Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-04-12
ABOUT MAKING TROUBLE.

| The Denver Republican, under the
appropriate caption. RULES for Yellow
Journalism" states with great accu-
racy what the policy Of that class OF
Journalism Is. 1t is, making trouble It
thrlves on the trouble II succeeds In
conjurlng up like the loathsome beasts
that deyour their own offspring.
Make trouble, make II turbulent
trouble. n you can, but make trouble
That Is the first and the last. the alpha
| and the omega OF that class Of Journal
ism. Here are some paragraphs from
our Denver contemporary:
| IAN enterprise that gives employ
| ment 10 people. pays taxes and builds
| up community affords unlimited
| scope for trouble once n gets estab-
| llshed. hop onto 1t. Its special priv
| ileee is TO do the best II can; ours the
special privilege to do It. SHOW how II
makes money Others who make
| money are our meat. we need II. SHOW
| how IL makes more than any workman
| in ts employ that makes the work
mon suspicious and they viii buy to-
morrows paper Ia hnd out how they
| arc being iobbed Then thev viii vote
for us because We tell them what
wicked men are those who pay them
wages"
Remember that trouble making be-
comes contagious, like breeds Ike. II
one OF our fellows gets So enthusiastic
that he Just has 10 go out and XIII a
a
remember that we put him up TO N,
and stand By him, He is playing our
game. Put the crime onto the COR
porations. the owners OF properties and
the employers. II tlCkles our fellows,
aud the others are against us anyhow.
II may bother some people 10 under
stand why rich men should Kill each
other and blow up their own proper
ties. They VIII buy our papers TO get
the answer. (This is about the clever
est thing we doD Trouble. trouble,
until the people are unable to think
Then they get TO guessing we must be
right See?'
Keep the people guessing. Never
let them rest q minute; they might get
o. thinking. There are always new
ways 10 mako trouble, Persistence
and faithful pursuit OF them Will earn
YOU a nice ham every Christmas so
long MS YOU are able to keep on trou-
bling. and a big funeral when you die
II was great PHILOSOPHER who for
INFLATED the axiom about fooling peo-
pie. whether tho honor belongs to Linz
coin or Barnum. but the yellow peril
I'm journalism comes as near fooing all
the people all the time as 1t is possible
to perform that feat simply by making
trouble. and stirring up discomfort.
How long viii the sensible American
public tolerate the antics that easily
may become menace to public safety?
The fool that plays with fire In the
vicinity of q haystack. or who rocks
the boat for the pleasure of seeing
confusion, is more harmless than the
yellow scandal 1monger who has no
other ambition In life than to stir up
trouble. for his own profit.
According 10 a Washington dispatch.
President Roosevelt intends dealing
with the magazine writer's and others
who recently have tried To create the
Impression that our national govern
menl Is rotten. He will. It is said,
deliver a speech on Decoration day at
Norfolk Va, In which he will make
clear MS conviction that certain Of
these writer's have brought many peo-
pie To false view OF political and
economic leaders and will condemn
them for creating this impression. II
is understood that the President will
lay particular stress upon the failure
of trouble brewers TO point out the
good that exists among the big men
of the nation and contrast this with
the ayldity with which they have made
a business OF Takng up all the graft
aud rascality they can lind. 1t is UNI
derstood also the President viii call at
tention to their failure to expose the
men responsible for murder and Grim
inal persecution in connection with la
Dor troubles.
Success 10 this effort It is high
time that the methods of trouble
makers be exposed. and that they be
condemned as public enemies. That
Is their true character,