Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-16
AS TO YELLOW JOURNALISM.
Mr.. Munsey Held Up by a Corre-
spondent and Beautifully Spanked
Good and Hard.

Good and Hard.
WASHINGTON, d. c., February -, 1909.
Editor Sunday Globe.
hear that Mr. Munsey is calling your
paper yellow rag time journal, and throw
ing stones at you because you happen TO be
unfortunate Tor almighty honest, perhaps
in not having a wholesale fund of unstinted
and magnifed praise for department en-
ployes who are Thirsty for published 40
toriety.
Now ! don't happen to know Mr.. Muusev
nor have anything personally against him.
don't want to call the aforementioned
gentleman liar, nor villify him in any way
whatever. do, however believe that Mr..
Munsey is mistaken when he claims that
your paper is yellow. While your sheet
has been as a gold mine in 1.-THE interests Of
honesty, especially in regard to improving
the slandered merit system in connection
with the various departments in Washing.
ton, yet hardly believe that you have ac-
quired a single coat of yellow paint in con-
sequence of showing up fraud and favor
itism.
The true trouble with Mr Munsey is in
his eyes The gentleman can't see right
nor do ! believe he ever could see right, 70.
quote from the Red Mans vocabulary. Ger
tainly this man who is engaged in running
entire columns of much-magnifed depart
ment sassiety blatherskite, ought not to try
the stone throwing racket, especially when
he lives in glass house and is endeavor-
ing, child-like, to engage in rubbing the
backs of the departmental Thomas and
tabbY cats in order to help the circulation of
a new brand of daily newspaper (2) Yellow
journalism, in the true sense, has always
been understood as publishing columns of
much magnihed stuff and nonsense, in other
words, making much out Of nothing and
calling public attention to the small end of
nothing whitfield off to point.
Now any person or persons upon giving
the subject a thought will see, clearly see
that the encouragement Times is a gen
uine yellow journal and an almighty vapid-
faced and insipid one at that.
Going around trying to make very cheap
Government clerical employees (most of
whom never were even certified by the
Civil Service Commission, nor went through
the certi6catiou mill of initial ef6ciencvl
ought to be very exceptional persons of re-
nown and ability. BAH go to work, sure
enough work, and run a breezy, newsy daily
paper. Get out of the handbill business
and run something like New York news
paper and not an exaggerated haring mass
of printed AOut. The very fact of the
GLOBE waking up a nest of buzzing depart
ment hornets in time past speaks volumes
for it as a hard-hitting and much-needed
publication sheet
Prior to the advent of the SUNDAY
GLOBE a large clique of the department
fash element (who swayed the Civil Ser
vice to meet their own selfish and indi-
vidual endsl seemed to think they owned
the whole United States, and that they and
theirs were paramount issues" forever and
ever
Nowadays, however, things are changing
for the better, and certain snowy Govern
ment females formerly a large and grow
ing class and swell-headed infuentials of
the male persuasion, are finding their level
and are not obnoxiously too very much in
evidence. The GLOBE has fought for the
nations defenders as no other paper has
True it has not gone around and caused
palavering taffy upon a few of the more
fortunate ones who happened to be draw
ing salaries from the department pay rolls.
The SUNDAY GLOBE does not belittle itself
with pitch penny games, not bit of it, but
fights on a broad plans; fights as a paper
run by a man fights, and that's a fact. In
Turkey and other places and parts of the
Old World, where we have a suppressed
and cowed press-well what's the RESULT
Simply that those in power annually abuse
their hidden strength and WELD sceptres
that stoop to furthering the interests of
their own party to the everlasting detriment
Of all claims toward honesty and individual
justice.
The new Times will not set any rivers on
FIRE, nor will it ever do anything else be-
yond showering unstinted and maudlin
praise upon the Washington department
people in its immediate vicinity, and fur
nishing the usual humdrum daily news,
gossip. etc.
Notice Mr.. Munsey ought to see an eye
doctor by all means
PETER PICKUP.