The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-27
SO CALLED YELLOW JOURNALISM WNDl-
GATED.

The events Of the past six weeks prove
conclusively that the New York journal
is Americas greatest newspaper. 1T
pleads guilty to a sensationalism that
prints all the news from freshest sources,
and often before its contemporaries
have realized the Importance of the news
which it's correspondents have given in
detail.
From the day that the Journal res
| cued Miss Cisneros, it is mainly due to
| its policy that the horrors of Spanish
rule in Cuba and the terrible sufferings
of the Cubans have been made known
to the world. The reports of the Amer
lean consuls, giving the truth as printed
| daily in the Journal, found q sepulchre
in the basement of the State Depart
ment 1T is not too much to say that
but for the faithful pen pictures in the
Journal, the American people would not
to-day know of the cruelty and sarbarity
which moved the Senate as that august
body has not been moved iIl a generation.
The speeches of Senators Proctor,
Gallinger and Thurston have confirmed
the early accounts which the Journal
and other so-called yellow journals print
ed weeks ago. When they appeared in
the Journal, the mugwumps and the adj
vOcates of peaceatany-p denounced
the Journal as Il sensational and unre-
liable sheet and the Journals correspOu
dents as liars and writer's of fiction, fit
only to be read by the vicious. The
Journals accounts of the suffering and
cruelty were confirmed in every particu-
lar by the three Republican Senators,
and men who denounced the paper as q
falsifier now say that after Proctors.
Gallingers and Thurston's speech this
country must intervene. When they
show faith in the statements by these
Senators they convict themselves of
shutting their eyes to facts that have
long been known to all who followed the
reports of the special correspondents of
the Journal and other yellow journals,
so-called.
The days Immediately following the
Maine disaster, the Journal showed that
it could not have been an accident or an
internal explosion, but that the Maine
was blown up by external causes. Sec |
rotary of the Navy Long and other mem
bers Of administration, including every
member of the cabinet except one, ac-
cepted the accident theory-sa theory that
discredited the capacity of the best
American naval officers, for Capt. Sigs- |
bee is second to none of our great Off |
GERS. The Journal combatted that theo-
~ 10y evidence from Havana. The re-
port Of the Board of Inquiry confirms
the Journals early publications.
From the first the Journal has main |
tanned that no financial indemnity could |
atone for the murder of the American
sailors ON the Maine. The papers close
to the administration at first took the |
view that upon the report Of the Board |
of Inquiry, the government would re-
quire Spain to pay heavy indemnity, |
and upon the payment of the sum de- |
manded the disaster would be "a closed |
incident" The bold and manly course |
OF the Journal, backed by other yellow |
journals" soon made it clear that the |
American people were in no humor to
accept blood money" and that the indie |
pendemce of Cuba must be exacted by |
the United States. One by one the pa
pers have come around TO that position |
until now it is not suggested in any quar-
ter that the payment of money by Spain
would make the murder Of the Maine
officers and the Cuban horrors ''a closed |
incident"
There are no doubt many things in the
yellow journals" that deserve criticism.
But their most severe critic has not
shown them lacking in the true type of
Americanism. We have instanced the
course Of the Journal because it has
been the most conspicuous of the school
of yellow journals" and has been tho
special object of denunciation by the ul-
ira conservative press. 1T is not because
the people like stories of crime that they |
take the yellow Journals" 1t is be-
cause they want the news. They know |
that the Journal hires the ablest cores
pondents and spends the most money to
get the fullest news. While it is some
times imposed upon, the Journals treat
ment of affairs relating to the Cuban
complications has been so in accord with
the best American sentiment, and its
news has been shown to be so reliable,
that it has deserved the immense circu-
lation and great influence it has at
tanned.
New men and new money are wei
come to Mexico.--(M Monetary GIobe.l
This looks Exc a throW-down for old |
silver and old women.