Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-06-16
THE EFFECT ABROAD
Bu. Things Are Being Bettcred at
Home.

happy one NtanNdlS NJ nome nave
pursued him across the sea. Hard
upon the exposure OF corruption in
the public service. with high oGoiais
smirched or indicted or found il-
~. came the revelations OF uusound-
ness in private commercial morals.
The insurance crookedness OF last
year was followed and accentuated
this year by the uncoyering OF graft
in the Pennsylvania company; now
comes the reyerberating scandal OF
the packing business. with every one
wondering what reputation Is next TO
fall crashing The inevitable effect
upon European opinion was striking
ly set forth recently in a dispatch To
the sun from it's London correspond
eut. This was the more remarkable
FOR appearing in newspaper which
has long made a specially of fam
boyant patriotism To one not only
at ease. but boastful in Zion, the dis
agreeable Information is given:
II becomes the duty, however pain
full, of any conscientious correspond
ent 90 inform his countrymen of the
indictment which the world at large
is bringing against them and to warn
them that il is not corporate crimi-
nails alone who are being arraigned
% is the whole American people who
stand at the bar of public opinion be-
fore their sister nations. Never be-
fore has American commercial honor
been SO attacked abroad Never be
fore have the American people been
so criticised for neglecting their pri-
mary public duties.
The old world has come to believe
in general terms that American bust
ness methods are rotten. 1t is a
sad thing to write OF the reputation
of ones country, but it is the truth,
and the truth better he told without
disguise IT viii take more than "a
paper reorganization of the great life
insurance companies and a cleaning
of the Augean stables at Chicago to
restore European belief In American
honesty and fair dealing. 1t will be
long time before public opinion on
this side OF the Atlantic will have any
confidence in American corporate re-
form.
TO be entirely fair, we must bear
~ mind the fact that there has been
much exaggeration in the dispatches
sent to the London press by its cor
respondents in this country with
English journalism growing yellower
every year, its American news be
comes more lurid. One has only to
look at the kilograms sent from this
side TO the Standard, the Tribune.
the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and
the Express, to see that their CORE
spondents are expected to- transmit
whatever is startling or repulsiye
without too close scrutiny or toe
great moderation Of statement Even
the London Times has been partially
swept away 1t has, for example, in
this very matter Of the meat scan.
dals, credulously printed all the sto
ries and rumors anoat here. Fol
all this allowance has certainly to be
made IT American business dishon
or is hurting our prestige abroad
more than could the loss of "A dozer
battles, American yellow journalism
playing into the hands Of ignorant
or interruptions English correspond
ents. is innamlng foreign suspicious
and Tightening our national dis
grace.
with every deduction made, how
ever, the case is black enough. Amer
leans abroad must be rereading witt
new response OF soul the lines which
Lowell wrote I'm Europe I'm 1875
scanned the restoring news we half