One
evening a number of young men raided the Zenith Socialist Headquarters, burned
its records, beat the office staff, and agreeably dumped desks out of the
window. All of the newspapers save the
Advocate-Times and the Evening Advocate attributed this valuable but perhaps
hasty direct-action to the American Legion.
Then a flying squadron from the Good Citizens’ League called on the
unfair papers and explained that no ex-soldier could possibly do such a thing,
and the editors saw the light, and retained their advertising. When Zenith’s lone Conscientious Objector
came home from prison and was righteously run out of town, the newspapers
referred to the perpetrators as an “unidentified mob”.
(from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis)
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