New-York tribune., 1918-07-15
Los Angeles Organizations
Directors Explain Con-
demning The Examiner
Its War Attitude
Shown by Excerpts
Editor Fails in His Attempt
To Have Ban on Publ
cation Rescinded

bers recently, the clubs board of di
rectors quoted excerpts from editorial
printed in Hcarst's Los Angeles Ex
nmner" to explain why Hearst news
papers had been barred from the club
rooms. The explanation came as tn
result of a demand by Fenner II. Webb
q member of the club and one of tn
Examiner" editors, that the board o
directors rescind the anti-Hearst &C
ton.
Mr. Webb made this demand in al
open letter, which he published in 9TH
Examiner" IN the course OF this let
ter he said: Neither Mr.. Hearst no
his newspapers need any defence from
ne. His life and his newspapers spea|
Cor themselves"
The letter of explanation sent to clul
members was d copy Of s. letter which
the board of directors addressed to Nh
Webb. The directors asked Mr.. Webb
as a club member, not as a Hears
editor, whether he thought club will
eighty members in the service ought t
patronize publication with Il past sucl
as Hearsts Los Angeles paper.
Excerpts from Letter
The letter follows in part
Dear Sir: For the information of
the members of the Sierra Madre
Club and the guidance Of its board
of directors. Will you. as one of the
editors of The Los Angeles Exami-
ner,' answer through its columns the
following questions?
Does the sentiment expressed in
the following quotations from edi-
torials published in The Los Angeles
Examiner since Congress declared
that a state of war existed between
the United States and Germany re-
fleet the present convictions of Mr..
Hearst and the policy of his publ
cations, and do you think that an
institution 100 per cent American
should. after this country declared
war on Germany, publish through its
editorial columns such sentiments?
For the information of the mem-
bers of the Sierra Madre Club and
the guidance of it's board of dircc-
tors, do you, as member of the
club (not as editor of The Exami-
nerD subscribe to the sentiments ex
pressed in the quotations given be-
low, and do you, as member,
think that the Sierra Madre Club
the service, support with its money
and circulating such views?
Each and every one of the fol-
lowing quotations was taken from
editorials published in 'The Exami-
ner' after this country entered the
war against Germany as an ally Of
Italy, France. England and Japan:
''Blow at Our Safety
"'April 8, 1917 When this war is
over and the peoples at last discover
how they have been deceived and de-
luded and infiamed to furious pas
sion and deadly hatred and awful
slaughter by this huge conspiracy of
organized lying and concealment of
real facts, q roar of universal exc
Grafton will 90 up, and the men who
have given their pens and talents to
this sinister work. miscalled patri-
otto propaganda, will be fortunate If
outraged peoples do not hang them
as fast as they are caught
April II, 1917.-We say again
and we have a right to speak, since
we alone predicted and warned the
country Of these conditions and
urged preparation for them--we saw
that every shipment of food and mil
itary supplies from this time on is a
blow at our safety and that if " we do O
not stop this fatal drain upon our
resources. the country will be face
to face with hunger, and possibly
worse disaster
"April 10. Particularly do
we deplore this sentiment which has
been fostered against the subma-
rine.
"'We are making a terrible mis-
take IN this sentimental objection
70 submarine warfare
But as things stand in these cir
cumstances of uncertainty, in our
utterly unprepared condition. there
sensible. and that is to begin at once
and to continue to work with all our
might and main to supply all our
military needs and to keep every
dollar and every man and every
weapon and all our supplies and
stores at home for the defence of
our own land, our own people, our
own freedom. until that defence has
been made absolutely secure
England Il Target
April %, l917-Citizens. let US
build our own navy and build it
strong enough to protect US not only
against Germany but against Eng
and and Japan
"'Citizens, let US prepare for every
eventuality. Let us prepare for the
future as we'll as the present. and
when preparing for the future let
us remember the past
"'April 90, 1917: I'VE say plainly
to Washington that the whole peo-
pie arc ready to back up solidly, with
all possible enthusiasm and with all
their resources TO the last dollar and
TO the last man an American war
for the rights and benefits of Amer
ica. but the majority. and the vast
majority too, are not disposed. to
put it very mildly. to be enthusiastic
oTer fighting "A war Cor England, to
save England from defeat, to re-
establish her insolent tyranny over
the seas that should be free. to nut
our navy at her disposal, to strip
our own people OF food for her. to
neglect cur own defence against ter
rblc dangers that may come. in or
der that England may be safeguarded
with American men, American money.
American resources and everything
that is absolutely necessary to our
own defence and safety"
June %. 19l7-But it is only
right that England and France shall
fight their great battles for them
selves, so long as they have men
enough to do it,
%" But until that time (unti
all Englishmen everywhere have been
drafted) America is not called in
honor nor in duty to send her beard
less boys across the sea to be sacri-
feed for England's cause"
July 2. l9l7-These papers have
said consistently. and will continue
10 maintain. that the American sol
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