New-York tribune., 1906-10-29
A STUDY IN CONTRASTS.

1t was perfectly characteristic of Mr. Hearst
TO make his indecent attack upon Mr.. Richard
Watson Glider, comparing him TO a quivering
mouse and an incubator baby" calling him "a
pathetic imitation of a young girl" and saying
the tender apple blossom blowing in the spring
wind has manliness in it than Mr..
'Gilder's body and SOUL" the instant Mr..
Glider crossed the path of his insane egoism.
1t is a part of Mr.. Hearst's megalomania to
ignore everything that anybody else ever did for
the cause Of humanity and to profess that the
wage earners and tenement house dwellers never
had friend until he began his campaign Of self
advertising championship of the peoples rights.
He proclaims himself the author of all recent
reforms, some of which he did his worst TO
block and treats with SneerS the service of faith
full men who, long before he came to New York,
were courageOusy, successfully and unselishly
doing practical work for the welfare of the
masses. we should expect Mr.. Hearst to think
that coarseness, obtuseness and blatant vul-
garity were marks of manness, and that the
sensitive, modest, unselfish, kind, gentle and
pure hearted person was pathetic imitation of
a young girl. Mr.. Hearst could not understand
such man. The finer qualities of mind and
soul are beyond the comprehension of the insist
ent egoist who has been for years recognized as
the fountain head Of vulgarity and vituperation,
Mr.. Hearst really pays a compliment by his
ing is almost to awaken the suspicion of decent
men.
AS Mr.. Jacob A. Riis has most effectively re-
called, Mr.. Glider has been a tower of strength
10 q movement for humanity for which Mr..
Hearst, If there were one atom of sincerity in
his soul, would be sounding his praises, in view
Of his own professions. Mr.. Hearst may not
know it-the sum total of philanthropy with
him is doing things to exploit Hearst-but thou
sands on thousands Of the men and women on
the East Side whose support Mr.. Hearst wants
know that their rescue from dark, tuberculous
tenements, and such chance as they have to
live and bring up their children In healthful
quarters, are due to Richard Watson Glider as
much as to any one man. He was a pioneer in
tenement house reform. Fifteen years ago his
was q voice crying in the wilderness of indf-
ference to the "dens of DEATH" The Glider Ten
ement House Commission was the first great
step to the building of improved tenement
houses. It's work reduced the death rate from
twenty-eight to eighteen thousand in this city
The fathers and mothers of the twelve thousand
babies whose lives he saved annually did not
think there was any lack Of manliness in his
work OF devising the law or in the personal per-
! suasiveness which won the hearts of the Legis-
lature to pass it. 1t is only Mr. Hearst who
! thinks such activities of a man who carried a
musket in the Civil War pathetically girlsh
and believes it would have been more manly for
Mr.. Glider TO have taken delivery wagon and
! run some of these tenement house dwelers down
and then hidden behind a corporation TO escape
! compensating them for the injury Mr. Hearst
/ often INDUCES in broad artistic and literary eff
fects, but he never presented TO the people a
more vivid cOntrast-the blackguard beside the
| gentleman.
! Mr.. Riis in his striking letter expresses the
wish that the Hearst attack and the record of
Mr.. elders work for the poor people might be
placed side by side and brought to the attention
Of every dweller in the tenement houses where
Nr. Hearst seeks his followers. He need not
worry. They will be. Hearst's portrait of him.
self as wOuld-be Governor who knows and
cares nothing about virtue and true philan-
thropy will be brought home to those whom
Mr.. Glider has so greatly benefited But by no
body could 1t be brought home more effectively
than by Mr.. Riis himself. We should like TO see
him read that attack and make his answer to
it every night from till election on the East
Side, where the people know him as their friend
and brother.