The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1901-09-18
The Yellow Press and Anarchists.

Looking back over the history Of the
past seven or eight years, the fact stands
ont prominently that the yellow newspa-
pers have been tanning the spirit of an
archy, Their business is TO sell news
papers by methods of fsensationaliSm and
playing upon the basest passions of man
kind. They receive rs news simple
fact and proceed to surround it with a
mass Of glaring fiction and startling sur
misses. They represent the idea that gov
ernment and the social system are dis
eased to the core, and that the yellow
mission is to keep up and add to the fer
mentation until some other form of social
adjustment is brought about On June
| last the Now York Journal, published
by man Of large wealth, who has daily
newspapers also in Chicago and San
Francisco, printed an editorial arguing
that assassination had not only changed
the history of the world, but altered it
for the better. did not the murder of
Lincoln said the journal, "uniting in
sympathy and regret all good people in
the North and the South, hasten the era
OF American good feeling, and perhaps
prevent the renewal of fighting between
brothersS" Ifthat idea is not due to a
demented brain it is the logic of the an
archist, who holds that stealthy murder
is the weapon with which to improve So
a. k, al
framework.
Another instance is called to mind in
Philadelphia, where another yellow pa
per was the champion of Emma Gold
man when the murGerous she-wolf had
arranged to deliver harangue in that
city. The police authorities interiered.
The North American said: "The ex.
ample of lawlessness being gwen by the
police authorities is at once dangerous
and disgraceful. Should force be met by
force, the moral responsibility would
rest upon the stupid despots of the city
hall. The law should be brought to bear
upon the lawless mayor and director OF
public safety" The yellow newspaper
made the right of Emma Goldman to
stand up before a crowd and inciie to as
sassination greater than the right Of the
authorities, constituted by the people, to
preserve the public peace, order and hui
man life. On the same occasion Emma
Goldman complained that the constitu-
ton of the United States had been violat-
ed because she could not lash some
Czolgosz in the crowd into shooting the
President as he stood extending his hand
to his fellow citizens. Such is the inter-
probation of the national constitution by
the tiend who is worse than Borgia, and
the yellow papers that flock to her
support.
The Goldmans, Mosts, Clolgoszes and
the yellow papers have been playing into
each others hands. All alike deuounce
Presidents as despots, imperialists, the
tools millionaices, the bloodsuckers of
honest toll. Emma Goldman made a
previous speech in Philadelphia, in which
she said; "My creed is that of force. l
propose that monster parade of the
downtrodden workingmen pass the
houses of the capitalists who rob them,
and should this not have the desired ef-
feet, resort to force" She advised men
who had nothing "to take the bread de-
MED them by capital from the bakeshops
and meat from the butchers. | believe
that anarchy will win in the end. We
want revolution in this country before
it can prosper" When this demon ap-
peared again in Philadelphia the author
ities stopped her meeting, and for this
act the yellow paper denounced the may
or as lawless, stupid despot, and said he
was provoking force as reply to force.
Tie yellow press in the United States is
the main prop of the Goldmans and the
Czolgoszes.