The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-14

l impossibility of mailing lying can- | ard once it is put out against one. 1 This present anti-militaristic canar6 i | 1 have denied, denied and denied | and denied. I have denied it in per- sonal letters, I have denied it Ill personal interviews, I have denied
 it by lotters and by ccb1cs to Eu-
 rope all of which has got me no re-
 suits. When this canard was resur-
 rected, somewhere in the last few
 weeks, it was published in every
 newspaper in the United States, ana
 was charged with being the author
 of this advice to the young soldier.
 And while the head of our Post Of- l fee department was debarring this
 canard from the mails, and when
 Captain William D. Finke was gett-
 ing widespread publicity in his at-
 tack on me for my authorship, and
 when Major General Leonard D.
 Wood was having his correct and
 wrathful say about the matter, "be- lieving I had written this canard''.
 did not notice the Army and Navy
 Journal writing to any of the news
 papers of the United States, ana
 proclaiming the truth that I had
 long since denied the authorship of
 this advice to the young soldier. All
 of which means this precisely: that
 once in the press of the United
 States such lie is started, it is inn
 possible to nail such lie.
 You have betrayed a lack of un-
 derstanding of me and my work. I am hailed by book reviewers and
 newspaper men as the apostle of the
 primitive, ss the father of the req
 school of fiction where nothing but
 fight and blood obtain. If you have
 followed my newspaper work you
 will find that I have only covered : for the newspapers two kinds of things of interest, namely prize : fighting and war corresponding. If ) you will take the totality of my : newspaper work and my forty-odd books you will find that I have done
 nothing but write of and for the up- standing fighting man. l am born : fighter myself; my people, in direct ancestry, have fought In every war in the United States and in tho Am erican colonies. All the foregoing : serves merely to illustrate my main . nail lie once it gets publicity in . the press of the United States.
 Now wont you please not continue to go after me because I have not denied the authorship of this can- ard which, by your own information
 arose originally in Germany?
 In a recent reply to questions
 asked me by the San Francisco | Bulletin concerning my attitude on war I said: ''War with longer and fmorc widespreading intervals of peace, seems destined always to oD- tain on this planet. The intervals os peace may be gel eration long or even several generations long. But they will inevitably be broken in upon by wars that will be as com mensurately as terrible and wide. . spread and destructive.
 : Here are the reasons in a nut shell: CD Man is an animal and lives upon the earth; (2) Man musl l cat, and like any other animal he iG <. fecund; (3) the habitable planet i: only so large and its size cannot b. 3 increased by man; (4) Malthus'. l law of population still holds fol man. Despite it's wars and heavy
 immigration of the 18th centur, Europe increased it's population 8 from 17O,OO0.000 to 500,00O, ,00t g (sic) between the years 1900 ant y 1900.
 n (5) Man being an animal. a fe J cund animal, fighting animal, h. will be pressed against the means 0 Y subsistence, he will again and al l. ways draw the sword, when pressed 0 too hard, to carve out of other man D life a place for himself on tn Il earth and in the sun. This is hi B entire past history. At present h c is fighting more horribly and nor If colosally than he ever fought be ls fore. q l,l ~ Selsflls ls. 3 Wherefore. it behooves countr