The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-09-13
MOST PLACES BLAME.

MOST PLACES BLAME.
1t must be a decidedly uncomforta-
BILE feeling which the remarks of
Herr Most has caused to the editors
Of the yellow journals that have been
reviling and abusing the president
and administration ever since they
entered upon their official careers at
Washington. Most says that the New
York Journal and it's affiliated and
kindred sheets + as much to blame
for the assault upon the president as
anybody else, except the assassin him
self. In support of this the former
high priest and leader of the Ameri-
can anarchists cites the vicious car
toons which have daily held UP the
president to contempt and ridicule
and have sought to convey the i'm
preston that he is the s~ympathizer Of
those who would Cypress the poor
and weak and the friend Of the ar
tistocracy. But the president has
not been alone in being selected as a
target for this form of vilification and
Misrepresentation. Most calls atten-
ton to the fact that the vice presi-
dent has been made to share in the
mud slung at the administration, al
though always treated by those pub
locations al a mere ~figurehead, with
out authority or influence. The old
anarchist says that such representa-
lions are calculated to influence the
minds of men like Czolgosz and i'm
pei them to the commission of crimes
against those in authority.
While there may be some that do
not believe as Most processes to be-
lieve, it cannot be gainsaid that the
New York Journal, Chicago American
and the other of Hearst's publications
have been guilty of the most shameful
violation of the liberty of the press
and by their continued publication Of
cartoons of the most insulting and
indecent order have sought to bring
ridicule upon the president and his
advisors. For nc other purpose have
they been published than to strength
en- the democratic party. But the
Hearst scavanger boxes have not been
alone guilty of this offense. Other
p~artizan publications have assisted
them in seeking to breed contempt
for the president and fill the minds
of the unthinking with hatred of him.
While those others may not have
gone to the extremes which mark the
Hearst publications, they have been
not less willing that a feeling of dis
trust, hatred and contempt for the
president shall find place in the minds
of all whom they thought themselves
capable of influencing and to that ex-
tent are to be classed with the pub
locations which Most claims have
spurred on CZogosZ. All of those al
lies of the California upstart and
character murderer are not published
outside of Montana.
The war which has suddenly been
declared against the anarchists
should not be so closely defined in
it's purposes as to overlook the news
papers which by their disreputable
conduct and ~senseless, venomous and
maliciously false attacks on the adj
ministration are constantly appealing
to those of weak intellects and per-
verted minds to commit crimes Of
the kind which has caused the storm
to arise that is now sweeping over
the land. They should be given place
in the same boycott that it is intend
ed shall be declared against the anar-
chist and be stamped out with him.
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