Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-02-25
SOME NOTED OPINIONS OF "THE NEW
JOURNALISM"

SOME NOTED OPINIONS OF "THE NEW
JOURNALISM"
Sam Walter Foss, the New Eng
land poet has written a poem "The
Oesspools of our Times" in which
he characterizes the sensational news
paper in Virile Rhyme.
John Gllmer Speed, editor of Les
lies Weekly charges that Journals
of the extreme New Type" are not es-
sentially newspapers They scramble
and scheme for all the catch pennys
sensationalism, commences, and vul-
garity, after these are attacks upon
morality and religion. land he
adds), And a woman! has anybody
seriously considered the degrading
effect of the "New journalism" upon
the many women who in the present
day earnestly endeavor-at first to
earn respectable livelihood by
writing for the press, but after
initiation and a brief course of ex
perlence in the newspaper business
as it is placticed now, their nature
becomes "subdued to what it works
in" namely, corruption, and they
stop at nothing 80 long as there is
promise Of notorlety. land finishes
by an appeal.) Let the women, and
mothers end teachers cooperate with
.thosgof their husbands and brothers
who demand a decent civilized news
paper or none at all, to boycott the
new" journalism that ought never
to have been let loose.
We may be behind the times and
are not up to date In knowing much
about women IN general especially
newspaper women, but we have
never to our knowledge read or
heard of notorious woman writer
or reporter writing up the degrading
and immoral scenes that happen
every day and night in our large
cities. and we have known women
who have worked on those large
newspapers and they were never
called upon to write out or report
such "sensatlons," they did not even
correct copy where such scenes were
wildly written up for the paper, and
we are again in the opinion given
not long since, that if the newspapers
were turned over to the women there
would be many stems Of interest
left out, and columns that could not
be filled with anything but articles
entitled "Blood on the Moon" would
be left blank, but If this sensational
Ism" is fostered and allowed to pro-
coed the result may be far worse than
pen picture now given of it. 1t
certainly would decrease the number
of women writer's for the press, es-
pecislly reporters, and many a
woman would be compelled to give
up her present bread-winning oc-
cupatlon before she would be Sub
dued to what she worked H."
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There are two statues erected to
women in the United States one at
New Orleans in honor of Sister Mar
garet the great philsnthropist, and
the other one at Troy, N. Y, in honor
of Emma Willard, erected by the
Emma Willard association. The
project to erect one to the memory
of Harriet Beecher Stowe in Hart
ford is under discussion.
Mrs. Theodore w. Birney original
ed the movement for the National
Congress of Mothers, held in Wash
lngtor, D. O., in this month. She
presented the subject first before the
Mothers meeting at Cbatauqua in
1895.
In a recent discussion before a
womsn's club concerning the com
parative merit of writings OF Ian
Maclaren, James NJ Barrie and
Samuel II. Crockett, the argument
which carried the day for the
chronicler Of Thrums was that Barrie
never uses superfous word" This
verdict is commented upon as q great
significance, showing that the critical