The San Francisco call., 1896-11-10
INDECENT JOURNALISM.

We believe, and make the statement after
long and earnest effort of the memory, that
the New York Journal is positively the worst
newspaper We can recall. Under the mask of
procuring the news IL has inaugurated the
practice of filing the columns of its daily
issue with the cheapest, shallowest sensation,
while Its Sunday issue isAeven of a lower order
than the Police Gazette or Standard. lis arti-
cles are mere cloak for all that is morbid
and unhealthy, its illustrations (done with
Ger tain French chic and cleverness that makes
them all the more danger ous) are o mere ex-
cuse for indecency.
AS examples of the former run over the
scare heads of articles taken at random from
one OF the Journals recent Sunday issues:
"for Gore; Shocked by Girls Who Wear
rights and Dance for Charity ;"Camille D'Ar-
vlie Refuses TO Appear as Mother Eve" !;
known In Many Clubs, Now. in CeIl'; ;
James Waterbury, Millionaire and Most FASH
lonaois Man in New York, Now Poor Clerk
IN hope Walk; "Alan Dale on Actors Who
Iravei on Their Shape; "a Society Girl in
trousers; Razor Strops of Human Skin," All
these with appropriate illustrations-Dixey's
legs, kelcey's trousers, etc. Hardly any COM
ment is necessary. The public asking for
truth and news is answered by a sketch of
MT. Dixey's legs and pictures of undressed and
haif-dressed women. One of the features" Of
the Journal, which the editor has advertised
with sound of trumpets, is Stephen Cranes
'Ihe Tenderloin as 1t Is." 1t is immaterial
who wrote the article, Stephen Cranes name
Notwithstanding, 1t is the veriest filth. We
have yet TO see even the Police Gazette de-
scend TO such depths.
The article on Mr.. Waterbury can move the
intelligent reader only to a sense of indigna-
tion against the cowardly and hypocritical
attack upon the gentleman of whom 1t treats
IL is striking q ma yyb ha is 80
making capital out of his misfortunes, under
the contemplate guise of praising American
grit and this unspeakable sheet with its
morbid sensations, its gross exaggerations, its
absurd and pelpable lies, its rank obscenity, is
sown broadcast in the streets of New York
hnding its way fnIo the school and the home
to be read By young boys and little girls. Its
hypocrisy is, perhaps. Its worst crime, for the
New York Journal is not frankly, honestly in
decent, as are the French papers 1t attempts to
initiate, but cloaks its nastiness under the
sembiance of worth ana enterprise.
small wonder that Lie has begun its
vigorous campaign against the mission of the
Daily" The good wishes of every honest
journalist is with that ad mirable little weekly
1t is precisely such dirt as is found in the
Journal that has brought the American press
into such i'll odor
The Western prototype of the New York
Journal is the San Francisco Examiner, owned
by the same man and conducted on the same
lines. The following comm unication, which
we have received from a well-known attorney
OF this City who participated in the Republi-
can parade oflast Saturday, is self-ex planative:
Editor Of The Ware: have been a subscriber 10
the San Francisco Examiner for several years
have stopped that paper forever, and numerous
friends have pursued the same course in conse-
quence OF the Examiners attitude during this
CampafQn. i have this m in
the daily papers, hence write you concerning it.
Upon the day OF the Republican parade (iast Satur
day. there stood in front of the Examiners office
what appeared to oe a party Of hired hoodlums all
wearing Bryan badges and holding up large silver
collars similar to those with which the Examiner
office was decorated. These hired rufans made 1t
their business 10 give voice TO boots and derisive
shouts at the sson as it passed. and hiss and
insult the participa IS in the parade. They used
every means within the power Of such a mongrei
brood to disturb the procession and its partici-
pants. Witnessed this proceeding with q good
deal Of indignation and read subsequently the
Examiners account of the paraIe and the way IL
was received along The line OF march, make free
TO say that outside of the hired men who s ood In
front of the Examiners Office that papers account
Of the reception of the parade along the line OF
march was an Infamous falsehoof.
May inquire of you how it Is that the Examiner
finds IL necessary To cater only 10 the low element
OF society, and never TO decency?
The writer of this letter only expresses what
we have heard from many other sonrces. The
trouble with what our correspondent is
pleased to call the respectable or decent ele-
ment of society is that they do not readily re-
sent wrong or injustice heaped upon them
by daily paper. 1t is different with the mob
Let the Examiner contain the slightest refer
ence antagonistic to any of the indecent ele-
ments OF society, and at once the business
office is alarmed by number of orders to stop
tne Examiner. This breeds whole some fear
of this class of subscriber. What is known as
the respectable element of society seldom re-
sorts 10 this method of showing its disappro-
baton, and as that end of society does not in
terfere with the business Office or create any
alarm therein IL is not considered as being of
enough consequence TO please 1t is apparent
the Examiner has suffered number of
"stops" within the past week, for within day
It's tone has been considerably modified. II
the respectable clement will insist on taking
paper which continues to be an enemy TO
responsibility, then it clearly demonstrates
that its lack of respectability does not cost
anything.-The Wave