Show ROOSEVELT WRITES OF THE YELLOW ri JOURNAL AND MENDACIOUS EDITORS I I I New York March 4 The first editor editorial editorial ial lal article from the tho pen of former funner Pres President PresIdent PresIdent ident Roosevelt which appears in a March issue of the Outlook deals with the tho subject of oC Journalism It 8 says ys S in part Every owner editor or reporter of ofa ofa ofa a conscientious newspaper is an asset aset of real value to the community We Ve have many newspapers news pers big bl and little of this kind But vre we also have many that are emphatically not of this kind During the last few years ears it has be become become become come evident eviden that are controlled by men who have gained wealth in evil fashion who desired to stifle stiffe honest public opinion and find in the purchased men mendacity mendacity of those who edit and write for such papers Mr Roosevelt then pays his respects to the apostles of that hideous yellow ellow journalism which deities deifies the cult of ot the mendacious the sensational and the in inane Inane Inane ane In conclusion he refers to another type of or temptation which has great fas fascination fascination for men of cultivation and which is quite as fatal to the Useful usefulness s sas as yellow journalism He says of these 5 SA h A newspaper which avoids senSation senSationalism which appeals appeal to people of oC taste tasta and intelligence may nevertheless do de them grave harm and be bet within its Us own ewa rather narrow limits an element et of ot serious mischief ml For It may and consistently practices a malign antl ntY slanderous untruthfulness which unrefined unrefined fined is as immoral as sa sensational A cultivated man of good intelli intelligence IntellIgence gence genee who has acquired the knack of saying bater things who lacks the ro TO bustness to feel at ease amon among men of or action is apt if his hw nature has any an thing of meanness Or untruthfulness to sit ait in cloistered aloof aloofness news 8 and to en endeavor denver deavor by an unceasing output of or sian slander slander der to up his hie own uneasy de desire desire desire sire to be considered superior Now a paper iper edited by men of this thia stamp does not have much popular in influence fluence but hut it may exert a real InOa ence once for evil by the way In whisk which it teaches young men of or good education edu that decent and upright men are as popularly the subjects for tor foul tout attack as the mOlt moet debased that efficiency and wickedness lS are arc Inter Interchangeable interchangeable interchangeable changeable and that the correct to tf adopt in facing the problems of of our time is one of ot sneering and supercilious p untruthfulness 5 5 |