| Show I Till Til I YI MO II 1 R Ito i The Tho fight n ht against is its known ns yellow Journalism to be become I como come long extremely hitter For orn Forim ft couple co plo of weeks locks a n chorus of DC protests prots s shili has hili boon been mined from every purt port of ot the time country countr against that kind of ot jour journalism Jo r which Is being In vis Ig orous terms with responsibility toh tragedy that spread gloom over the country Tho The Chicago o American now conies comes with a full page pago defense of ot Its Ita past course couie rou a It claims ch to begin with that thil the thu e protests come only from toni Incompetent J ton tent rivals Inflamed by h Jealousy and tram front time the predatory rich time tho crafty and amid the able who simo pile pilI up UI monstrous fortunes by pillaging the people 11 Inside I and outside the tho forms of 01 law 1111 c cow Not ow this is a bold hold misrepresentation of or the facts The protests have come cOmae from tho time great majority of tho the lending newspapers rs of the States many of ot which are more ably aLl edited than any an of the sheets anti per hu lisps s as widely read rend It has hu como come from Irom and oM other organizations train iron ecclesiastical anti and secular speakers speaker and It 11 continues to come line lime fill of or tho the latest protestants Is I Thom Thomas rhea as lis J 1 Cummins of ot the time International News who at nt n a meeting of u a 1 Catholic society ocl h in Philadelphia do de declared dared that the tho assassination wu WUI due In a measure to the tho Inflammatory In ut U t ot of the time press Tho plea Pie that the war on on Indecent Journalism has hams been brought on by IJ b Jealousy Is unten union untenable able bIt lOut Kut this is after nil not time the point A certain class of or the press has hOB persist persistently represented the tho White House as n the stronghold of robbery nd tho the Pres Ires ld Ident blent nt as ns an all abject weak incompetent poltroon The cabinet It lias Ima proclaimed wit was over ever ready to surrender omery par particle UrIc tide of national honor and dignity It III J has alleged that the tM army arm was to be Increased anti and on occasion used against t organized organised labor In Iii prose pros verse cue and cartoon It has hAR represented time this nations chosen hosen representatives ns nil torturing m In the blood Mood of at the tha common people the question now Is III er or such fabrication can call be treated trea d as liS legitimate journalism The Tho yellow ello Journals themselves have 1110 during them thol last couple of weeks bravely eaten c tell their own words WONS by b filling their pages with glowing eulogies In honor ot or him whom hom they th y formerly defamed butU but pie i question remains what Influences did IfIl d their defamation have ha C upon the 11 i I i o humanity In the midst ot of j hl Ii h the time drew his hits Tio on That Is a question which should n not be evaded In view of at what has t place There Is no opposition to tol toI legitimate l I criticism of or public nets acts or yf rous ou opposition to public policy Huch titi Is helpful because Inspiring and In but there thero Is a II wide differ difference ence eh etre between honest opposition that seeks s ts i s truth and defamation with no object than making money out of 01 weakness i Si press censorship is the time remedy Hut c not OttO one lie on Oil tho the Russian plan The AmerIcan people In every fY r can bo be trusted tru te to exer exert exercise cise for themselves time the th necessary cell cen dt of tho time press as II soon u IU as thu the c Influences of libelous journalism Is brought bJ home to them They fhay should make fl sure that the papers they IZ lOle edited by gentlemen and not by bt I They should Insist that if iq tone and manner of 0 newspapers lI ut rome rom to theIr homes are those tho e of ot relined r men muon antI women In lii whose com coin company comp pany p they need not be bo afraid to leave even II their children |
