The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-09-14
THE YAKIMA HERALD.
BAILEY, TUEsLEY & McCoMB.
Publishers.
THURSDAY. SEPT. ~, 1899.
An Open Letter to the Editor Of Review Of
Reviews.


of war in the September issue. You use
the section devoted to the Progress OF
the World" as the vehicle of your senti-
ments. This, it may be assumed, is an
improper use of a section supposed to be
wholly impartial. A few similar &C.
currences may cut into your circulation,
thus demonstrating the Stiffness OF GER
tain editorial utterances.
But, besides proceeding wrongly from
the premises, you do not stick to your
text. You drag in matter wholly irrel-
evant. The subsequent article by Mr..
Henry Macfarland is infinitely the better
one, because it is pertinent and Straight
out" while your editorial comment i'm
presses one that you are writing under
disguised title. This is the more untor-
tunate since your editorial MANAGEMENT
of the Review of Reviews, as we'll as
your work at Minneapolis (where We
were neighbors) and elsewhere, has
gained recognition of eminent jour.
nalistic capacity; but it is deplorabe
that editorial dignity in the conduct OF a
great journal has fallen so far as to set
aside the avowed purposes of an indie
pendent Review in order to air ones par
tisan. if not prejudicial, politics under
the caption OF "The Progress of the
World"
And who are the parties whom you so
eagerly designate? For three decades a
| few of the names, we admit, have been
familiar to the public; but what are they
doing of substantial good to the people :?
| Is theirs an instance Of preerment pro
bono puJhcO? This may be more read
lily claimed than proven, and the larger
number of Americans do not believe il.
You say that it is bond of strength to
the administration and evidence OF thar
mony" in New York, that certain prom
nent gentlemen have been given prefer.
ment. You locate MIR. Bliss in the cab
met Gen. Porter, minister to France ;
Andrew ID. White, Berlin Mr.. Choate,
England; Whitelaw Reid, special am
bassador at Queens jubilee Col. Roose-
welt, governor President Seth Low, "who
might have had" ETC., etc, and then
only casually add Mr.. Roots name as
secretary of war, merely, it is believed,
to make some little show of sincerity,
having begun with Mr.. Root as your
title.
The reason for all this is not far to
seek and it ls much in evidence that the
white mans burden" you are laboring
or rather totterng, under is to create an
impression that politics in New York are
"healthy," and should be satisfactory to
the greater number of our voters. You
especially emphasize the harmony
you profess to observe among republican
leaders in New York, as if that were a
criterion of the American public. You
enormously Jump to the conclusion that
the conditions which obtain in Gotham
are to be taken down "whole" by the
people. Who are these men whom you
think hold the key to the political situa-
ton? Their prominence, wealth and
sagacity are not called in question: but
does Harmony" ia the nation depend
upon the Union League club of New
York, or the 'money-bags" of Wall
street? God forbid! May the American
eagle never disgrace or stultify himself
by assuming 80 ignoble an attitude
Sir, the American public are not so gull
lible as you intimate or allege. The CEN
tering of political power in New York, il
it be true, or your intimation thereof,
is only to bolster up waning cause. In
deed some thinkers are at once philosoph'
ical and daring enough to plainly assert
that this whole matter of prominent re-
publicans being given places of power is
simply Jackpot" political scheme, in
which the parties are the players. with
the e. O. o. as boss of the machine
standing at hand to haul in the stakes.
We repeat our inquiry. then. Who
are these men are they devotees at the
altar of freedom, or merely rearing q
temple OF mono-metalism which shall be
gold-bug from foundation stone to pin
nacle? Is not their avowed purpose the
perpetuity of trusts, with the hope Of
again cabling the voter into willing
obedience at the next campaign? Are
not these men gold-bugs of the first
water, ready by all the arts of legisla
ton and diplomacy to enrich the few al
the expense OF the greater number
Trusts prove our proposition and we