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hearsay evidence, or, worse still, let himself be guided by his craving to be sensational, he has laid himself open not only to censure but to punishment.

In reply to this, I send to the "Times" a perfectly respectful letter, citing scores of cases, and telling the "Times" where hundreds of other cases may be found. The "Times" returns this letter without comment. A couple of months pass, and as a result of the ceaseless, agitation of the radicals, there is a congressional investigation, and evidence of atrocious cruelties is forced into the newspapers. The "Times" publishes an editorial entitled, "Prison Camp Cruelties," the first sentence of which reads: "The fact that American soldiers confined in prison-camps have been treated with extreme brutality may now be regarded as established." So again I write a polite letter to the "Times," pointing out that I think they owe me an apology. And how does the "Times" treat that? It alters my letter without my permission! It cuts out my request for an apology, and also my quotation of its own words calling for my punishment! The "Times," caught in a hole, refuses to let me remind its readers that it wanted me "punished" for telling the truth! "All the News that's Fit to Print!"

Or take the case of Henry Ford, who brings suit against the "Chicago Tribune" for libel, and cites five lies in one single news item:

Lie No. 1. That guardsmen employed by Ford would lose their places.

Lie No. 2. That no provision would be made for their dependents.

Lie No. 3. That their families could get along as best they might.

Lie No. 4. That when they returned they would have to apply for their old jobs as strangers.

Lie No. 5. That this rule applied to the Ford plants everywhere.

At the trial it was proven that all these statements were false. All the Ford workers who were drafted to Mexico had their wages paid to their families while they were away. On the other hand it was shown, through the testimony of Joseph Medill Patterson, one of the editors of the "Tribune," and a renegade Socialist, that he had ordered the stopping of the pay of all those "Tribune" men who were drafted to Europe! I quote the testimony.

"How many of your employes went to the great war?"

"About two hundred and sixty-eight."