Editorial November 10, 1906 Issue

MISREPRESENTATION CONDEMNED

Archibald McLellan

The very general protest which has followed the recent publication of false and sensational reports regarding our Leader, Mrs. Eddy, is a hopeful sign of the times, inasmuch as it indicates that a spirit of fair play and decency animates the newspapers of the country, notwithstanding the methods used by some few sensational journal. Under the caption. "Editorial Comment," we are printing in this issue a number of editorials from papers widely distributed throughout the United States, which leave no doubt of the security of Mrs. Eddy's position in public esteem, and the general abhorrence of such means as have been employed in the latest efforts to misrepresent her and her work.

We believe the following excerpt from an editorial in the Pasadena, Cal., News to be typical of the way in which such methods of journalism are regarded by newspaper men in general, and from other comment that we have heard there is no doubt that newspaper readers share the same view. The News says:—

"In every profession and calling are those who contribute nothing to its credit and those who positively detract from its honor. Newspaper men are no exception. Journalism may well disclaim, if it can those 'news' purveyors who have persistently hounded Mrs. Eddy and intruded themselves into her private affairs, sending broadcast every now and then false and often malicious reports, even reporting her death on several occasions.

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