The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-10
THE YELLOW JOURNAL AND THE
YELLOW ORATOR.

The Brooklyn Eagle. one of the leading
Independent papers in the country, declares
that the yellow Journalism of anarchy
shares the responsibility for the attack on
the President" True, CzolgOcz claims that
he has long been an Anarchist and that
the Goldman woman gave him his inspira-
ton, yet ii will be found that whenever he
read a newspaper it was one of the no
torious yellow journals which have circu-
lated so widely the past few years. The
Eagle says 1.-The journalism of anarchy
did not mean that the President should be
shot; it only wished to sell more papers,
by cartoon and comment like the following
Mckinley is a tyrant reddening his hands
in the blood of the poor and filling his
pockets and those of others with dollars
coined out of the sweat and tears and hun
ger of helpless strikers, their wan wives
and their starving children.
The foregoing was published in the lead
ing yellow journal in the country the
journal or it's duplicate that is read by
thousands of persons who are attracted
by its hideous cartoons and its sensational
comment in poster type. Observing people
must recall seeing class of ignorant
young men reading such papers on the
streets. Such readers come to believe the
passion-inciting stuff addressed to men who
labor. There can be no doubt that Czol-
gocz has read such papers, made to sell
to just such people. There is no question
that this sort Of stuff has caused the large
sale of such papers. On a par with the
foregoing from the leading yellow newspa-
per is the yellow orator who harangues on
Mckinley, with his merciless and coward
~ heart, raising his blood-stained hands
to heaven in hypocritical prayer" These
are not the words of an Anarchist. but of
a man who assails the policy of the Presi-
dent. Pages of such hate-inspiring ex-
pressions could be clipped from the leading
yellow Journals and from the harangues
of yellow orators.
To-day such journalism and oratory as
above quoted is the most tearfullv svmna-
thetic and demonstrative grief-stricken
Journalism and oratory in the land. The
papers which have denounced William Nc
| Kinley as "a tyrant reddening his hands
in the blood of the poor are proclaiming
with ostentation the lovableness of his
| character. Last week and all the previous
weeks for years the President has been
cartOoned and described as a monster. a
despot and a coward. Scared with the
feeling of its responsibility, the yellow
journal flies to the other extreme and can
onizes the President, who may die.
Patriotic men and women, the vast ma
jority of all political parties and creeds.
are asking to-day what can be done to ex-
terminate anarchism. They have i'm their
minds small bands of wretches who are
at war with society, the ripe fruitage of a
goddess pessimism. 1t is well. but all eff
| forts to suppress anarchism will fail if the
yellow journal and the yellow orator are
permitted to resume their war upon social
order as soon as they think that people
have forgotten their responsibility in the
attempt on the life of the President Our
assassins of Presidents are native born;
they have been educated at home. and
every weak-minded or ignorant person who
reads the yellow journal is taking lessons
in class hatred which makes many lawless
and few assassins. Efforts to extirpate
Anarchists will be useless so long as the
yellow journals, circulated by tens of thou
sands, and the yellow orators are permitted
TO circulate and speak where they will.