The San Francisco call., 1897-07-01
EXPOSING "A: GROW,

The people of California are too .busily
engaged each in his own work. to pay
much attention to the vanity or.the boast
ing of others. Shooting folly as it flies is
an occupation In which no one employs
much. OF. his time or energy. tits only
when the vanity or the. :boasting becomes
a public nuisance that we turn to%iti and
take pot-shot at ;it in much the same
spirit that we throw q brick at~some over
noisy tomcat whose caterwaulings of de-
fiance; isturb the neigh borhood.~ j.:
:. The Examiner of yesterday gave us an
example of that boasting, which is.a pub
lie nuisance: Spreading something like a
peacock tail, gaudy with a thousand fakes,
spotted with scandals, stained with ind de-
cencies, and freaked like monkey gar
mented for sidesuow, il uttered araucous
roar of self-gloritcation as nerve-wearing
as the screech of the whang-d oodle in the
mountains of Hepsidam. Such vanity is
pernicious to the people who may be
deceived by 1t, and therefore while it may
not be. advisableI to kill the. thing, for
there must be newspaper for. fools in
this as in other towns, tits imperative to
shoot the stolen feathers off and show the
true nature OF the bird. =
:: Chortling in its folly the Exdrn had
the I'm pudence to claim. that it leads the
press of this City, and that what it origin
ates others initiate. We: cannot: allow
this boast :. to-, pass. ). unrebuked on
the very \ eve of the: Christian En-.
deavor convention, for. the offensive:
ness lies in the fact that. the Exdnaef efeer
exemplifies that degeneracy which. is the
corruption. of journalism. g ood people
:shut:it from their h ONES, and MOI re than
one public library has excluded it from
their read ing rooms. Itaisan. insult. 10 lhe
City:to hold the :Eranriqter up: as an .ex-
emplar. tits libel 10: accuse anot ther
paper of following its lead or Initiating
tsstyle. .There:is not a paper il, the State
charged with copying. the E1anirter til at
would not Indignantly repudiate* the
charge as the inyention: of "a malicious
:andslying enemy. -.=*' s s ~:
/ The Era miner: has originated nothing.
EVENTS corruption came from:contagion
with the lowest class of New York papers.
It has been the imitator. cf a depravity
more Ingenious than its own. ! A New
York newspaper sent a woman through
+ the slums to see how often: she. would be
insuIted.: The Examiner copied the zen
terprise." A New. York newspaper sent a
woman to fall ON the street in a feigned
.fainting 6t.*> The Examiner initiated the
"tenterprise." Anew York paper sent q
man. TO fall from n fefry-boa to make q
sensation; The .E1dminer repeated the
"enterprfse." All its sensations are Sec
ond:hand and STALE ~ -. ~; = -:
+ Though the number Of Examiner freak,
may be counted by the thousand, it has
not had one that was: novel. :AH: its
originality has been confined to its tele-
graphic columns 1t has invented dis
patches from the Emperor OF China and
other dignitaries, but even%then it was
unable to invent anything new for the
dignitaries to- say. During the war be-
| tween Greece and Turkey it published
columns of so-called delayed dispatches
which had appeared in The CALL a week
before. 1t has borrowed, stolen, initiated,
copied rig ght and left, but most Of its TAX
/ ings have been from the New York paper
which originated freak. journalism: and
which continues to lead the. Erdminer q
reeling dance through the s!ums of vice
and he haunts of CRIME: ~
l. The CALL always set the example of O
clean paper, bright and newsy, and when
it came into the hands of the present
management the Examiner for a long time
initiated 1t. The Examiner copied THE
CALL. headlines THE CALL ME thod of Civ
ing prominent place to coast news, and it
followed The Gales lead in getting East
ern dispatches, For time it looked as if
the. Examiner. was going to be decent
paper, and we publicly compflmented Mr..
Hearst on his work. Thena change came.
The. Examiner began to follow New York
models: instead of those of THE CALL and
the result: is a earrion- crow freaking it in
peacock plumes. 1t is necessary TO shoot
it. For the sake of the City We cannot
permit IL to deceive the Christian Endeav-
orers. j. -.
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