Article October 3, 1901 Issue

A Demand for Fair Play

CLARENCE A. BUSKIRK

Indianapolis Journal

THE following vigorous words of the Hon. Clarence A. Buskirk, ex-attorney-general of Indiana, will be read with much interest:—

To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal.

Christian Scientists are not seeking to proselyte through the newspapers. Their opponents, however, have been engaged in the work of attacking them and their doctrine by means of very frequent articles in the newspapers. These attacks have not been argumentative, but have been filled with false and malignant statements and abusive names and epithets. A part of them have been fake news items of alleged deaths occurring in Christian Science households. Three of the latter class I have investigated and exposed during the last six weeks—one of them as to the "Eberty" case in Kosciusko County, one of them as to "Captain Hubbell's wife," and to-day one of them the "Hamilton, O., case." Various newspapers printed these fake specials in good faith of course, but would their columns be open to "specials" concerning deaths of infants and others under drug treatment, with abusive and misleading headlines and comments?

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