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Sometimes this man or that is
credited with what he never wrote
Sometimes one of prominence has
been assigned the authorship ot
some articles or poem which thev
possibly never saw.
Thus there is the poem “Paid in
Full”, which in a variety of labor
papers is published qs the work o*.
Rudyard Kipling, which it is not,
mainly because, perhaps, it han
something of the slang and realism
that marks some of Kipling’s metri
cal work. The poem is well known
and begins "We have fed you all for
a thousand years”.
Yet the sentiments therein are so
obviously foreign to anything Kip
ling has ever written, that the er
ror is quite inexcusable and shoulu
long ago have been corrected. Stilt
labor papers, because the poem
favors labor, persist in publishing
it and crediting it to Kipling.
Another error which we have
never seen before corrected, is an
advice to a young man against be
ing a soldier. This piece hc3 at
tained considerable notoriety be
cause of the fact that its publica
tion has caused the postal author
ities to threaten to prevent the pass
age of the Appeal to Reason through
the mails, because envelopes printfel
in its ollice were adorned with this
short piece.
The Appeal to Reason, the New
York Call and a number of other
quite authoritative socialist publi
cations have persistently assigned
this to the authorship of Jack Lon
don, and as far as we could see
Jack London in any of those publi
cations never saw fit to deny it.
Howover London has other jour
nalistic connections which he
esteems probably of higher import
ance than those which indiroctly are
his with the Appeal in thus credit
ing him with what he says himself
he never wrote.
In order to clarify the air there
fore, and to prevent any misunder
standing, to obtain in the working
class movement, a clearer idea of
this revolutionism of Jack London,
even though in so doing the Indus
trial Worker dissipates beautiful vi
sions which sociali- t p.'.rtv r rel
ates have had trouble in construct
ing, a communication is quoted from
the Army and Navy Journal Vol.
L1II, No. 16, and dated December
18, 1915. It is entitled “A Spirited
Denial By Jack Londou”:
To the editor of the Army and
Navy Journal:
1 have just read your editorial
mi the third column of page 387 of
your November 2 7, 1915 number
First, I want to thank you for giv
ing me the information that this
canard against me concerning my
advice to the young soldier did not
originate in the United States. As
far as I was able to trace it back,
a number of years ago, I found that
it first appeared in Santa Barbara.
California. You give me the infor
mation that first of all it was a
diatribe against militarism which
was circulated for some years in
blurope and especialiy in Gormany.
This, 1 take it, was in the days
before it was translated into the
English language, and circulated lu
the United States with my name at
tached to it.
Second, I want to discuss witn
you a note that you havo always
rung against me and which you have
rung in this latest editorial, namely
why I “permitted such a treason
against the government to go to my
discredit for reasons unexplained’ .
1 do not know how far and how
wide you trav 1. I have a roason
able belief that you do not travel si
far nor so widely as I do, nor for at
long periods of isolation from all
news published in the newspapori
ot the United Statos. Also you hav<
net had published about yoursel!
one-thousandth part of the canards
that have been published about me
You have not of yourself learned th<
impossibility of nailing a lying can
ard once it is put out against one.
This present anti-militaristic canard
I have denied, denied and denied
and denied. I have denied it in per
sonal letters, I have denied it in
porsonal interviews, I have deniea
it by lottors and by cables to Eu
rope all of which has got me no re
sults. When this canard was resur
rected, somewhere in the last few
weeks, it was published In every
newspaper in the United States, ana
I was charged with being the author
of this advice to the young soldier.
And while the head of our Post Of
fice department was debarring thl3
canard from the malls, and when
Captain William D. Finke was gett
ing widespread publicity in his at
tack on me for my authorship, and
when Major General Leonard D.
Wood was having his correct and
wrathful say about the matter, ‘‘be
lieving I had written this canard".
I did not notice the Army and Navy
Journal writing to any of the news
papers of the United States, and
proclaiming the truth that I had
long since denied the authorship of
this advice to the young soldier. All
of which means this precisely: that
once in the press of the United
States such a lie is started, it is im
possible to nail such a lie.
You have betrayed a lack of un
[ derstanding of me and my work. I
am hailed by book reviewers and
newspaper men as the apostle of the
primitive, as the father of the reo
school of fiction where nothing but
fight and blood obtain. If you have
followed my newspaper work you
will find that I have only covered
for the newspapers two kinds of
things of interest, namely prize
fighting and war corresponding. It
you will take the totality of my
newspaper work and my forty-odd
books you will find that I have done
nothing but write of and for the up
standing fighting man. I am a born
fighter myself; my people, in direct
ancestry, have fought in every war
in the United States and in the Am
erican colonies. All the foregoing
servos merely to illustrate my main
contention that it is impossible to
I nail a lie once it gets publicity In
| the press of the United States.
, Now wont you please not continue
to go after me because I have not
denied the authoriship of this can
ard which, by your own information,
arose originally in Germany?
In a recent reply to questions
asked me by the San Francisco
Bulletin concerning my attiudo on
'war I said: “War , with longer and
more widespreading intervals of
peace, seems destined always to ob
tain on this planet. The Intervals o!
peace may be a get oration long 01
even several generations long. Buf
they will inevitably be broken Hi
upon by wars that will be as com
mensurately as terrible and wide
spread and destructive.
Here are the reasons In a nut
shell: (1) Man is an animal am:
lives upon the earth; (2) Man musi
oat, and like any other animal he it
fecund; (3) the habitable planet 1
only so large and its size cannot b<
increased by man; (4) Malthus'i
law of population still holds foi
man. Despito its wars and hoavj
immigration of the 19th centur;
Europo Increased its population
froni 170,000,000 to 500,000,00'
(sic) between the years 1800 ant
1900.
(5) Man being on animal, a fe
cund animal, a fighting animal, hi
will be pressed againBt the means o
subsistence, he will again and al
ways draw the sword, whon pressei
too hard, to carve out of other man'
life a place for himself on th
earth and in the sun. This is hi
entire past history. At present h
is fighting mote horribly and mor
colosally than be ever fought b<
1 fore. i ■ I.-' n*|Wl
Wherefore, it behooves a countr
1 or nation llko. the United States t
maintain a reasonable preparedness
tor defense against any country or
nation that at any time may go out
upon the way of war to tvivo earth
space for itself out of weaker auu
unprepared nations”.
JACK LONDON.
Possibly London’s unique sciolo
gical opinions administered to the
Bulletin with the cocksurcness of
any social quack long master of the
art of phlebotomy, are better with
out any comment. But it is emi
nently desirable that he should not
be so completely misunderstood as
the credit of being the author of
what ho is pleased to term a “can
ard” should be undeservedly his.
And neither labor nor socialist
papers, any more than paper; de
voted to upstanding fighting men.
gain anything which continue to
perpetuate the false notion that
London ever wrote such stuff.
Jack London is a famous author
He has written a fow clever books
,1 which are embodied a few vor>
clever ideas of men end things,
and that he has been writing around
those few ideas ever since is not his
fault.
His is the credit of having ability
to exploit a certain very positive
view cf society as it stands, and we
have no doubt had lie the ability
and the brains ho could function
most efficiently as an American
Bernhardl if he tried.
That’s no reason however why an
entirely dfferent point of view oi
men and things should be accredited
to him than those which he does
actually hold, and London’s letter to
the Army and Navy Journal certain
ly does the working class justice in
affirming the truth a3 we t-y to do
London justice In republishing it.
London may have exploited the
socialist movement a little, but the
socialist party has without doubt
exploited London extravagantly.
Goodness knows how many social
istic neophytes have been induced to
road such stuff as Martin Eden and
the Iron Heel by reason of the ex
travagant praise extended to these
“works”. Now when those parlor
socialists are hoist with their own
petard, we hope they enjoy them
selves.
We dont want anyone to run away
with the notion that we decry ths
great ability of London. London
wrote The Call of the Wild, thai
has never been matched as a north
ern romance, and some of his short
er stories are the equal in vigor and
realism of anything that a grcatei
than Kipling might have written
The Sea Wolf is a sea story that li
an age which found admirers foi
the stuff that Clark Russell palmed
off with the tang of the salt se?
waves, comes as refreshing an ?
trade wind to a becalmed wind jam
mer, or a draft from a cool chatt)
to the stoker on a liner in the Red
Sea.
That London should have unusual
Ideas as to society as far as authors
are concerned, is due to the environ
ment which Skysail Jack passed
through, and not that to which was
admitted the distinguished author
whose war corresponding has been
not marked with brilliance. The
socialist party usualy merits the de
signation of the party of freaks ano
a novelist in the ranks was too
great an attraction to be unex
ploited.
It clears the air therefore for
everyone that London is known as j
not the author of a piece with whicn ;
he had naught to do. It removes j
from London’s reputation what he j
considers an aspersion and corrects
a wholly wrong impression prevail
ed favorably in radical quarters con
cerning London’s views on militar- 1
ism.
Certainly one can-reasonably un
derstand that as a war correspondent
who was the author of an advice of
very dubious kind to a young sol
dier, London would have been a
persona non grata to his military .
chiefs. The letter to the Army and
Navy Journal would therefore func
tion usefully in removing any suen
an erroneous impression. ^ It is no |
less desirable that the labor papers
which have been printing with ful
some approval the "Canard” should
also correct that.
The Industrial Worker nev-r has
been guilty of crediting London
with the authorship of that piece.
Without his denial it carried with
in itself elements which conveyed
an idea of improbability as to the
London authorshp. But none the
less it finds a place for the denial
so that labor exchange may copy ana
correct themselves.
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