent reply to questions ask
ed me by the San Francisco Bulletin
concerning my attitude on war | said:
War, with longer and more wide.
spreading intervals of peace, seems des-
tined always to obtain on the planet
The intervals of world peace may be
generation long, or even several gen.
eratiOns long. But they will inevitably
be broken in upon by wars that will
be eonmensurately as terrible and wide.
spread and destructive.
Here are the reasons in nut.
shell: W Man is an animal and lives
upon the earth; (2) man must eat and
like any other animal, he is fecund;
(3) the habitable planet is only 50
large, and it's size cannot be increased
by man. (4) Nautilus s Law of Popula,
ton still holds for man. Despite its
wars and heavy emigration of the
nineteenth century, Europe increased
its population from 10000, 900 to 500.
oOO,0OO between the years 1900 and
1900.
(5), Man being an animal, fe-
cund animal, fighting animal, he will
le pressed AGAINST the means of sub.
sistence, and when he is pressed too
hard he will auain and olwaVs draw