The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-18
A. SOCIALIST ON HEARST.


The Late William HI. English's Grand
son Discusses the Erratfc Editor.
Mr.. English Walling grandson of the late
William H. English, of Indianapolis, who
recently became a resident at social set
Element in the New York slums, and who
is said to be a believer in the doctrine of
socialism, contributes to Wilshire's Maya
zine, a socialistic periodical published at
Toronto, Canada, an estimate of willie"
Hearst, which shows that those who have
taken that editorial mountebank seriously
are beginning to discover his insincerity.
Mr. Wallings comments, which may have
a local interest as showing how far the
young man has departed from family po-
litical traditions, is here given:
Mr. Hearst Is more or less a mystery to
certain advanced thinkers. They see him
publishing a great paper, with en- enormous
circulation, and with a policy which is, on
the whole, very socialistic. and whose edi-
American daily. and yet they are always
prepared for the most glaring inconsistency
on his part at any moment. For instance,
one day they find him showing up the abso-
lutte impossibiity of doing anything in the
way of destroying the trust, because the
trust represents the natural evolution of
industry, and the next day he comes out
with an editorial declaring for the destruc-
ton of so-called criminal trusts. whereas,
by his own analysis, he has shown that the
trust cannot be criminal, because 1t is
simply a creation of natural law. Again, he
will show the impossibility of ones obtain
ing justice under the existing competitive
system, when the machinery of production
Is owned by few great monopolists, and
then he follows with an editorial to the ef-
feet that all one has to do in order to get
along, is to attend strictly to the employ
ment in which God has seen fit to place
him in this world. Later on, he will have an
editorial showing that all the poverty on
this earth is not traceable to the monopoly
of the earth by the Vanderbilts and the
Rockefellers but to the drinking of whisky
by the workingmen; and then. to cap the
Climax If more were needed to confuse peo-
pie to his insincerity he keeps on put
ting before the public in a delicate manner.
STABILITY of Mr.. Hearst's being elected
President of the United States.
1T seems to me that from his own stand
point and from whatever way we may
look at it, this last stroke is the worst pos
sible policy. can conceive how. in order to
keep all classes of readers and hold his
advertisers. he must give all sorts of views
as to what should be done, and advocate
temperance, the destruction of trusts ma
tional ownership of trusts, tariff REFORM
and everything else which will bring fish
into his net; but when he utilizes his paper
to boom himself for the presidency, he i'm
mediately makes a large number of people
feel that after all he does not mean any
thing he says, but simply says his say in
order to place himself in the presidential
chair.
my own theory regarding Mr.. Hearst is
very simple one. He is following an ir-
resistible law OF his nature to bring about
as to how to do 1t. He is also following an
irresistible law which forces him TO take
care of his own individuality. and the re-
suit Of his Ignorance of economic laws on
the one hand. together with his extreme
egotism on the other, has the effect of
making many people misunderstood him."