Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-09-19
ANARCHY
AND YELLOW
JOURNALISM
Presidents Death May Be Traced
to Sensational Newspapers
REVIEW OF THEIR WORK
CzOlgOsz Inspired By Emma Gold.
man to Fire the Shots

~ DSrCUnCGu r or It's OeTenSe OF tne
Queen cf Anarchy Against the
Philadelphia Authorities and Its At
tack Upon the Police For Attempt
ing to Prevent Her Spreading Her
pamnable Doctrines.
While the entire nation is bowed in
sorrow over the death of the beloved
Mckinley, an outraged people are cry
ing out in vehement denunciation of
! those at whose doors can properly be
placed the responsibility for the das-
tardly attack upon the President.
Czolgosz, the assassin, has con-
1essed that he was prompted to the
terrible deed through the teachings of
Emma Goldman, the Queen OF An
archy"
Emma Goldman, through the me-
dium of yellow journalism has been
enabled to spread her damnable doc
trines, notwithstanding the interfer-
ence of the police authorities, and
since she has been taken into custody
and the secret service agents of the
United States have been at work the
: ramifications OF the Anarchistic move
ment have been disclosed with start
ling results.
CZoLGOSZ'S SHOT.
It was not until Czolgosz's shots
thrilled and shocked the entire Chris
tian world that the people awakened to
the frightful work of yellow journal
ism
Right here, in prosperous, patriotic
Pennsylvania, was given an exhibition
| OF the extent to which yellow journal
would go to further personal or po-
litical ends.
Since the assassination of President
Mckinley the eyes OF the nation have
been directed to the work OF Wana-
makers Philadelphia North American
in championing the cause OF Emma
Goldman. when the authorities of the
Quaker City attempted to prevent her
from addressing meetings in the city.
While the Hearst yellow newspapers
in New York, Chicago and San Fran
cisco were bounding the President
with editorials, cartoons and carica-
lures, all melting hostility to his adj
ministration and intlaming the minds
| OF the unemployed against the govern"
ment, the work of The North Ameri-
can, in the light OF recent events, was
quite as sCandalOus and outrageous.
GOLDMAN AND HER TEACHING s.
1t was in April last when Emma
Goldman arrived in Philadelphia to
carry out her purpose to make public
addresses. The police notified her
that she would not be allowed to
preach her Anarchistic doctrines,
whereupon The North American, with
an evident purpose TO make capital
among the unemployed for it's politi-
cal interests, declared that it was an
outrage to interfere with the right of
free speech" and at once began a
series OF attacks upon the city author
ties
THE NORTH AMERICANS RECORD
Commenting upon the action of the
yellow journals, the Philadelphia In
qutrer, OF recent date, said:
"We presume that the New York
Journal and the Philadelphia organ
of Wanamakerism, familiarly known
as the Yellow Pest, would resent the
implication that they have been in
any way responsible for the crime
And yet they. by their attacks upon
public men without cause, have been
firing the brains of Anarchists and
leading crack-brained persons to be-
lieve that the removal of public Off
cials is something to be commended;
''The man who shot the President
conIesscS that he has been a pupil Of
Emma Goldman, the infamous beast,
who was, not many months ago sup
pressed by the police force of Philadel-
phia.
She came to this city to spread her
doctrines of assassination and disas-
ter The mayor and the director of
public safety served notice that she
would not be allowed to speak. I'm
mediately yellow journalism took up
her cause.
And what did the newspaper that is
run by Wanamaker money say?
Here are some quotations.:
1.-The silencing of Emma Goldman
is an outrage.
1.-THE example of lawlessness being
given by the police authorities is at
once dangerous and disgraceful. Should
force be met with force the moral re-
sponsibility would rest upon the stu
pid despots of the City Hall.
The law should be brought to bear
upon the lawless mayor and director
OF public safety
"'Now she Emma Goldman) be-
comes the representative of the Amer
lean right to free speech.
"Tt is TO be wished that somebody
might show sufficient public spirit to
contest in the courts the power of the
police department TO say who shall or
shall not have the right to address pub
lie meetings.
There is no law in the United
States against preaching the gospel of
Anarchy
mo law against preaching the goS-