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Lord NortheliHa was published In
the London Star more than a year
ago and created a sensation through
out England. A. @. Gardiner Is q
noted and fearless journalist and his
indictment Of Northtlife makes
particularly interesting reading jus,
now, in view of the fact that the
Lord of Thanet has come TO the
United States as the head of the
British War Mission. In 1900 Lord
Northclifte himself admitted to have
under his control IS American news
papers. We reproduce the letter
from the July issue Of The Inter
national. ED
My Lord: This Is NOT a time when
/ should wish to write to you or
about you. for there 10 nothing in
decent at such a moment In inflict-
ing the old ba~ttle-cfies on the pub
lie. But you have chosen to issue
a book .ot newspaper scraps the OBJ
ject Of which is to cover yourself
and the Daily Mail with honor as
the true prophets Of the var and
The Daily News and other repres-
cn~tatiyes of Liberalism with odium
as the false prophets Of peace. To
let such a challenge pass would be
a wrong to the cause which this
journal holds sacred, and therefore,
unwillingly, | address you.
Your claim TO be the true prophet
OF the war does not call for dispute.
II has always been your part TO pro-
phesy war and cultivate hate. There
IS nothing more tempting tor the
journalist than to be an incendiary.
II is the short cut to success. for il
is always easier to appeal to the
lower passions OF men than to their
better instincts. There is a large
crowd TO address, and you have
never deserted the larger crowd.
The student of your career will find
it difficult TO point to anything that
you have done and 10 say Here
Lord NorthcliFe sacrificed his jour.
~nalistie interests for the common
good, for the cause Of peace, for
some great human ideal that brought
no grist to his mill; here he used
his enormous power not to enrich
himself but to enrich the world"
But he will have no difficulty in
pointing to the wars you have
fomented, the hatreds you have Gull
tiyated. the causes you have de-
serted, the sensations, from the
ekin falsehood to the Amiens
stoou about t.4e deleat OF the
British army, that you have spread
broadcast You have done these
things not because Of any faith that
was in you, not because Of any prin-
ciple you have cherished. You have
lone them because they were the
short cut to success-that success
which is the only thing you rev. ,
srence amidst all the mysteries and
sahctities Of life.
ANOTHING.s
If one could find in you some
Ultimate purpose even some whole
ONE and honest hate. you would
present a less plIful spectacle to the
world. You would at least be a
teality. But you are nothing. In all
his great and moving drama of
humanity you represent no idea, no
passion, no policy, no disinterested
.nthusiasm. Like AR, LowelI's cam
s1idhte you
scent which pays the best an then
90 into ii baldhesded.
When you preached war against the
Beers it was not that you hated the
Beers OK loved England; it was only
hat you understand how to sell your
papers. When you preached war
against France. told her that we
would roll her in mud and blood"
aud give her colonies to Germany,
/ WA not that you had any rooted
lntagonism to France, but that you
anew how to explain the ~momentary
passions OF the British mob. When
you called for reprisals against Rus
ia over the North Sea incident il
Sag not that you did not know that
here had been q mistake, but that
YOU knew that a cry for war was a
good newspaper thrill When last
spring you set all your papers from
The Times downwards prophesying
civil war and went 10 Ulster TO
organize your brigade of war COR
respondents and triumphantly an
aounced that hostilities were about
10 begin, it was not that you cared
Tor unionism or hated Home Rule.
You are for neither and have ccquet.
ed with both. 1t was only that you
fl,ought that Parliament was going
10 be beaten and that you could be
The prophet OF red ruin and the
breaking UP of laws. Even your
loves are rooted in hates as mean
ngless as your loves, When you
covered the Kaiser with adulatiou,
called him Our friend ID need" and
pleaded fof an alliance with Ger
many, il was only to make your
gospel Of war with France more ef-
Ia a word, you have been
the incendiary OF journalism fos
twenty years. man ever ready 70
set the world in q blaze to make >
newspaper placard.