Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1901-09-25

at everything good and pure and inno-
cent, and has held up to execration men
in public office whose lives are pure
and whose official acts are clean and
wholesome. 1t has attacked wealth
with fiendish bitterness, in order TO
taught assassination, ever II il has not
openly proclaimed that it would be best
TO remove all constituted authority. 1t
has been audacious, demagogic and con-
temptible. 1t has proclaimed that
President Mckinley has sold the re-
public to the trusts and that he did
their bidding; that he was a foe TO the
common people, and that justice could
not be secured in the courts of the land.
1t has proclaimed Vice President Roose-
welt n murderer, IL has pictured him
as an assassin among men engaged in
legitimate warfare. II has advocated
tarring and feathering the supreme
court and riding the members on rails
through the streets of Washington.
This and much more has yellow jour
nalism done in the United States. The
papers Of this class have played upon
the passions of men. They have in
famed the minds of the weak. They
have caused class hatred. They have
told brazen and mendacious lies about
good men who serve the people in a
public capacity. No measure could be
proposed in congress by any Republi-
can member without bringing down a
storm Of vitriolic abuse upon the head
of the offender, who in the eyes of the
yellow journal was guilty Of a heinous
crime.
Having planted the red flag Of an
arehy upon n hill, having called to arms
with everything that could make II
noise, having routed from the sluIns,
cutters and purlicuo all the mean, low.
vicious. criminally murderous, and loot
seeking bands of cnt-throats. the yell
low press now enters Il disclaimer and
says il didn't do il. The three sensa-
tional newspapers of the United States
which have abused President Mckinley
without stint, which have called Vice
President Roosevelt a murderer, which
have advocated tarring and feathering
the supreme court, which have advo-
Gated force as a political argument,
which have claimed that the cabinet is
composed of a band Of thieves-these
three papers are as full of praise as
they have been of abuse. President
Mckinley is now said TO be ''the no
blcst character in the breadth Of the
land, whose laws he administered,
whose will lac studied and obeycd."
Why this tardy admission of the truth?
Do those papers fear popular venge-
ance? They should. The poor fools at
their heads have imagined that the
people have been with them. The Cen
trail Labor union of New York city di-
rectly charged the New York Journal
and its editorials and cartoons with re-
sponsibilitv for the assault upon Presi-
dent Mckinley. Even Herr Most, who
denies that Czolgosz is an anarchist,
says:
"You wish to make this man one of
us. Why don't you read the New York
Journal? Look at the c~aricatures on
the last pages, where your president is
portrayed in a way that would make
even n bootblack ashamed. Is it a
wonder that this poor Czolgosz permits
himself To be melted to make an at
tempt thai may produce complications
that we canno ever foresee?
Why should this murderer be called
an anarchist? Why should the an
archists be held responsible for him?
In China the schoolmaster is held re-
sponsible for wrong done by n pupil,
because il is held that the pupil must
not have been educated properly: so
the schoolmaster is punished. Instead
of furnishing the drunkard they punish
the man who sells the liquor. Would
not it be well to apply this rule in cases
like this once in n while?"
1t seems from this that the yellow
press is responsible for a different breed
of anarchists from Herr Most and his
gang "A breed with mor vicious mon
grels in it, il such a thing be possible.
The yellow journals must go and
they are going. The tone of the SEN
sational papers will be changed. They
have not only SEE the light, but they
have heard a sound. 1t is ominous,
and a deep fear has come upon them,
They will try to be decent, even if they