Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-10-19
THE JOURNAL REFUSES
TO Be FALSELY QUOTED

The little aquabble between the
Journal and the Advocate seems, to
have died down, owirg to the fact
that the Advocate has neither been
able to suba,antiate it's own stae-
ments For 10 refute those made by
the Journal. nstead, it has grown
sudd emily, strangely and profoundly
silent ON the subject OF the So
called eight-hour law, which can
only be taken to mean, that it re-
fuses to defend further this ini-
quitous piece of legislation whose
chiefss. victims are to be the ia Ill
ers of the nation.
The Journal is not disposed to
rub it in." Rather it thinks the
Advocate chose the wiser and safer
course. The Great Hold-Up is ut
terry ilndefe nsible. Whoever at
tempts to defend it, courts swift
political disaster. Even the presi-
dent's attempts have been pitjfully
weak. The only possible course
for democratic organs, then, is to
Withdraw from so hopeless and
dangerous an undertaking.
However, there is one phase of
the controversy betweeni the Journal
and ADJ ocate which merits further
atten ion. The ADV ocate has stated
pub icly that the journal said things
which it readily did not say, and
s.ood for things, which it does
not stard for. 1t asserts, for exam
pie, thai the Journal actually made
this following vile atemenlt:
Better that the strike had come
than make the railroads part wi b
the les st part of their Two Hun
dred Million additional yearly net
profits. Yes, better let the chill
dren OF the cities die for want Of
milk, Letter sop the factories
and throw thousands upon thou
sands out of employment and let
,theml stare too, yes, stop the rail
roads SO the farmer cam have NO
market for his stock or grain, let
us freeez in the winter time be
cause we have no coal, yes Lat
everything sop. g
1t has further quoted the Jour
nal as saying; "Les even the MAX
ing OF medicine and, the serums
stop that the rai.ro ads may forever
put the crimp in organized labor"
It has moreover charged that the
editor of the Journal has willfully
pub .ished ina ter that he knows
or one in his position at least
should know, are not facts"
1t has said that he, wished
this strike had come," and that he
'is still sorry the strike did not
| come
4 1t is needless to say here that
the foregoing S atements are wholly
untrue. The journal has said moth
ing at any tine which cam posi-
bly, tie construed to- have either
the form or the meaning of the a
bove s.a ements. After making all
possible allowance fer an honest
m:sunders anding, of its articles,
thess statements are still inexcu-
sDble, for they amount to a fragrant
per,ersion and d s ortion of the
truth, which can not but inju. Q
the Journal, since they falsely i'm
pute 10 it unMor hy and malicious
| motives Yet the Advocate has re-
i, pres anted them to he actually true
and has given them such circula-
ton as il was allie to give them.
1t is one thing for the Advocate
to read into the Journals articles
!, evil meanings that are born of it's
own fancy or imagination; but it
is another thing for it to report
what lit SO reads in,o them as hav
ing bean actually SAID by the
Journal. The latter is a serious
offense; and the Journal is unwill-
ing to be mis- epres nted or misquot
ed in any such manner.
1t asks the Advocate to correct
the atsmen which have BEEN
quoted above Moreover. it asks
that they be corrected clearly and
without equivocation; that the COR
rection be given the same pmbl-
city as the original statements;
and that the correction in question
be made before the Forthcoming
; election.
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