The Sunday globe., 1901-05-19
SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1901.
Some Criticisms.

DOlhC SiNi~hohNSs
Criticisms have reached US by direct
and indirect routes of The Sunday
Globes two issues and its policy as out
lined in the articles published. While
ninety per cent. OF the criticisms are
not only favorable, but flattering, there
are, quite naturally, few growlers who
put up a good case-from their point Of
view
Some Of these are hypercritical in
their remarks and some are reasonably
Just The objections to an article in our
first issue, which appeared ON the first
page, are well taken, and the ofiense
will not be repeated. 1t occurred in the
makeup Of the paper through mis-
understanding with the foreman. 1t
should have been placed under the head
Lights and Shades of Washington, y
where it would harmonic with the
head and the other articles in the same
column. To illustrate this, let us sup
pose the Washington daily newspapers
were to insert among reading matter on
the first page the advertisements they
carry on other pages Of the papers-of
massage parlors, medical remedies for
certain diseases, etc. the reader would
be shocked and justly offended at the
obscenity. In their proper place these
announcements attract no adverse COM
ment, and neither would the short art
icle on the first page of The Sunday
Globe, i'm its initial issue, were it placed
under its designated head.
The criticisms which we declare IL
logical and hypercritical are those
touching the mechanical appearance of
the paperand its irreverence in referring
to the President Of the United States in
a too familiar or unfiiendly manner.
These patriotic citizens tell US that
they admire The Globe and like its
other features, but they resent the
handling Of the President in "our free
for-all style.n In fact we have been
guilty. it seems, Of les majesty withou
meaning to be guilty of such henious
crime.
To a writer and a man who has
shaken the hand of every President Of
the United States from the great Lin
coin to the lesser Mckinley, it is some
times admissible to forget that the times
have changed aud that we are now ex-
perimenting with the preliminary for
malities, which i'm the near future, will
be rigidly enforced as the practice of
the American court and its Imperial
istic-Republican head.
We shall, however, until the bayo-
nets of the Imperial Guard are pre-
sented at our breast, continue eyercis-
ing our right as the American peer OF
Mr. Mckinley and au equal citizen Of
this Republic in criticising his policy
and acts while he remains "A servant of
the people, or until he becomes like
Edward Rex endowed with that "di-
vine right which doth hedge a King. "
At present he is the most exalted
public servant in the Republic, and as
such we believe that we are within our
rights and are not violating the canons
Of good taste in respectfully writing the
truth Of and concerning him, as a man
and a politician.
The other criticisms we have heard
and received Of an adverse character,
are Of minor consequence and permit
Of treatment, ss The Globe grows older
and more familiar with its field Of
operations.
The good words and concentrations
are many and numerous, for which we
return our grateful appreciation and
feel encouraged 10y their tenor and
spirit to persevere along the lines laid
down in our salutatory.
The Sunday Globe, like the vintage
Of the gods, will improve with age, and
we design to make it equsllyas refresh
ing to the intellect of the manly and
honest as the wine is cheering and in
vigorating to the heart Of the weary
and the oppressed.