The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-10-05
.DLFENSE OF THE YELLOW. 1.-THE LAWYERS DIDN'T WIN.
THE EXAMINERS ANSWER TO ITS
CRITICS.
Claims to Represent the Common Peo-
pie" and Says an Assassination Can
b not Act to Suppress Criticism.

While the newspapers and weeklies
of the United States are joining i'm de-
nunciatings of the Hearst newspapers
as responsible for the DEVELOPMENT of
such characters as Czolgosz by reason
of their intlammatory sentiments. the
San francisco Examiner has an equally
vigorous defense. Those who were in
san Francisco in the days that follow
ed the assassination say that men could
be seen buying Examiners and tearing
them up on the street by way of ex-
pressing their sentiments. On Sunday
september %, the Examiner published
IN defense full page editorial address,
ed TO the American people," in which
the following passages occur:
The murdered President is buried,
and the world, of necessity, turns from
the past to the future, taking UP again
the concerns of life.
There are things that need to be said
ana that can be said NOW with pro-
priety, as to which good taste has
hitherto demanded silence.
From coast to coast of the continent
the Hearst newspapers have been at
tackled, and are being attacked, with as
like ferocity by the incompetents
the failures of journalism, with the kept
organs of plutocracy heading the mob.
WHO hate The Examiner
Those whom it has fought, and those
who have been hurt in the newspaper
business by success which is at once
a rebuke to incapacity and an infuria-
ting provocation to envy and jealousy.
who are they against whom The
Examiner has fought?
Chiefly the predatory rich, the crafty
and the able who pile up monstrous
fortunes by pillaging the people inside
and outside the forms of law
'This is that yellow journalism
about which we are being deafened by
Journalism that has neither soul nor
conscience to give it color.
yellow journalism as "The Exami-
ner represents it, means what the men
who take things and their organs call
an appeal to class prejudice Was
there ever such an appeal to class pre-
judice' as Christ made when he placed
Lazarus on the doorstep of Dives, where
he has been sitting for 1000 years and
asking-what?
"What good institution, what good
cause, has The Examiner injured?
Has it assailed the State?
Has it attacked the church? Has it
antagonized any reform movement, or
hurt at any time any legitimate bust
ness interest?
"As a result of the assassin's hor-
rible crime these consequences are to
follow:
llt pOOT are no longer TO De IOlu
that proverty is not due to Gods de-
cree but to mans social Embellishments
and therefore durable, lest some vic
tim of proverty be turned into an as
sassin.
THE trusts ought to escape all criti-
cism, all curb, lest some among their
crushed competitors or pillaged victims
be provoked to murder.
Frauds shall be let alone, lest law
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ed.
Dishonest bankers shall wreck banks
and be spoken of with urbanity lest
some ruined depositor learning from
the press instead of personal experience
what ruin means, shall be goaded to
tage vengeance.
Because a villain or a madman has
murdered a President of the United
States we are to have no more political
controversy.
Because an anarchist who cares
nothing about American political con-
troVersy has assassinated a President,
we must speak forever hereafter of can
didates and office-holders as though We
were at their funeral, lest some lunatic
be instigated to kill them, in which
event censure of them, written when
they We're alive and well, would sound
cruel by the graveside.
"Is all life hereafter to be lived in
graveyard by Americans and by Anne
rican journalism lest when death comes
to a public man the severe word, the
light word and the funny picture may
be produced in the death chamber by
malice, shedding calculating tears, and
shock by appropriateness there?
Suppose Mr.. Bryan had been elected
and assassinated as was Mr. Mckinley,
how would the editorials and cartoons
of the republican press sound and look?
1.-The social problem is still with us
the problem of how the poverty OF the
poor may be lessened, and the very rich
be restrained from appropriating what
others earn. The war of parties will go
on for men will differ and contend, and
nothing is ever settled until it is settled
right. There are the old wrongs to be
righted and the new wrongs growing up
that must be attacked"
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