San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-11
REVIEW OF REVIEWS.
To the Editor :

To the Editor:
If you will let this go By without
charging me space rates for il, I'll
promise to be good and let this subject
die with this article as far as l am
concerned. You may call this Il review
of reviews. But a bumptious critic
hereinafter referred to rs the b. c.
has been picking word here and
phrase there from my articles embel-
fishing them to suit his point and then
launching forth in violent criticisms on
what he has built up from the few
words so taken, using a lot of words
| he has seen somewhere without much
regard for their meaning or proper
usage.
A multitude Of crimes is laid at my
door, so TO speak. chiefly because |
saw fit to contradict some obviously
misquOtPd statements by a Mr. Finne-
gan and then spread some words on
the state of Christianity in the world
in general.
The B. c. says I'm a Briton be-
cause l rushed to the defense of that
country when the Finnegan man said
we were bamboozled. deceived and
what-not into going into the last war
because England wanted us to fight the
battle for her. As one of 'he members
of Uncle Sans Bayonet Pushers for
a couple Of years or SO, 1 certainly do
resent the insinuation that one hundred
million neople could be so fooled by any
one nation as to do what was stated.
Then after quoting a few facts to sup
port that contention, | proceeded to-
scout the theory advanced by a few
alarmstS and professional twistcrS of
the lions tail that there were hopes
in England of getting the United
States back into their dominiOns. What
n fool theory. The chief defense that
I'm accused of is the citation of the
fact that in 1S61-GJ and again in 1S9S
Britain befrieTled this nation by her
attitude when France wanted to rec
ognizc the COnfederacy and dismcmbPr
the Union and in the later year when
Germany was mrditating on helping
Spain against us. This presentation Of
historical facts convicts one of defend
ing the terrible BritOn. making me n
transplantcd one. Pretty strong evil
dCncp, ! call it. That same kind Of
evidence must make mUrderers. and
whnt-not OF lawyers who defended their
convicted clients.
The quotation Of historical facts rr-
garding Mr.. Finnegan's claims about
the kaiser is another crime, | guess.
but the Il. e. now advises me 10 settle
il with historians. as he isn't response
bic. yet he saw fiji to take the state
mcnt of facts as defense Of Britain,
| though now he makes disavowal.
The r. e. now admits that the
| United States had a right to keep its
/ ships on the high seas against the
wishes Of Germany when We were trad
| ing with the Allies. though ] was round
| ly scored rs n Briton for maintaining
/ that right in previous article.
/ i. C.'S Quccrcst stand is on foreign
trade question. when | stated the fool
! iShncss Of trying to keep from trading
| with Europe in 1919. when cotton was
selling at , cents and hundreds Of
thousands Of machiniSts out Of work
in the North. ] remember the Organi-
cation Of BUY Il Bale of Cotton move
mcnt To help the planters anil take cot
ton out Of the warehouses. Such were
the industrial conditions in the coun-
try when the war broke ont and saved
many industries financially. Isolating
ourselves from Europe at that time
certainly would not have improved mat
terS.
Now the p. c. says its all foolish
moss. this idea that we have to trade
with Europe and England. Next time
/ llf Guys NuF IbIltlNu are flllA l'uhlNl-
anyway and an efficient American NOR
chant marine will solve that problem.
But what l want to know is, if we
, aren't going to trace with Europe, why
} have merchant marine?
The next time l brought out the now
( famous ratio of 100000 TO !. My
r exact words preceding the use of this
) ratio were how many of these would
? be rcformers (who are trying to save
) us from roll-tops, short skirts, joy rirl'
: ing, movies, etc. how many of these
wouId-bc rpfOrmers, and you can sec
them on every street corner, hear Their
in every store: how many actually lead
n Christian life in their daily inter
!. course with family and friends? About
one in a hundred thousand. / said. Now
) since there are hardly more than 100.
| 900 OF them in the country, there's pos
sibly one who practices his creed. May