The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-10-10
WANTED, A DEFINITION.

Ita feo,encv with which the term yellow Journalism
has appeaed in columns of certain disrepuaps
gamers Of late has called forth many inquiries as 70
,;,g Of the term To this we have been able 10 give nv
a,sf,ctorv answer for the reason that it is teri" %
80, 49, meaning from the particular mouth that speaks IT,
and therefore as many mouths there are 'as
mos II means in general kind OF Journalism 'a ~
approved Of by the person complaining, a,iu .s -
sarv 70 frame new definitions TO suit the varying stau
- 90 nroner journalism up by many wouldoe autnoi
,ies On this question The best we can do is 10 give
;,ttions certain Rev. J. Mnot Savage preached ser
mon recently in which he ascbed the ASSASSINATION oil inc
president to the writings of several persons whom he named
o. f these was the venerable and scholarly president Oh
Harvard college Another was MIR Edward A'Kinso' an
eminent authority economic and statisucal queStoi WI"
has written standard works on these SUBJECTS: w.,
Nj Iuan Hawthorne who achieved distinction in liter
,rc These men had told the plain truth in PLAN words
about the growth Of monopoly and the nsoience OIL asse
gated wealth and about war OF criminal
Mr. Mckinley called tin the philippines ACCORDING "
Rev Minot Savage these eminent men were yellow Jour
nalists. ,,, ,,
Other men having different standard OF public decenoy
are divided in opinion whether Rev j. Mnot savage
should be described yellow pupteer or as pale gray
ass considerable number holding the opinion that he
both
The city of Philadelphia and the whole State of Pennsyl
vania have been dominated by corrupt political ring Of
which Matt Quay the head The reckless insolent and de-
daut rascay OF this ring, the hamelessness with which
has ked in the rights the people for the personal gain
90 the rebers,of the ring has reused the indignation of
ht men without REGARD to party The Philadelphia In
;r i bc organ Of the ring journalistic slave of gang
IS lal thieves 1t calls the Philadelphia North Amer
c ticb dcnources the ring yellow journal" and all
who oppose its domination as anarchists
Ad ,bera is tbe New York Sun Its whole career has
hen o If c,,un,rv enumeration and ribad abuse on the
one hand and Of sIaysb aduaton of the lords OF monopoly
and c If n,1ic corruption upon the other Its hatred
and aIiov does not even respect the tomb 1t denounced
Garfield s nerirer and bribtaker before the cods had
dd on his grave The Sun is owned by the powers evil
| Odd lie ,,oicy &c dictated Inv the father Of lies.
Tho New York Journal is an ouspoken fearless news
~ idcncndent Of trust influence and waging unceasing
var or roononoly The Sun saws that the Journal is vel
low some other peope saw that the Sun is yellow and still
others saw that if is black
We obt come nearer home for further illustration
Certain nevspaners in This State of democratic profess
; so,,ed uitb zeal tbe administrations polcy in the
Pbi,oies and in doing so adopted an ntoerant proscrp-
five and yirdictiye attitude toward all democrats who op-
noed il Tbey never attempted to answer single argu-
+ The, never advanced one of their own They simply
l e, .,rre,4s Of rir,,dr, and enumeration Yet Mr.
Nt, himself had described this policy as criminal ag-
erosion Mr. Roosevelt in one Of his published works has
~ that colonial no1icv was Inconsistent with the genius
f orr American institutions that it was Roman imperialism
| 80 ;;,,;.tI fr s,,oric,, ex,,rsio, Two Of Mr. Nc