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 which American "dollar diplomats" were coining enormous fortunes. The "American" began the publication with a grand hurrah; it published two or three of the articles, and then suddenly it quit, with a feeble and obviously dishonest excuse—and poor Turner had to take his articles to that refuge of suppressed muck-rakers, the "Appeal to Reason."

There must have been some crisis in the office of the magazine. Somebody had evidently had a "show-down," the editors had been "taught their place." Ever since then they have been a theme for tears. Ida Tarbell, who had torn the wrappings off the infamies of Standard Oil, has forgotten the subject, while Standard Oil, after a sham reorganization, has almost doubled the value of its stock, and more than doubled its plundering of the public. Ray Stannard Baker, who exposed the financial knaveries of the Beef Trust, shed his muck-raker skin and metamorphosed himself into "David Grayson," a back-to-the-land sentimentalist—and this while the Beef Trust has multiplied four times over the profits it takes out of the necessities of a war-torn world! Finley Peter Dunne, who contributed the satires of Mr. Dooley and that withering ridicule of the idle rich under the name of "Mr. Worldly-Wise Man," has apparently fallen silent from shame. Lincoln Steffens, the one man who stood by his convictions, quit the magazine, and now cannot get his real opinions published anywhere. The "American Magazine," which started out to reclaim the industrial and political life of our country, is now publishing articles about how a little boy raises potatoes in a cigar-box, and how a man can become a millionaire by cobbling his own shoes.

I write these words in anger; but then I remember my pledge—the exact facts! So I go to the library and take down the first bound volume my hand touches. Here are the titles of a few "special articles" and "feature stories" from the "American Magazine" for January, 1918: "How We Decide When to Raise a Man's Salary." "What to Do with a Bad Habit." "Are You Going Somewhere—or Only Wandering Around?" "The Comic Side of Trouble." "Do You Laugh at the Misfortunes of Others?" "The Business-Woman and the Powder Puff: The personal story of one who has made a success and thinks she knows the reason why." "What I Have Seen Booze Do." "Interesting People: