Did Collier's retract? Did it apologize?
/ Did it pretend that something ((bout an Illi
nois Mynching had slipped into its .columns,
A Weekly Paper Edited by THOS. E. WATSON and J. D. WATSON
Atlanta, Ga., Thursday, December 9, 1909
without the knowledge of its editor, as it now
does ?
Oh, no. In its issue of April 17, 1909, it
bungled and floundered, in a lame effort to
prove, that the anti-Prohibitionists were man
ufacturing falsehoods, against Collier's, for
the purpose of breaking the force of Collier's
attack on the saloons!
A barefaced subterfuge. Concerning these
.anti-Prohibitionists, Collier's used this lan
guage—
“ They take an editorial of ours in which we
give reasons why a prompt court trial is more ef
ficacious than the judgment of a mob. Among
other things we had occasion to mention a cer
tain class of women . . . victims of man. . ..
