Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-11-09


r from Smalley
New York Is as unsafe as a mining
own a generation ago. One of the re-
suits of the political importation of
ramps and criminals has been TO turn
loose In the city many of the most dan
gerous men in America. Part of the
price paid Is a promise of immunity
from punishment
"'An incredible wave of crime is
over the city. Shopkeepers
are I'm n state bordering on panic. Citi-
zens walk the streets at night literally
ut the risk of their lives. The more
prosperous shopkecpers are employing
private watchmcn. SO great Is the dis
trust of the police
This story. preposterous as II Is.
might find some believers abroad. to the
injury Of New York, II Smalleys au-
thorship of 1t did not deprive 1t of it's
sting. The English people know Small
ley pretty wcll-he lived there for
good many years. reverently telling a
New York paper what people of rank
thought about current events. They
will not be likely to take him seriously.
1T was an evil hour for Smalley when
he exchanged his congenial livery in
London for a situation In New York.
The atmosphere Of America Is not con.
genial to the hunky soul. Nothing here
has suited the exile.
The situation might have been toll.
cradle IL Smalley had been able to
break into society. but as II is. his only
consolation Is to invent wonderful fic-
lions about us. which his employers
swallow whole.
"a yellow journalist with smalley's
gift of mentlacity would last just about
from one pay day to the next. hut
Smalley il not yellow journalist--he
Is merely YellOwplush."
While most people I'm this country
will agree with what Is said in repudia.
ton and denuncintiOn Of Smalley. how
many Of those whose minds he has
poisoned will read this Reputation and
denunclatiOn?
Very few, II any, and It IL therefore
seriously to be doubted. whether the
personality Of Smalley, unknown to his
readers on the other side Of the Allan.
tic, will destroy the effect Of his lies
and Misrepresentation.
Besides. Mr.. Smalley In not the only
offender In this direction, nor the
Times the only channel Of vlllifcatiOn
Of New York. There are others Just
rs bad, ana what In worse. they Gun
all quote the New York newspapers
themselves In support Of what they
have caused to be published by the ven.
OmOusly Jealous ana vlndictivcly an.
tagonistic press of England.
How strongly does the lesson under
which New York IL now smartlng come
home to the people Of Chicago!
Those Of them whose memories go
back to the campaigns Of the past
twenty or five and twenty years can
recall the mud.slinging ana downright
lies and llbels by which they have been
accompanied.
The last two city elections here. In
both Of which Hon. Carter II. Harrison
won notable victories. despite the Zero
cious attacks Of the Republican party
lenders and party organs. was one long
drawn out campaign Of the most I'M
scrupul0us mcndacity.
The fair fame Of this city was attack.
ed by the campaign orators and the Re.
publican partisan press as II never had
been before. This city was represented
as den Of thieves. ana the very home
Of infamy. II the Republican OppOsl.
ton had been composed Of the bittcrest
enemies Of Chicago II could not have
strlven more strcnuOusly to ruin the
clty's reputation ana destroy its credit
II was represented to be a place
where life and property were unsafe
where murder and arson went hand IN
hand and where police and other OH
Gals were In league with lnw.brcakcrs
and shared In the spells of the criminal
classes.
No man can tell accurately or ever
approximately how much these lies
spread broadcast rs they have been by
tho press, the public rOstrum ana ever
by the pulpit, have injured this city
from the material as well rs from til,
moral standpoint In the past.
Il 1t IL continuing to injure II. because
there IL II portion I'm justice we mus
say not alD Of the partisan Republican
press which still persists In THROWN,
mud ana heaping calumny upon thu
fair name OF Chicago In order to brln,