The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-14
"THE REVIEW.
A Weekly Journal of Political
 and General Discussion.

The Connecticut Labor Press has re- ceived from the publishers the first number of The Review" of New York,
 which 1t says ''resists the minimizing drift towards radical innovation" As
 we got this number as soon as 1t was out 1t IS not necessary to read it again The Review is edited by Fabian Franklin and Harold de Wolf Fuller, who are the principal officials of the publishing company. Fabian Franklin IS a fine name for an editor but we nave our
 doubts about Harold de Wolf Fuller as far as his name is concerned all though he may be very able.
 The money to start this publication
 was subscribed i'll moderate sums by more than 100 persons i'll several cities and the money was raised under the
 following agreement: Tt is mutually understood and agreed that teh journal
 IS to be absolutely independent and that Its conduct and policy are to be directed
 exclusively by its editors" The act of
 incorporation contains the following provision: Tn the conduct of the said journal and its editorial policies, the
 editors shall not be responsible or ac- countable to the corporation for any
 op1n1on, comment or criticism lawfully
 made or expressed by them"
 TedQeTS this paper does not come under the
 head ot the capitalistic press. For year or so there has been springing LID an extremely radical chain of weekly papers that may please certain few but
 they will not accomplish much except eat up the capital put into them The
 ReV1eW was evidently started to coun-
 teract these radical journals. In this connection we quote from an article by w. J. Ghent in the Nationa, Civic Ed eratlon Review about the Nation, one l ot the most radical Weeklies and at the same time catering to the most cultured and highly educated class in this coun- | try, a paper owned principally by Oscar
 Garr1son Willard formerly proprietor
 ot the New York Evening Post. The
 Nation upholds the Soviet government of Russia. The article says:
 Of course, this editorial manner is
 a traditional one in your office, and per haps there is no escape from it. It
 comes down from the days of E. L. ! Godkln. There is, however, a difference, Godk1n scattered the largess of his
 odn1m in cynical disdain; you people do the thing 1n riotous frenzy. Your journal has long been the particular or | gan of the college professors and de-
 tached inte1lectuals, and this manner IS ! after their hearts desire. These clois- | tered savants are, in the main, a timid | folk who do hot ordinarily venture far | from their sheltered retreats. But what | they lack in contact with actual life | they make up in imaginative adventure.
 Just as shopglrls and serving maids find | escape from the trammels of everyday
 life in the glowing pages of Bertha Nj. Clay and Laura Jean Libbey, identify ing themselves with the heroines of | these romances and listening to the | ardent wooing of princelings, 1ordlings | and rich manufacturers sons, SO these l faineant intellectuals ride to glorious | adventure on the wings of your de-
 nunclatory rhetoric. Your ba ties be-
 come their battles; ard they see them
 selves the doughty victors on a thous-
 and fields.
 Now, strangely enough, you have | taken on new cliente1e-one of pro- BolShev1sts, anarchists and I. w. W.'s | find them out here the eager pur- \ chasers and hungry readers of your | journal These folk are not necessar- | fly timid folk like the intellectuals in | deed, some of them sometimes give ex- | amp1es of what is called 'rough-house' | that might make even Trotzky envious but since their wonted activities are | more and more restrained by the bruta. hand of the police and the secret ser I vice, there rises i'll them also this up-
 yelling of supposed desires, and they, too, must find imaginative adventure along the torrent of your denunciation."