The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-08-05
THE LATE Mr.. lSAACS. :"
He Suddenly Slips Out Of Town
at Midnight for Fresh
Pastures.
A Very Smooth Rascars Adven-
lures in Different Churches
and Countries
His Interesting Experience In the Nor
mon ChurCh-His Views ON Sem.
sational Journalism.

His Interesting Experisnce In the Nor
mon Church-His Views ON Sem
sational Journalism. ).
Mr.. Isaacs, Isaacson or Wexler, whatever
his name may be, lost no time in getting
out of town after the exposure at the Chris
tian church on Sunday evening. He went
to his apartments in the Porter flats, packed
up his traps and skipped away at 1:SO a. m.
on the west bound Northern Pacific train.
When Chief Berry went around to the
house in tho morning his man had gone
without leaving word Of farewell. He
was not in Helena long enough to clean up
any considerable amount of money. He
obtained hfty-dollar loan from one gem
tleman and thirty dollars from another.
His career was cut short in time to prevent
any large financial deals. It was reported
around town this morning that he had gone
to Missoula, but no one knows of his pres
emit whereabouts. Doubtless he is on his
way to fresh pastures,
Isaacs has had an adventurous career. A
tour about town yesterday found several
people who had known him In other places.
One young man attended school with him
in Vienna. He says that during his resi-
dence in that city lsaacs joined both the
Greek Catholic and the Roman Catholic
churches. He aftsrward got into trouble
and was forced to leave the country. When
next heard of Isaacs turned up in American
Fork, Utah, whore he was known az Isaac
son. A young lady visiting the residence Of
w. B.. McComas knew him in Utah and
recognized him on Sunday evening at the
h 2hn hot loo SNH - n
in American Forks two years ago. He
joined tho Mormon church and married
Miss Rowley, Mormon young lady. He
claimed to have been converted from the
Jewish faith to Mormonism in Jerusalem.
For time he edited paper at the
Fork called the Independent. Afterward he
sfn s pssus shS feoS
good speaker. and It was not long before
be occupied high position in the church.
He became first counsellor to the bishop
and often preached in the tabernacle at
Salt Lake, where he made very favorable
impression. This meteoric career ended
him and he tried other methods to arouse
excitement. He began by stealing two
watches from lady, and then followed by
raising two checks from two dollars and
i've dollars respectively to two hundred and
five hundred dollars. This turn OF affairs
aroused the good citizens OF American
Fork and they decided to rid the town OF
ceiving notice from the citizens that they
would mob him if he did not 90. SO far as
can be learned Mr.. IsaacS next turned up in
Denver, where he joined the Baptist church,
as stated in yesterdays INDEPENDENT. He
has doubtless pursued tho same course in
other towns.
During his stay in Helena he thought of
doing newspaper wo-k. He applied to the
1NDEPnSDENr for position and sent speci-
mems Of his newspaper work. Among them
was an article OH Sensational journalism.
Here are few paragraphs from the article:
Intelligence in Americans is nimble and
s s effort Thy ss osso Spenh hint ass n ra
embarrassing nor slow process; to elabor-
ate hint into details and generalities does
not require severe series Of coachings.
It is reserved for the press of America to
spread in hundreds Of thousands Of copies,
the useless, demoralizing, vice-producing
and crime stimulating stuff which is falsely
and improperly called news"
The tremendous influences of the press
for good can hardly be estimated. Can any
one say what it's influence for evil will be
when results are developed in the future?
At the height of prosperity, with money,
prestige, and whole world of interesting
news from which to Gull; when movements
every direction; when the destinies of ma
tions hang on correct enlightenment and
progress is the immediate fruit of broad
and liberal instruction, cannot the press OF
the country find something more worthy
the prayer Of their multiple sheets than the
raw and revolving minute of criminal &C.
tions and penalties.
Will not the editors pay sufficient homage
to their own culture to Danish from the
departments under their control the miser-
able and scandalous sensations which be.
fore taking home they clip from their OWE
paper, for fear they shall be read by the
family? "And lose our list of subscribersv
| Let me quote to you a noble sentiment
what signifies self?' II is not one man Of
million, but the spirit of righteousness
which must be spread. Mere selfish calcu.
lations ought not to be made on great GO
casions. should almost regret that my
own affairs were we'll when those of nations
are in peril.
There is one magic way by which tht
opinions of those may be changed who
offer Ne the news mixed, like an ola pod
rida Of a hundred elements. If the more
intellectual among us would persistently
ignore the sensation newspaper and as per
sistently buy the cleanest daily in the mar
ket, SO that thousands of readers should
to the immediate detriment of the financia
departments of such journals, doubtless
season of virtuous reform would set in
headed and advertised with the same yea
now displayed by those who must give wha
the public demand"
For. after all, the press is what we max
it. We can make or break this concen
trated power if we are fully determined
It behoyes each honorable person to act I'M
selfishly go az to further the true good O
humanity, and when all the best individual
minds and wills are pulling in the same di
rection against mass of undisciplined an,
untaueht intelligence, the newspaper mus
go with the stronger party or be split fron
end to end.
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