Truth and Light (2 issues)

Windle, Charles A.; Charles P. Windle

Edité par Iconoclast Pub. Co, Chicago, 1938

Two issues of Charles Windle's long-running magazine founded in 1920 to oppose "Religious Prejudice, Communism and other enemy forces which menace Religion, Morality, the Home, and the inalienable and God-given Rights and Liberties of Mankind" (from an editorial in the Menace of Rutherfordism). Although a Protestant, Windle was particularly opposed to the anti-Catholicism espoused by groups such as the Klan and other nativist groups. Included here are Vol. IV, No. 8 (September, 1924), which includes a number of anti-Klan and pro-Catholic articles, and Vol. XIV, No. 2 ([1938]), which is titled the "Menace of Rutherfordism." This latter issue was edited by Windle's son and is an expose of the Jehovah's Witness founder, Charles Rutherford, and his denouncement of Protestantism and Catholicism. Charles A. Windle (1866-1934) was an editor, orator and political campaigner who began his newspaper career in 1897 at the age of 20 as editor of the Ottawa Free Trader (Ill.).He became affiliated with Hearst and Tammany Hall in the early 1900s, campaigned against the temperance movement and edited the Gatling Gun, a weekly Democratic paper, and the Commoner before founding Truth and Light in 1920. Windle named his publishing imprint after the controversial editor William Cowper Brann who was killed over his vitriolic attacks in his newspaper, the Iconoclast. Windle died of a heart attack in 1934, but his son, Charles P., continued with the Truth and Light. The elder Windle s defense of Catholicism may have been related to his 1897 marriage at the age of 20 to a 28-year-old Catholic woman, although the marriage didn t last. Both issues in stapled wrappers, 32 pp.; 32 pp. The earlier issue has some soiling to the wrappers; the latter one has a 3" closed tear to one leaf. Although seven institutions hold issues in WorldCat, most only hold an issue or two. N° de réf. du vendeur 14166

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Truth and Light (2 issues)
Éditeur : Iconoclast Pub. Co, Chicago
Date d'édition : 1938
Reliure : Couverture souple