The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-09

should teach Paterson that prompt
measures are necessary in order to
avert evil This is good time 10
act.
Cause and Effect.
T~HE FOLLOWING lrtter, writ
ten un saturday hy an in
dignant citizen uf scranton
To the publisher of perhaps
the most conspicuous yellow newspaper
in the country, voices feeling of re-
sentiment and of warning that Just now
is widespread:
Editor \cv York journal. \cw Nork. y. \.
Dcm Str. purchased the Jouruil this morn
ing. the issue OF sept. 'h, aud va, Nrli mn.
surprised at its contents. iur | could not h'Ip
feeling. a, | read it, that there va, IN your
paper an oppressed sorrow. at least, because o'
the calamity that has hciscn the nation in tho
attempted assassination ot uur beloved plr-l
dent was surprised ii, the cartoon Love and
sympathy" ON the last page hl DdNcnpotI
had expected lou to ho true to your past rccold
ut holding up 10 ridiculc our Cnlct magistrate,
and had expected to lrd cartoon with w."
trusts. "Willic's Papa and "itanu1' looking
for surgeon for willie
Il Is hardl, consistent tor you at the present
time To pct on sack .clp.h and ashes. Nour p'"''.
as it hi, been conducted. assisted lay artist. such
as Davenport and oppcr, with their coarse a"d
vulgar concept ions, makes the tragedy ui lC-l'r
day possible, even III this republic " ouls How
artists in hi. land, and in this age, can produce
such low, di,rcputahlc cartoon, and lot 'Hc p'ir'
posts intended, b, mystery. and how YOU "a
the editor and owner of a would hc reputable
g. IL Al,
scous to- evidence IN instance Of mori dcprd,uy
of the lowest type on their part, and the pur.
pose on your paIt to mcitc IN" WUds ut those
who arc ,i"ious enough to plan aud execute the
dcod that bows the head of lhc good citizens ~
ths nation in sorrow to-day. II may not be treas.
oT and Anarchy hut II Is likely io We the 'tu'r
Of both. II should hc possible Tor journal to
he comhariyc, without throwing filth, to awaken
public opinion, without appealing to that whici,
is hd,c,t IN human nature. the cartoons that
you print way appear very funny. and may appeal
to 4 certain cla,, of Itcopl,. hut to hold M 'o
ridiculc IN the most coarse WAY our president. Is
your paper has done in the past, i, bound tn re-.
suit IN odldmt,c, like lna' oi yesterday. Nr. Dt,.
export, Nr Opror and yourself have danced and
made merry. hut u seems rather inconsistent ror
yoT a, This time TO assume crepe. In all TIN. i
food for reflection tor Nou for all the people, and
for Yours.
AARON v Bower
scranton, Sart. e.
1t is possible that We may never
know in detail. it is possible that the
crazy assailant OF the president does
not himself know. just what fed the
smouldoring fires of dcmcntia in his
brain until they blazed NJ in the awful
crime that has thrown heart -Clutch
around civilization But it is very PLAN
that thr coarse brutality and vulgar
RIGHTEOUSNESS of yellow journalism
have not exercised any ropresSivc in
tluencc or helped to lift the preSiden-
tial office so high in the esteem of all
our people that none would be melted
to do bodily injury To its occupant.
Just think, for moment. how yellow
Journalism operates. When it differs
from man in public life ii immedi-
ately proceeds to describe and portray
him as a scoundrcl. There is no allow
anrc for possible honest differences of
opinion. The editor of the yellow" is
always right and those who disagree
with him are always wrong. and in
stead of arguing the matter he orders
his reporters To libel and dcfamc those
whom he wishes to attack. and hires
artists To devise the most contemplate
pictures holding these opponents up to
public ignominy and rdiculc. This is
done not only i'm the heat of furious
campaigns hut IT is followed out a. a
regular business. Even where thcr" is
no political object To he gained G." .'ul-
ice To vent men of eminCnc" an. ,u'-
tooncd and lampooned ana accused of
vicious motives and of lack of honesty
simply because there are men ana
women on earth who delight in de-
traction and will buy papers that make
| it stock in trade.
yellow journalism is doing moro to
corrupt and unsettlc the minds of the
| American peopl" than any other tool
| the devil is using. 70 the intellectual
| life of this nation it is precisely what
| prostitution is to the physical life--a
| frightful source of menace and infcc-
| tion; undermining health and charac-
| ter; pulling down To lower depths those
| already weak Of mind and will; de-
| strOyinC reverence for what is pure
| and good, and feeding a passion that
grows ON what it feeds until the time
comes when uvcrWrought nerves are
| beyond control and the result is nsan-
| ity and crime.
| There is no escaping from these con-
| Clusions. Papers like the yellow pests
of New York, Philadelphia and Srran.
ton, that without apparent scruplc on
| compunction have deliberately traf.
| iicked upon class prejudice and socia
| discomfort as the woman of the street
trailics upon lust, have share of rc.
| sponsbiity for the dastardly crime nj
| Buffalo which will not he cnViabl,
| when the common sense of the pCopl,
fully aWakens to the situation and pro-
ceeds, as it will do, To reckon the ac,
| count
| Probably a good many Democrat
still believe in the i6 to | ratio hu
they are not making much noise il