South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-05
Other Editors Than Ours
CHIEF OF THE ORDER OF THE PEARL GREY ASS.
(Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

Whenever the public wants to know what John Pier
pont Morgan thinks it reads what Harvey. his
vassal, writes in the North American Review-and then
knows Every enemy of the prohteer in the realms
of Big Business has beer constantly maligned and lied
about by this supercoUs intellectual snOb. Every sin
gle Of the great leaders who have made posi-
BILE the miracle of achievements has been perse
cuted by his poisoned pen Because Prest Wilson had
too much respect for public opinion to place
cabinet he assaied the president directly and in
directly when he damning with faint praise.
He it who first discovered that Daniels is
'nncapoop,' a country editor" and incompetent, a
sissy and the shameful fusade of misrepresentation
and falsehoods which for time colored public opinion
were of his
Mr.. Daniels was net popular with the element on
which the colonel thrfes Mr. Daniels the big
grafters from his department saved to the people mill
lions of dollars that thereby lost to the crooks
and that in bad taste.
Now the public knows and comedies that everything
that Harvey wrote about Daniels lie.
A year and Harvey began his silly attacks
on sec'y Baker following the line laid down in his
assaults on Daniels and inspired by the same sinister
motives
When Baker promised 5000 men in France before
the year out. the colonel ridiculed. lambasted,
and denounced Now have almost 2 600 men in
France with the practical certainty the
year is shall have five times the number Of
soldiers that Baker promised. Mr. Harvey was
poor a prophet patriot.
When Baker went to the first time the colonel
wrote that he had served his country by going
1t has since developed that the colonel sometimes
writes words Of wisdom by mistake For Baker
ranged for the brgadng of troops with those Of
allies and Baker submitted behalf of the unfit
cation command the document pronounced by Lloyd
George the most remarkable military document of the
war And the strength OF that document have
a unified command
Now Baker again in In his so-called war
weekly" Harvey has something enthusiastically nane
to say upon the subject. Take this
AN unconfrmed rumor comes by grapevine
! telegraph probably Mr.. Morgan's private wre)
| that when ne witnessing the beginning of the
great American drive at St. Mihei, Of the
very ablest public officials that the president has
known began to realize that the is not
5000 miles away
! And in another place:
we must not forget that the great victory at
! st. Mihiel won in spite of the fact that the
! secretary present Had ne been
there. there is no telling what might have hap
! pened."
And in another place:
Thank goodness the pacifst secretary OF
| three thousand miles away. We do not
that if he had been here the president would not
have taken the stand he did against the Bridge
port strikers"
fury coarse ignorant editor of the
est, the North American Review ii is a revea-
ton. such trashy contributions to the literature OF
the beneath reply. They can only make an
impression the man who is great as the
! colonel
And now we have an indication Of how the coloneTs
Examinations against the administration OF the
president received in circles in the following
letter:
"Sr: Some time ago I wrote asking you for
/ number of copies Of the Weekly o g on
| reading tables Y. NJ. c. A buildings the
naval training station You very kindly replied Of
fering o copies each week and during
an these weeks they have been coming regularly
! I want to thank you for your courtesy and gen
crosby sending these copies.
At the same time. however, am going to ask
you 10 discontinue them. Ny 1 may state
quite frankly. We have objection to any paper
that differs with the administration politically, but
| when a paper assumes the attitude toward
| government policy that the War Weekly is assum-
ing. especially in a critical time like the present
il seems to very wise for put that pa
per into the hands OF the sailors in Uncle Sans
service; and. therefore, while appreciate your
kindness shall not be able 20 this paper
reading tables any longer Very truly yours.
-. LESLIE LOBINGLER. Educational Secretary
That letter Is enough 10 the Col Harveys and
his masters Criband the colonel knows him And WHY
30 places the colonel in his proper place the chic
OF the order OF the Pearl Grey ASS" He is evdent,
an for IL has been written that the knoweti
the pearl grey variety Riley explained the mean
ms: a pearl my dear. is who has beer
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