| Show NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER interviews the san francisco chronicle taking the kassera Kal sera sers interview as its subject discloses a fact which is not known outside newspaper offices and that is ia the weakness of many prominent men in repudiating interviews given to newspapers whenever those public utterances te rances bring c ensure censure upon them the chronicle says it appears that william bayard hale was wag so fortunate as to obtain an interview with kaiser william in the course ot of which that versatile potentate discussed such subjects as president roosevelt war and christianity the true mission 0 of f wealth the principles of architecture and the roman catholic church the article was to have been published in the december centar century y and had been printed at the request of mr hale the sheets have been burned and tile the melted and barring accidents the world will never know what kaiser william said to mr hale upon those interesting topics the article has been suppressed mr halo states because some innocent remarks of tile the kaiser printed some time ago in the london telegraph raised an international hubbub the kaiser is a man of ideas and like similar men in less exalted stations likes to talk ills his government apparently thinks that he sometimes talks too well and not wisely his chancellors have always been in hot water or in danger of hot water from the day of his accession all the topics is upon which he is iq said to have bave discoursed with mr hale seem quite proper for the kaiser or anybody else to talk about with perfect freedom but the chances are that when the german germa n foreign office saw the proofs something was found which persons disposed to make could twist to their purposes sest hence doubtless tho the ro request to mr hale not to print the interview ter view and the expense to the century company if as we presume the case the interview had bad been authorized zed for publication the loss caned baug cd by its ite suppression will be made good by the german taxpayers but if it is the public will never know it it Is to be said that the kaiser or his government has done the square thing the aut authenticity of the interview has haa not been denied and it has been stopped before it got into print that is not always tho the case with public men sometimes they lie he about it outright trusting to the influence of high position to overbear the word of the unfortunate reporter there have been public men in america who would not hesitate to blast the career cancer of a young reporter by branding him before the public as a liar when as a matter of fact ho he had told only the precise truth this tendency of public men to lie when their printed words do not make a hit bit with the public Is recognized in all american newspaper offices which Is the reason why so few interviews with important men are now printed it Is not safe it if the subject Is important unless the proof of the article has on it the 0 0 K F of the public man interviewed |
