The San Francisco call., 1901-10-08
PROMOTING DISORDER.

TIME case OF the people against lawless and dis
orderly Journalism has been tried and decided
L in favor of law and order. But the plaintiff in
the case should watch with care revivescence OF
what present dead evil.
- By common consent the Hearst papers have been
selected as the worst and foremost examples OF
policy designed to undermine respect for law, con-
fuse the ideas of right and and to present vice
and crime in the garb of virtue and honor.
The sustained and insidous steps by which those
papers steadily forward from heroizing vulgar
criminals to incitement OF the murder OF the Pres-
dent is interesting study of the cultivation OF the
abnormal by suggestion. Train robbers and MUIR
dercrs in this State giorified and praised their
criminal courage and cunning held up to admiration,
until all weak and willful minds were convinced that
they of merit worthy to be initiated and
deserving Of the praise bestowed upon them AT the
same time the sworn officers of the law who in the
midst of peril and difficulty trying bring them
to justice, were stigmatized as man hunters,
every effort was made to thwart them by giving pub
iicty their plans end their failures to catch the
cunning felons were goated over The Examiner
put crime on the stage in drama that celebrated
stealing ard murder virtues, and it did all this
by holding up what it calls the rich" deserving to
be despoIed and as the proper victims Of the thief
and assassin.
When Garrett and Williams trying to rid
Arizona Of the worst gang Of thieves and murdererS
that have infested district since the days of Murrel
and the Mississippi pirates, the Examiner settled
writer in that Territory TO assist the scoundrelS and
abuse the officers Perhaps more outrageously
criminal journalism known than its exhibit
ton OF sympathy for robbers and murderers openly
declared III that affair. Every law officer in Arizona,
Federal and Territorial, who did his duty pur-
crad 1,it11 Ind and
every escape of criminal hailed triumph OF
virtue. When felons convicted they were
encouraged to cherish vengeance against the day OF
their liberation when they to seek violent
venge upon the officers of the law concerned in their
capture.
All this work in Journalism was done in that
strabismc style of bathos peculiar to the Examiner
school Of writing, and displayed sensationally
Carrying the habit into politics. it natural
that the President, his Cabinet and all charged with
the execution of the law should in their turn get the
same treatment as the local officers who in this State
and Arizona had tried to make life and property safe
from the Examiner felon friends.
During the recent disorders in this city the police
were the victims OF the same policy. The only way
for an officer to get the Examiners praise was by
perjured neglect OF Ilis duty.
Now it need not be wondered at that this sort Of
journalism, persistenty INDUCED in San Francisco,
Chicago and New York, has come to be considered
by the people standing menace to public order,
and are alarmed when these papers declare that
the destruction of order and of law is their purpose
Announcing that "the rich in favor of law and
order "the poor educated in the belief that law
and order, therefore, oppressive of them, and
must be destroyed.
! All men who stop 10 think know the falsity as well
as the danger OF such education for they know that
the so-called poor the greatest and first bene-
fciaries of the law and of its scrupuous execution
that this sinister teaching is for the undong of the
very class to which it is addressed.
Being at last awake to the crimes and offenses Of
such journalism the people should beware of its
ming and persistence and watch for its urtive and
covert renewal and administer prompt punishment
when it appears.