The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16
DAILY NEWSPAPER SITUATION OF
Twin CITIES NO BETTER With
MINNESOTA "STAR" IN FIELD
WHY DO DAILY PAPERS
DEAL In FALSEHOODS?


group of men set forth upon an ac-
tivity which was supposed to result
in the establishment of a newspaper
which would fearlessly tell the truth.
pointing out emphatically that no
individuals or special interests would
be able to control the editorial pol
icy of this newspaper.
It was not strange, therefore, that
a large rumber of people in Mime
sofa looked forward to the appear
ance of an independent newspaper
which would dare ia publish the truth
and nothing but the truth. Many
people all over he state went down
into their jeans and purchased stock
in this proposed newspaper. Event
ually, the Minnesota "Star" appeared
Its first issue was greeted with glee
but as the days went by, even the
staunchest supporters of the enter
prise began to realize that the Min
nesota "Star" was as unfair as any
Of the other metropolitan dailies in
the Twin Cities. Each day proves
conclusively that the Minnesota
"Star" does not intend to be a news
paper without bias. Minnesota jour-
nalism was never more cursed than
when the "Star" appeared on the
scene? Robert M. LaFollette is re-
ported to have made the statement
during the Shipstead-Kellogg politi-
cal battle, that, from what little he
Rad seen of the "Star', he wished
that that daily would be as fair to
the other side as it is to its own
side. That clearly states the editor
lal situation in which the "Star" finds
itself.
Sc far as the Ku Klux Klan is con-
verned, the "Star" has been just as
malicious as any of the dailies of the
xept press. Recently, the "Star" came
out editorially re-emphasizing a
mess of lies, which point to the Ku
Klux Klan as the instigator of the
Mer Rouge murders. Surely the ed
itor of the "Star" knows the ia It's.
He has revealed himself unfit to fiji!
the editorial chair of the "Star" thru
his deliberate distortion of facts per-
tairing the Mer Rouge affair. u
a man up a tree, it looks as if the
editor of the Minnesota "Star" is
more concerned about damning the
Klan than he is presenting the facts
relative to Klan matters. In this
he is not any different than the edi-
tors of he metropolitan dailies of the
United States. He has tried to hang
the Mer Rouge affair on the Ku Klux
Klan, when Investigations have
proved that the Klan is absolutely
innocent. By little evasive questions,
he makes an effort to give a SEM
blance of truth to a deliberate false
hood. By so doing, he writes him
self down as a newspaper man who
lets fancies take the place of facts.
Bob Schuler, of Los Angeles, rs
the editor of Schuler's Magazine,
one of the fairest and most fearless
of publications in the United States.
The Reverend Schuler is not a Klans-
man, but, nevertheless, he is not
afraid to lay before the people
facts. Dear Reader, we leave it to
you. The Minnesota "Star" said we
did-facts say we didn't. In order
to present the matter properly, we
shall retell the story of the Mer Rouge
murders, as it appeared in Schuler's
Magazine for December. You can't
accuse Schuler's Magazine of being
Ku Klux publication, for it's moth
ing of the kind. We present, as fol-
lows, Bob Schuler's article:
Something altogether new and
startling has appeared, hidden over
among the ads of the dailies. DIR.
John A. Langford and DR.. Charles
w. Duvall, unquestioned authorities
as pathologists of national reputation,
who conducted autopsies on the two
mutilated bodies that were supposed
to have been those of Watt Daniel and
T. F. Richards, Of the "Mer Rouge
mystery" have come forward with a
voluntary statement to the effect that
the bodies examined by them could
rot have been in the lake, from which
they were supposed to have been
taken, more than .forty-eight hours,
and that such was their verdict at the
time they examined the bodies.
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