New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1918-03-20
Whut We ThSmk About II.

We have no personal lntormatlonl
of any action taken by committee of
the State Editorial Association, but if
the headliners appearing in the Sat-f
urday morning issues of the daily press
of the Twin Cities are based upon fact,
then we Uere fired bodily from tie State
Editorial Association. To those of our
friends who may be worrying that some
thing direful has befallen us, we want
to say that such is not the case. Wei
have lost nothing. Possibly We have
gained by this procedure. 1t, certainly
cannot be a loss to be disassociated
from an Association which will permit
committee to dismiss a member
from the Association without preferring
charges against him and giving him a
chance to be heard in his own behalf,
even tho he may wish to offer no defense.
We have always fought autocracy
and have been waging the battle of tie
common people. We have opposed
some of the graft that our own profession
is guilty of and will continue to do so.
We have made a study of social and
economic conditions in this country
and have tried thru the columns OF
! our newspapers to show tie injustice
of certain of our social conditions and
| have tried to educate our readers to
higher plane Of thought. We have
! called attention to the dastardly and
atrocious methods employed by capital
to force labor to it's knees. We have
! raised our voice against tie notorious
! gang in San Francisco that is trying to
railroad Tom Mooney to the galloWs
: on rerjured testimony, cause which,
has even attracted TIE attention OF
President Wilson wfo saw fit to appoint
| a commission to make an inveStle alton
and which has in it's report stated that
! Mooney had no fair trial. We have
always stood aloof from tie crowd that
has looked upon tie newspaper game
simply from tie standpoint OF dollars
| and cents and of exploitation and not
from tie standpoint Of building character
and developing tie firer traits OF man
hood and womanhood.
| Under the circumstances we cannot
say that we have lost anything in partlc-
ular by losing membership in the state
organization, which makes little or no
effort to build up tie consciousness OF
it's members to their duty as educators
of their readers but tacitly encourag es
tkem to set all they can and keep all
they set. We have met lot OF good
fellows" among tEe&rewsparer men and
women, some of wi ON will rot approve
of the high handed methods Of this
editorial committee OF autocrats but II
anyone thinks we have Keen Inundated
by the action taken, tx ey have hit wide
of the mark. We have no malice
toward them. We pity them, for tt eli
failure to see and grasp tie larger things
in life.
WkenIit comes to true loyalty, we car
give some Of the gentlemen who have sal
in Judgment on us cards and spaces
A man to be true loyal American either
: must not have a craven Heart and no
even our enemies have had tie ten.erit!
to accuse us of cowardly and uncer
= handed methods and acts. We hav
always fought in the oren and viii
continue to do so. If tie committe
feels as cheerful about what they hav
e done as we feel about it tEen they hay
every reason to congratulate Themselves
t ! r
, rno,nht With Tho Goods