The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-13

captain u. B. Athcrton, secretary
Of the board of trado: IL think that
any newspaper which will print n car
toon or publish Il line that holds the
president of the United States up to
ridicuc should he Immediately sup
| pressed. The presidents actions may
be criticised, but he may not he ridi-
culed. The series of cartoons which
have been run by some of the metro
! politan papers were enough to make
any mans blood boil. Think of that
| line of cartoons, entitled the 'McKin-
| Icy Minstrels,' and the more recent set
of atrocities called Willie and His
! Papa, which have been brought into
| hundreds of households in this Coun-
! try and reflect upon the effects which
they are bound to have upon the ig
| norant or young.
Moreover. the tactics adopted by
| papers of that stamp, most assuredly
in my opinion. have tendency to en-
coul age riot and anarchy. one of the
| Philadelphia papers severely scored
| the mayor there because he wouldn't
let Emma Goldman give a speech
there. Why, | think almost any mu-
nicipa officer would be against it. /
| know if ! was mayor of Scranton and
| the Goldman WOTan wanted to de-
| liver an address. that wouldn't allow
it while the police force was big
enough to suppress her. And for the
matter of that" added Captain Ather-
ten, apropos of the attack made upon
President Mckinley by Mrs. Nation,
| II wouldn't let Mrs. Nation make any
address around here either. She's
showing her principles to be just as
bad as Emma Goldman's."
President Charles T.. Chittcnden. of
the select council: There is nothing
to be done with yellow journalism. 1t
has always been with us and always
will be in some form. 1t is the appeal
of vicious ignorance to stupid ignor-
ance and its evils can be minimizcd
only by the progressive education of
all classes of our people. When print
ed rot and falsehood fail to sell their
sheets the proprietors of the yellow
journals will go out of business. 1t
was this class of journals that for eight
years charged Washington with con-
spring to be a king; that called Lin
coin a baboon and a teller of smutty
stories; that chalked the sidewalks
with Garfield's name proclaming that
he had stolen S329, and it is this class
of journals which is today picturing
Mckinley and Roosevelt as the pup
pets of the trusts and of Mark Hanna
These journals are one of the inherent
| evils of democracy and it is far better
to endure them silently than to de-
strOy them by parting with an iota OF
our right to fair and unfair criticism
of our public measures or of our public
men"
Magistrate w. S. Millar: Il want
to say that | consider the yellow jour
nails of this country class of news
papers of which the New York journal
Is a type, to he educators not only OF
disrespeCt for our institutions, but tC
be also educators of crime, They
should be no longer tolerated by the
citizens of this country, and the large
advertisers should stop encouraging
them by refusing to advertise in them
Every citizen who has a spark of pat
riotism about him should do all il
his power to prevent their sale, frs
by refusing to buy them himself, anc
secondly by cndcaVoring to persuad,
his ncEhhors from doing SO. Thes,
yellow journals encourage disrespec