The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-12
YELLOW JOURNALISM.

tEhLOh Jul HNALiSM.
Under this caption the indianapolis SEN
tinel yesterday said editorially that "The
Journal has always been notorious for it's
bigotry and malicious misrepresentation in
dealing with Democratic leaders and pol
icies, but it has seldom given a more dis
gushing manifestation of this inability to
tell the plain truth about a political OPP
ponent than in the following notice printed
yesterday morning" Then followed a
press dispatch giving telegram from Mr..
William J. Bryan to a Buffalo paper as
follows:
Free governments may be overthrown,
but they cannot be reformed by those who
violate the commandment: Thou shalt
not kill" Under government like ours
every wrong can be remedied by laws and
the laws are in the hands of the people
themselves Anarchy can be neither eX
cused nor tolerated here. The man who
proposes to right public wrong by taking
the life of a human being makes himself
to the protection of the government which
he repGdiates. He invites a return to a
state of barbarism in which each one must
at his own risk. defend his own rights and
avenge his own wrongs. The punishment
administered to a would-be assassin and to
his cOconspiratorS, If he has any, should
be such as TO warn all inclined to anarchy
that while this is an asylum for those who
love liberty, IL is an inhospitable place for
those who raise their hand against all
forms OF government
The Journals headlines to this dispatch
were "Bryan Has ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in
Marked Contrast with Campaign Speeches"
The Sentinel calls this yellow Journal
ISM" and says: eff the Journals mali
ciously misleading headlines mean any
thing then they mean that Mr.. Bryan has
obnoxious rulers and championed the prin-
ciple of anarchy before the people" The
Journal has never said or insinaated that
Mr.. Bryan has advocated assassination
but it has asserted, and now repeats the
assertion, that the drift of all his argu-
ments in the presidential campaigns of
1896 and 1900 to array class against
class and to excite luminosity against cap
ital by the adroit presentation of distorted
views in such way as to infiame weak
minds TO the point Of criminal acts Mr.
Bryan is not an Anarchist and would not
knowingly advise assassination, but he is
a demagogue who has not hesitated to pro-
logical
conclusion. tend to anarchism. He did this
in both of his campaigns for the presi-
dency, and he did 1t without any protest
or warning against resort to violence He
sowed his seed broadcast without regard
to where it might fall or what kind of
fruit it might bring forth. He scarcely
ever made a speech without an open or
covert appeal to class prejudice His doc
trine was generally sugar-coated but the
kernel was there and invariably it meant
class hatred. In a speech delivered Aug
rs. 1896, he said
And you tell me that IL is lust To have
a system of legislation that takes away
from the parent the possibility Of educat-
ing his children as he would, and that he
is compensated for it by giving money un-
deserved into the hands Of those who by
mach.natiOn corner the money market and
spend the money by buying foreign titles
for their daughters?
He was charging that Mr.. Mckinley was
the candidate of a party that did that
sort Of thing. and that he knowingly ap-
proved it. This was calculated to make
his hearers hate Mckinley and wish him
off the face of the earth. Again. speaking
at Springfield. he said OF American finan-
ciers:
Assuming TO be statesmen they disregard
every law of trade. every law of economies
every law of nature and every law of God
There is not law. human or divine. they
respect because they think they are bigger
than the government and greater than the
Almighty.
If ruler. or government official violates
every law. human or divine, what punish
fc
did not say they ought to be put out of
the way but he left his hearers to draw
their own differences. In a speech at Hor-
nellsville. n. Y, speaking of Republican
leaders. he said
Those men who have now become the
great apostles. preaching I'm the interest of
the laboring men. my friends. these men
who stand at the head OF the gold crusade
are the men who have prevented the arbi-
tration of difficulties between laborers and
their employers. These are the men who
BY the formation of great trusts, have
stifled competition completely and driven
the small competitors out of business. and
then proved upon society with no one to
restrain them OF make them afraid
lie was addressing a mixed audience and
left his bearers to draw their own con-
illusions as TO what should be done to per-
sons who "preyed upon society" At a
farmers picnic he said; My friends, the
issue to-day is an issue between the Idle
holders OF idle money and the struggling
masses who produce the wealth and pay the
taxes OF the country" At Syracuse. y. Y,
he told his hearers that "all the houors
that are in the hands Of the people are be-
fore you if you can have it understood that
the people and not the corporations and
syndicates have a right 10 choose their Off
Gals" These and many similar utterances
had a distinct tendency to array class
against class without reference 10 conse-
quences. This was so apparent that Har-