The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-04-23

Whenta man poses before the public
as a candidate for the highest office i'll
the gift of the people; he must expect
his pedigree to be analyzed at least one
generation back, and never fails to
have his personality in it's worst phases
photographed on the minds Of the pub
lie; his great achievements as a rule
come to the surface with funeral ora
tion.
Today we are facing battle for SUI
premacy in the political field which will
be decided next November, and one of
the contestants is likely to be William
r. Hearst. Perhaps the worst thing his
opponents can cite against him is that
he is successful newspaper man, con-
trolling eight of the ~ablest written pub
LEGATIONS in the county and that he is
fearless, when the cause Of justice
towards all is to be weighed in the bal
ance. But Mr.. Hearst stands for some
thing though born with silver spoon
in his mouth, she stands for true DEM
ocracy characterized as he is as yell
low journalist - whatever this term
means - yet his editorials TEEN with
great moral lessons from the ablest
pens, equal to the best pulpit sermons.
Mr.. Hearst, though capitalist, in the
vulgar sense of money, has opposed the
other capitalists when they have sought
to traduce the best interests of the
country, and in this he has used his ten
talents wisely he. has opposed the
criminal trusts and that is all, he has
never opposed legitimate capital. The
fact that Mr. Hearst embodies two
qualities rarely found in one man-an
able manager and editor - speak a
whole volume of success. He is master
newspaper man. He has fought in and
out Of the trenches against public
wrongs, has been a charitable and
philanthropic' man at all times. He
believes in publicity which sustains the
Bible saying, Let your light so shine
before men, etc., and when he sent
three train loads Of provisions to the
Galveston sufferers and corps Of ply
sicians and nurses, and $4,000 to Gov
enor. sayers for an orphan. asylum,
q would YOU ina agine he. Is q man?
eaEstIhss
Hdayzhe prac ticesss ia t he preaches. IIe
fought the Ramapo ROBBERS III NeB
York who sought to steal the water
supply and beat them; he defeated the
execrable schemes, Of the Ice trust IN
New York; brought them into court and
proved their conspiracy Of greed and
saved an ice famine.
He has fought, in court, the coal COM
bines and their cohorts the railroad
combines which brought about the
coal famine of 190273, and the supreme
court of the United States has recent
1y sustained him. and which in the end
. will defeat their nefarious plot. Mr..
:; Hearst Is Democrat because he could
not be anything else and be true to
himself and Jefrersonian principles
which stand for equal rights.
When he was just getting his paper
fairly on it's feet in New York, the 1896
campaign was on, he supported VIM. J..
was brought to bear against him which
Threatened his advertising columns he
was brave enough to say, Il am DEM
ocrat, and no mere question of personal
profit or loss, will induce me to turn
my back on my party, I will support
my ticket i'll do not print an adver-
tisement in New York" This much
abused man has backed up all mottos
and has put his hand in his pocket in
doing so.
Any country ought to be proud in
possessing man of this stamp of char
acter; he leads as a successful journal
ist, and if it is yellow it seems to be
popular, since nearly every paper is
trying to follow suit.
: A poet remarked, "Truth is too SIM
pie, we hate to have our illusions un-
masked. D. A. Petre.
Duluth, aMinn.,