Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1904-02-25

speeches. but he draws the attention oil
his hearers and gives the impression to
the many on those occasions, Just as he
does to the few whom he meets person
ally, that he is thoroughly conversant
with his subject and that he has looked a
little farther into the study of economics
than have many who are assumed to be
economic seers; that he is a man who
realizes that he has mission to fulfill,
and that il in brief, to be of benefit to his
fellew men. His style of speaking is not
OF the kind that infames and appeals to
mems prejudces ami passions. He has
eaid:
eff our principles, our arguments, our
ideas, cannot stand the test of annal ysis
resulting from sober and profound
thought, they are worthless. When l
desire to say anything at public gather
ing, I shall do it calmly and after thought,
and shall expect to stand OH the sound.
ness Of statements made without the
mental and often misleading exaltation
that frequently accompanies the orator
before large crowd"
Another significant fact in Mr.. Hearst s
career is that the men he now has about
in his various enterprises are the men
he associated with himself when, fresh
from college, he engaged in his first
venture.
Mr.. Hearst's first commercial enter
prise was the San Francisco Examiner,
an old-line democratic newspaper of
small circulation and archaic policy. He
was just from college and had neither
training nor experience, but he set HIM
self to learn the business OF running a
newspaper, and lie did learn it from the
foundation. On the unpromising founda-
ton of the old Examiner he reared a
newspaper of influence and power. He
cut loose from all traditions and gave the
people OF the Pacific coast a journal that
for enterprise, energy, accuracy. honesty
and brilliance was unapprochable. Nat
urally, circulation came to it, until it is
now one of the most widely circulated
newspapers in the country and business
success famous in the newspaper world.
AS soon as the prosperity Of the Ex-
aminer was assured Mr.. Hearst went to
New York and bought the Journal,
poor and unpIeasing property, and from
mis- he has created the most extensive
journalistic fabric the country has ever
known. The New York American, the
German edition-all sprang from this
seed.
His unerring business instinct showed
him another field in Chicago, where the
newspapers We're fin combination that
forbade real competition. On July a.,
1900, Hearst's Chicago American made
its initial appearance. 1t was paying
newspaper almost from the first issue,
and now the Chicago American, evening,
and the Chicago Examiner, morning,
are among the foremost papers of the
country.
Wherever Mr.. Hearst has started a
newspaper the wages OF newspaper work
ers have been raised. 1t is part OF his
business creed that the employe is en-
titled TO fair share Of the prosperity Of
the employer. Following this principle,
he has always been an ardent supporter
Of the trades unions, and it is a con.
spicuous fact that while he is one of the
largest employers OF skilled labor in the
world, he has never mad any serious
tronbe with his men in any of the enter
prises in which he is engaged.
Mr.. Hearst is conservative business
man, careful and certain in every step
but his conservatism is not a slavish adj
herence to hidebound forms and methods,
nor greedy hostility to every interest
that is not his own.
His opposition to the predatory attacks
of vicious monopolies has frequently
brought the accusation that Mr.. Hearst
is an enemy of capital and foe of bust
ness, an accusation peculiarly absurd
from the mere fact that he himself is a
large capitalist and one the heaviest and
most successful business men in the
United States. His position in relation to
these matters he himself set forth in his
speech accepting the nomination to con-
gress, in 1902. He said:
Ibelieve that OF the eighty millions Of
people in this country, five or six millions
(the most prosperous five OF six millions,
are ably represented in congress, in the
law courts and in the newspapers. 1t
would be immodesty on my part to
imagine that could add much to the
comfort of prosperity Of the few who are
so thoroughly we'll looked after. My
ambition is to forward the interests o!
the seventy millions or more Of typical
Americans who are not so we'll looked
after. Their needs seem to offer wider
field for useful effort. At the same time
let me say that do not seek to divide
the nation into classes or foster unreason'
ing dislike of one class by another. l can
recognize and admire the genus and
generosity Of the great captains Of indus