The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-27
The Colleague of Jim Ham.
New York Sur


what there - IL the air o. The sts.a az
ashInston which keeps 4: home the men
Of sense and sends the fools 10 congress -
4 subject fos philosopb.c speculation not
without is destinations: bat for the pres
ert we resist them.
Washington Is represented In he hauSe
oy two congre ssTnen-at-large. Ons Is the
nov w3rld-ceisbrateI lieutenant co.onel Of
militia who despiSes the officers OF our
regular army as gilded military satraps
and tasseled society sapheads. rhe other
Is the Hon. William Carey Jones Of Spo-
kane. Dir. Jones has Jus. delivered a speech
ostsns!biy upon the election Of senators By
the people. but mostly devoted 10 the de-
Telopment OK Jones idea OF journalism
Jones asserts substantially that he United
States senate Is chock full % venaIty and
corruption. and he explains tha, All equal
~ yenal and corrupt newspaper press Is
mainly responsible for the circumstance
Some Of his gems q thought are here
with appended:
state legislature It does IN the fact tha.
the American people are now m.srepTe-
sented gr.eyously and grossly, by newspa-
pers controlled By men who have hidden,
Interior and selfish purposes
:. These newspapers that ought 10 be the
IEeTNs OF heaven seem TO nave been
chosen 10 serve the devil"
The great misfortune IL .ha. the da.y
organs are az all called newspapers. The
HpEI was proper enough az one 'tnr. GEs
now II is a misnomer and a parody on
truth. The so-eslied newspaper is not a
Newspaper. but Is n every sense OF the
word an organ.
The diabolical ingenuity with which the
newspapers OF America first obtain the
confidence OF their readers before proceed
ing to delude and becray them IS thus ex-
posed by Jones:
mo, everything In the. newspapers IS
false. but the purpose OF the subsidized
people from day TO day with narratives OF
commonplace facts. such as baseball
scores. dog fights. cock fights, boat races.
advertisements. and The Ike. that may tie
true enough
Having thus gained the confidence OF
jones and Others by means OF baseball
scores and reports CT cock fights. the venal
and mercenary lures It's victims on by de-
grees TO the consideration OF questions OF
government and economic policy" Jones
continues.
The press, particularly the metropolitan
press has come 10 BE- the mere representa-
tive Of gigantic selfish interests winch have
now adapted the newspaper IS AL adjunct
10 ths;r business
'ae paper without any reference 20 the hon
est sentiments OF those whose literary &C.
mus IS 20 give that policy editorial cur
I, has indeed sven come 10 the pass
that the ts.AgTa phic news rs revised and
fsSs SlpSG Of TIE JUSTICES EUI o. Tie GStssA-
tuition. Information which does not coin-
eide with thA selfish interest OF the pro
prietor "a either cut out entirely or gross
y CARRIED"
great financial managers now own con-
trolling interests n most OF The metFUpol-
tan da&les, and dictate the contents not
Only OF the editorial oGt Of the re~s col
umns. and writers employed BY ;nem have
become mere literary prostitutes. whose
iury Is 20 pat forth not their honest cor
v'c.iouS bat such sentiments as fae pro-
prfetors deem most conducive 10 their
seinsb purposes
We are not surprised 70 learn from the
rorsazue OF The Hon. Jim Ham Lewis
that after PIONEERING deeply TIE condition
Of American journalism. ne has prepared
ard introduced a bill winch. as he ex-
plains. IL enacted into law would require
such journals 20 publish periodically fun
statement. showing the Ownership CT the
paper ami requiring editorials 10 De signed
by the writer"
NJ. Jones complains bitterly that his
bill for signed editorial articles has been
psgso-hclei by the committee on posi-
offices and posiroads, an untrsendiy ard
a0consensal BODY 10 which that interesting
measure WAS referred. we fear with H9nor-
Gus latent. u the :nstisatioE 90 Speaker
Reed 4 far Il VIII remain there" adds
Jones. 'uE... The people esec, congress
In whica wall street. ass lass Influence
than al present
We hqpe not We sS5u.3 * giai 70
have the jones BIZ released tr2m limbo in
or5ey TO ee discussed II the house. The
whole country woUsd D. cverjoye9 70 read
Mr. Jonee's ersa; spse cA iG defense % his
hill. ara particularly delighted when he
Hon. Jim Ham Lewis arose. 81 support OF
his colleagues measure 20 express rs
ptax-wsasssrri views % American Jour
sal!sa ard American Journalists.