Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-04-22

HEARST AZ ARkuTER SKETCH
The following very interesting arti.
Gle appeared on the editorial page il
the April number Of The Pilgrim. 9
magazlne published at Battle Greek.
Mich, edited by Willis Abbott, the
we'll known writer on. economic sub
jects. It will place Mr.. Hearst in q
new light to many.
''It may be Interesting to readers Of
The Pilgrim to know what type of a
man 1t is that has accomplished so
much in this political way. It so
happens that for ten years I have
known him we'll In both a business
and personal way. 1 have read at
different time articles attacking him,
and have read them with mingled
feelings eff indignation and resent
ment. In few cases, has the writer of
the article shown any knowledge of
Hearst's character. He has been de-
scribed az rich young man. who
gave no attention to his papers. am
in position to say, that if the Hearst
papers are good in any way. it is to
him that the fact is due. If they are
bad, it is upon him that the RESPONSE
bility lies.
For some years it was my task to
conduct the editorial page of the New
York Journal, aud I recall but few
nights, when, if Mr.. Hearst was in
town, he did not come to the office af-
ter midnight and go over with me the
editorial articles which appeared on
that page. do not remember many
days when he failed to appear at the
Office at two in the afternoon, and
later, at two in the morning, to look
over the makeup of the paper and to
read the proofs. Every other depart
ment of the newspaper received from
him the same personal attention. He
worked over forms in the composing
room, passed upon pictures and
"comic supplements and audited
bills with equal facility. That is not
the life of the ordinary rich young
man. 1t is rather the life of q man
who has made up his mind that he
has part to play in the world, a pro-
perty to conserve, and who devotes
himself wholly to the duty which he
has prepared for himself.
"But, after all, 1t is not because a
man is rich or poor, not because he is
either a good or a bad business man,
that he is fitted to be president of the
United States. William Mckinley
was both poor man and an extreme
~ bad business man. He was saved
from bankruptcy only by the contribu-
tions of political friends. Theodore
Roosevelt is, as men go in these days.
rich man, that is to say, that at no
time during his life has ever had rea-
son to fear a cry of the wolf at the
door. He is not rich as the latter. day
New York sentiment describes riches.
but he is rich beyond compari son
with eighty-five per cent of our clti-
zene. It is just and fair to say Of Mr..
Roosevelt that be has worked without
having the pecuniary need for work,
and that in doing that work, he has
not, so far as know, used his indie
pendent position to enable him to
compete with other men who had to
work for profit. In brief, he did write
books and wrote them we'll, but he
did not write them as so many young
men of large means do, for the glory
Of authorship, but took his stand
with men who write for q living. It
is not, therefore, because Mr.. Hearst
is a rich man who works, that he de-
serves consideration from his party,
neither is it fair to say that because
he is rich, a party which plumes it.
self on its devotion to the common
people should ignore him. It is be-
cause through his many newspapers
newspapers published now in New
York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco
and Los Angeles-he has at all times
strongly supported the democratic
doctrine, which began with Thomas
Jefferson and which was reafdrmed
for..the first time when the democra-
tic convention, in Chicago in 1895.
brought the party sharply back into
its historic lines. No man has at
tackled so strongly as he the monopo-
listic trusts which prey upon the peo-
pie of the nation. AS Mr. J. G..
Phelps Stokes. one of the wealthy