To the Editor of the "Nortg-Cuina Dairy News."
Sir,—Our attention has been called to a letter published in your issue of November 4, accusing the "Literary Digest"? of partisanship: in discussing the Irish problem. Apparently the writer of the letter misapprehends our position. What we aim to do is to collect and present the public opinion of this and other countries on all sides of all important questions by examining carefully the leading newspapers and quoting them in our columns. This is done purely for our readers' information, and without any comment of our own.
We are accustomed to receive letters from both sides in every question that comes up for discussion, each accusing us of favouring the other, whether in war, politics, or religion. As a matter of fact, we favour none, but present all sides from time to time without bias or partiality, on the policy that in a free and fair field where every idea is given a chance for its life, ° thd truth must inevitably win its way. It would be impossible for us to misrepresent or give a biased or distorted report of public opinion without immediately losing public confidence, which would be suicide al; and the fact that we have pursued our present policy with steadily growing: public appreciation for over 30 years, is sufficient proof' of our integrity of purpose. Of course, it-may often be true that a reader will dislike our articles reporting the attitude of the press on this or that subject, especially a time when feeling is running high, but in such cases ha should blame the press and not blame us for reporting what they say.
In our treatment of Irish questions wa receive letters from both Unionist and Sinn Fein readers, each declaring that we ave favouring the other side. Thus one read: er calls our magazine "an English propaganda organ,'' while the writer of the letter published in your paper says our policy "is one calculated violently and unjustly to prejudice the mass mind in America against the English Government and people.' These opposite allegations, of course. cancel each other, and are the best possible testimony to the fact that we are holding the scales perfectly even.
Now to come down to facts, tha best light we can afford on our strictly judicial attitude on Trish questions, as well as on all other topics, is to reveal our practice @uring the ast year. In_ that neried we published 27 articles on. Trish subjects. some of them discussions of Irish problems and others descriptive and narrative vecards of things in Ireland. In these articles we quoted the strongest materia? we could find on both sides from bath pro-Irish and_pro-British sources. Among the Irish
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