Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1918 — Wells Doesn’t See It Through. [ARTICLE]

Wells Doesn’t See It Through.

An edifying little .wrangle between Messrs. Wells and Jerome has been adorning the correspondence columns of the London Daily News. Mr. Jerome wrote something about a “League of Reason.” Mr. Wells then saddled Mr. Jerome with the elegant reproach of “slobbering with love and forgiveness about the neck of the kaiser, the crown prince, Reventlow and the Krupp family.” Mr. Jerome, very naturally, retorted that lie had done nothing of the sort, whereupon Mr. Wells criticised Mr. Jerome for holding opinions which Mr. Jerome subsequently stated he did not hold. After a few more interchanges of compliments the editor of our contemporary has printed a further letter of Mr. Jerome’s, despite a pressing invitation of his for further remarks by Mr. Wells, with the intimation, “This correspondence is now closed.” This embargo places Mr. Wells tn the unusual position of being unable to have ♦he last word.