The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1918-04-18
JOHN f. GREENE
WRITES ANENT
EASTMAN ADDRESS
Minot Attorney Pulls Daily News Up
With Jerk and at the Same Time
Gives Comprehensive View of
the War Situation.

The following communication was
presented to the Daily News for pub
LEGATION on Friday, April IL, but was
declined:
TO Editor Minot Daily News:
The article published in the News
last Tuesday evening, and the editor
ial which appeared in it's columns last
Wednesday, both having reference to
Mr. Cashman's Monday evening ad-
dress at the Presbyterian church,
ought not to go without protest
from every truly loyal citizen of Mi
not and Ward county. That both ar
ticles have been condemned by hun
dreds of our people is fact easily
established, and what is to be said now
| is to voice that sentiment of condem-
nation.
The Tuesday evening article con-
>tained fair synopsis of Mr.. Cash
mans address, but the first paragraph
Of the article contained words that
were not only unwarranted, but were
a direct insult to Mr.. eastman. In it
reference was made in slurring terms
to former President Taft, and by
plain inference the National Security
League came in for criticism. Now,
Mr.. eastman came to US voluntarily
| to present facts tended to arouse the
people to a sense of duty at this crit
ical time when the government is
again making an appeal to the people
to aid it and themselves in the pros
ecution Of the war. Without compen-
sation from any source Mr.. eastman
is giving valuable time in service to
the country, as thousands of other
men are doing. He gave clear, I'M
vanished statement of the truth, and
because he presented the truth in
form intended to impress on the minds
of our people the real dangers which
now threaten the country you charac-
terize him as ''pessimist" and a
GLOOMY Gussy" No socialist, or |.
w. w. or Victor Berger, Hillquit or
LaFollette utterances have ever met
with such criticism in the columns of
the News as you have poured out on
Mr.. eastman, man who comes to
US to point out the menace found in
the teachings of these misguided sup
porters of our national enemies. No
man who, in whatever language, has
preached the doctrines of prepared
ness and national unity in this war
period was ever accorded such re-
'ception by newspaper IN any loyal
community. In such times what the
people want and ask for is the ever
lasting truth, and when it is given
them, and is accepted and approved
by them they, and those who serve
them, have something better due them
q A.
per whose chief grievance appears to
be that the message was not up to the
rhetorical standards of it's hypercrit-
zeal reporter. Our people are urged,
just now. to liberality in subscrip-
lions to The Third Liberty loan Is it
not exactly the correct thing for a
speaker on the war to show up the
real seriousness of the situation, even
if it be clothed in the Shadows" of
the besetting peril? Do men usually
speak of war and it's horrors, and urge
soldiers to fight, and their country
men to support them in the poetic
language of "sunshine?" How MANY
men would feel moved to put their
last available dollar into war fund,
by being told that the enemy was
"down and OUT" that our army was
to be equipped merely to attend as
on dress parade and watch our allies
put on the finishing touches, and make
the final count which determines the
contest? Surely the logic of the
News writer is unique; more than
that--it is counterfeit.
But the News was not satisfied with
it's greeting of sarcasm and ridicule
rendered to an enthusiastic, patriotic
and worthy servant of the country's
cause, it felt called on to draw from
its superior fountains Of knowledge
IN an, attempt to show not only that
Mr.. eastman was pessimist, but
that, through ignorance or malice, he
was telling the people falsehoods;
was sounding false alarm. So the
Editor INDUCES in that amazing edi-
torial review Of the speech in cues
ton which appeared in Wednesdays
News. Note the opening paragraph
of the editorial:
LEST the gloomy address deliv-
cred in this city Monday evening
by Joseph eastman Of New York
have depressing effect upon the
optimistic spirit which is necessary
for the successful sale of liberty
bonds, it may be we'll to point
out some of the fallacies in his
logic and some errors in his con-
clusions.''
In the paragraph quoted the News
editor seeks to excuse his unpardon
able affront offered the city's guest
and to the intelligent citizens of thu
city, by the gauzy pretext that it was
in the interest of the liberty bond sale
But the pretext will not serve the
purpose, nor will the editore, itself
satisfy the public that the attack o,
Mr.. eastman was anything tut tn.
venting of a little editorial spleen
provoked by some unknown, but mani
testify unworthy motive. We do no
charge the News nor its editor will
disloyalty, but it's course in this in
stance justifes quotation from tn,
New York Morning Telegraph: II
seems easy to abolish German-mad,
AyiatiOn-popp1es hit when II conoo