Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-02

A WItheriBg DenuneiatiOn by
Joaquin Miller.
PhIladslphIa Cor. courIsr.Journal.

As my friend drove me back from
the thirty mile drive in the greatest
park in all the world, | asked him
how it was that this city, without any
special commercial and its single line
OF ships for Europe. had grown to such
boundiess dimensions. BE quietly
drove me tdsOme Of the factories for
answer.
And now, would you like to see
all the factories Of Philadelphia before
leaving our cityH
well, yes, | think should; the
persons employed all seem 50 happy,
healthy, content and comfortable that
| should enjoy seeing all the factories
Of Philadelphia, | think"
When we got fairly back in the car
riage and the robe over our legs, my
wealthy and impressive friend said:
I'VE have $4,000 Of these factories; we
have 100000 persons employed"
As we drove home, | asked: What
is your next greatest thing in Phila.
delphia2'
Our city hall aud its contemplated
tower"
And your next greatest
George w. Ohilds, sir.
| was silent and said no more all
the way to the gate. l remembered
the great Centennial celebration ut
this mans marble halls. Grant. the
Emperor OF Brazil, thousands Of
others. All, yes, Childs is great and
good. He deserves the gratitude, the
admiration of every American Of en-
terprise for thu most generous manner
in which he has always advertised his
own chAEtiesl
THE NEWSPAPER WAR AND WARRIORS
when rcgues fall out" etc. The
time has come, perhaps, to call atten-
ton to the censorship Of the self
elected censors. | am afraid the
American newsp lper--I mean the
colossal corporation without q soul,
the newspaper which has no heart, no
personality or purpose, but TO make
money-is not quit as incorruptible as
Cato was.
1t may be my wild, Western educa
ten, but somehow | always want my
newspaper to have a sort Of response
BILE personality. And | like to look
up to the head Of that paper as | do to
my clergyman. | not only want the
news, but | want his opinion of the
news; his honest advice, his best judg>
ment. But | do not find this true 10
any great extent now. And it is
greatly tabe deplOred. Money! Money!
Money!
VI course, your paper must make
money. So must your clergyman. But
you don't quite want him to lie to you
to get it, to advise you to use this pats
ent medicine, and patronize this aud
that dime museum. Il is safe to say
that any New York newspaper is a
whole brOadside Of lies, lies that are
paid for, praise and pufs of many
things of doubtful quality and odor.
When leeturing at one of the chief
colleges Of this great country, one Of
the Professors earnestly called my at
tention to the Personals" of one of
these great money grabbing monsters
Look here, said he, and be took
from his pocket book dozen or so lit.
tie ragged bits Of print. These we're
taken from silly and green young girls.
You can see that they have been passed
about among each other till they are
dim and threadbare. They read the
vile insinuations and suggestions held
out here, and they all get excited, and
in some cases they get their heads
turned. Their studies are interrupted.
They get bad ideas Of life 10 the cities.
Sometimes they run away and 20 to
ruin" Money! money! all for money
And yet this paper gives us columns
on columns Of self glory and adulation
almost daily. OF course no one dares
dispute or question, for to have the
enmity Of this monster is to suffer
greatly in your good name and bust.
ness.
The time is opporlune to call atten-
ton to the mendacity and shame
less humbuggery Of this American
newspaper, And | am afraid there
are many more in the land fashioned
after its terrible make up. This pa.
| per-and others Of its pattern-claimH
to lead the people and guide them 70
liberty and to light. Why God bless
you, il the people wanted Ethiopian
darkness to>day, duals, debauehery
drunkenness, this same paper would,
aud Tor good reasons, be the first "a
furnish such things. These loud
moulhed papers do not lead the peo.
pie. The people lead such papers
But what Cato shall tell Cato Of his
sins?
| happened to be guest under tn.
same roof where the great and good
DR.. Livingston made his home on hi
first famous return from Africa, when
be was found" A broad grin wen
over the house at the audacity, anC
mendacity, too, Of this American
paper. But We on this side gloried II
American enterprise, and not only tol
Grated, but half believed the Who'll,
story. True, the good old missionarl
refused to stay "iJund," even whei
found Of such great cost and peril
This was unkind 10 Dr.. Livingstone
de should have left bis life work anC
come away, or at least admitted tina
he had been lost. Money money
all for money! But this pape
has so twined aud wormed itsel
about the dauntless and immorta
deeds Of De Long and bis men in tn
frozen North, that one is appalled, an
hesitates before these dead men lyin
there in the snow; the last dead man
hand pointing pitifully up to heaven
Enough to say they we're induced Their
by the advertising schemes OF a news
paper They died there in the sno,
that this monstrous newspaper nigh
live and thrive. | say il,
MONEY ALL FOR MONEY
A few months ago our greatest an
best American died. 0fcourse ther
was but one topic Of talk. | was Oh
at dinner aud wrote three little verse
merely embodying what men said Ii
lines and the sentiment were in III
air, 10 fact. | read them at Dime,
One Of the gentlemen present called
cab, gave me his card to managin
5 editor, and | drove down and deliver
! ed the lines in person. They appearo
Q next morning in italics; andifthei
s are ten papers in the Republic thu
did not quote aud credit these lines
/ the liberality and enterprise Of tn
4 paper have not heard Of them Sc,
= ing this papers persistent praising
y its liberality and enterprise, bega
a TO inquire Of its reporters, editors az
correspondents, aud found that the
y according to the statements Of som
+ were literally skinned.
g Determined TO look into this,
: called at the glass window to get a fe
d hundred dollars Of generosity for pi
e for my lines, for could not quite b
lleVe such meanness could exist md