The San Francisco call., 1898-04-10
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By HENRY JAMES.

s 8 8 8 s 8 s 8 8 a g 8 8 8 8 8 8 of groveling humility. It is certainly far more noble, more in consenance with decency and in accord with the courage without which a person or nation Is thing to be despised.
 PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 2s, 1898.
 To W. R. Hearst. New York Journal. New York. l decline to allow my sorrow for those who died on the Maine to be perverted to an advertising scheme for the New York Journal.
 GROVER CLEVELAND.
 In these few words was Editor Hearst informed that the unspeakable effront- cry of making capital out of brave men dead and eminent men living would be denied the connivance of an ex-Presi dent. l honor the citizen who sent the reply. He might have passed unnoticed the insulting message which had asked him to become party to fraud, or to have saved himself from the certainty or future abuse, permitted the use of his name on the committee" But he took the trouble to answer. The an- swer was deserved, complete, fitting; it
 
 scheme for erecting monument to his own glory. He desires that the memory of the brand of patriotism he keeps in stock be perpetuated in stone, and that the public pay for the stone. To excite a general interest he has an- nounced the prospective shaft as de- signed to be to the sailors of the Maine; also that collectors of contributions are entitled to a rake-off of 10 per cen To this palpable pretense, either through fear or thoughtlessness, some persons Of standing have loaned their names MT. Cleveland had the wisdom to de- cline. being neither foolish nor afraid. This trick of the Journals is one of the lowest 1t has undertaken in all its career Of infamy. If that paper is to be permanency it must be regarded as a type of the greatest evil now threatening this country It is more dangerous than war more deadly than pestilence. Before it's be- smearing assault no reputation is safe. no privacy sacred, no canon in violate. So open in its lies. so brazen in its meddling. and the laudation of its intrinsic foulness; so calm in its as sumption that the people are unclean creatures. delighting in the odor of the sewer or capering joyously on the gar bage heap, it has already created false and damaging impression AS matter of fact, the people deSpise it. They do not believe a word it says. They cannot think any cause it adyo- cates has in it aught of d. They may in instances fear it as a person Of breeding would dread an encounter with a fish wife. It has brought upon journalism in general an unmerited opprobrium. Disgus ed with its Haunt ing lies, its stupid fakes, its prelended interviews. its counterfeit virtue, it's noisome yearning for notoriety, read CTS may sometimes mist Ike il for @ sample of the daily paper. It is a sam pie of nothing but filth; its methods vulgar, its ambitions vile. AS justly might the women of the land be judged by the scarlet outcast unblushing un- der her badge of shame. There is no hope for the Journal while Hearst lives and his money lasts He sinks deeper into the mire to which instinct has led him, and wherein it is his happiness to wallow, spattering any who incau- tiously approach He has no moral sense 10 which appeal ay be made, and would spurn the hand extended to lift him to a decent level. But I can not believe the Journal z to be per manent- For the nonce it attracts at tention. but so does any other malign freak exhibited by a snowman com petent as "spieler" MT. Cleveland did we'll He has secured a new hold upon his friends by adding to the list Of his active enemies this rc-n Hearst. whose presence in journalism is a re- proach to public sentiment and a dis grace to others who. in following calling which has every right to be honorable, must in some measure be regarded as his associates.
 A man named Groezinger has been sitting on the bench of Police Judge Campbell while the latter jurist is away permitting his intellectual pow CTS to recuperate. Ii has been said of Campbell. lightly and irreverently. that he is a peach. If this fieure is permis- sible. then the temporary incumbent is a whole basket Of peaches, with a pitcher of cream and a barrel of sugar handy. To get to the facts, it may be said that 8 number of goddess but dis eliminating people. recognizing the value of The Call. have been taking this paper from the doorsteps Of sub scribers. their unholy act desecrating the early dawn. but providing them with the news Before hearing from Groezinger I would have called the act stealing and the actor a thief This eminent authority, however, decides that a newspaper on a subscribers doorstep is not property. It has passed from the possession of the publisher and not into the possession of anybody else. Therefore by the terms of the Groezinger lack of reason anybody spy ing 1t has a right to pick it up, walk away with it and leave the man who