Bisbee daily review., 1906-04-11
BlsBEE DAILY REVIEW, BlSBEE, ARIZONA.
A REPLY TO HApGnOp-


 Hers. in an address before the iIn- temporary Club, at Philadelphia. on March 11th, repeated his attacks or the press of the United States. Dr. William Bayard Hale, managing edit or of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, made a spirited rejoinder. in which he pictured the policy of the so- called National Weekly" The New York Times reports what Dr. Hale said, as follows:
 Dr. Hale said: "In extenuation of the crimes with which We are ac- cused. I can only plead, on behalf of myself and a number of colleagues, that apparently We had totally mis- conceived the idea and purpose of newspaper. Until the distinguised editor who comes to us ~,onigh. crowned with the laurel of well-adver tised victory (the Town Topics Case) had instructed LIS, We had not under stood that the chief end of the throb- ping press was to wage mcrciiess war on those fearfa! agents u- ~ae: Bromo-seltzer, Orangeine Powders, and Pink Pills for Pale People.
 We had not discovered the great truth that civic interests. internation- al politics, the clash at home and abroad of ideas and principles, the issue here between Church and State, there between revolution and con serratism, the progress of science, art. literature-we had not discerned that to describe all this was nothing when we might be telling the history. making story of Hostetter's BitIers and Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup; that it was of far less consequence that the Japanese took Port Arthur than it was that Mrs. Smith, of Kai- amazoo took Peruna.
 Empires are convulsed, Gynasties totter, governments fall, Legislation more important than any since the civil war Is enacting at Washington. Fatuitously we have been watching these commonplace events when we should have been exposing. and in cidentally advertising, a contemDti- ble society journal which a vast maEsrity of decent Americans had never seen or heard of before--nor smelt.
 Not one newspaper editor in thousand ever heard of the PToprie tary Association of America which Mir Hapgood tells you has its skeleton fingers on our throars, not one in len thousand ever saw so much as na:T of the tail of yellow dos of any description. We are not even cor rupted now by passes. to Atlantic City, and we, like ordinary clay, nowadays have to contribute our nickle to the soulless Rapid Transit Corporation or walk home
 There is not any romance; there isn't any opportunity or heroS< dis dain of the tempter about the work Of newspaper editor as most of us know it. He just goes ahead gather ing and printing si1e news.
 "The issue is whether the p1ess is to continue to be an agency for the spread of inforaation or is to de- generate into a common scoll
 ''We glance at the publication which Mir Hapgood conducts with such sin nal ability. sBd what do we find" We find its whole strength and genius bent to persuade us that the financial world is a structure of cor rrption: that the United States Treas ury is criminally inefficient; thar the United States Senate is a club of dissoluse and incapable millionaires, and the House lair of bandits whose chief business Is the promotion of private graft bills; that war pension CTS are dead beats; that college ath-