Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
THE LEOPARD AND HIS SPOTS
Willie Ridiculous Hearst and the Farce
He Is Playing Before the
American Public
From the San Diego Tribune.

From the San Diego Tribune
During the days first following the
distressing occurrence at San Fran
cisco over two weeks ago, there were
many incidents connected with the
disaster which pointed to very un-
lovely traits in human nature and
others which tended to disgust the
public and cast doubt upon the sin
cerity of those who made themselves
prominent in relief activity. The
more startling exhibitions of unnat-
ural propensities to prey upon the un-
fortunate have been noted in the
news reports, and as reference to
them can do only harm the sooner
they are forgotten the better. OF the
other incidents, some of which pro-
duced profound disgust in the public
mind the most conspicuous, not ex-
cepting the wholesale looting of the
ruins of wrecked homes, were those
which were Haunted in the faces of a
sympathy -enthralled people by w. r.
Hearst and his string of blatant yell
low papers. Probably never before in
the history of the world has journal
ism played so despicable a part in an
event of large importance, and per-
haps never before has a man at
tempted to advance his personal, self
ish ambitions through misfortune of
a number of people. A more revolt
ing exhibition of shamelessness and
utter indifference to the contempt of
the more intelligent of his fellow-men
has not been given in this country
since it was discovered by white men.
Yet it is in keeping with the character
of the man as this has been revealed
in his former attempts to impose him
self upon the public and it probably
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from public life by the contempt of
a thoroughly aroused people.
Anyone who read no newspapers but
one of the Hearst organs during first
ten days or so after the San Fran
cisco calamity would have been given
to understand that the salvation of
the destitute depended entirely upon
the efforts made by Hearst, and that
provision for feeding, clothing and
sheltering them and providing for the
stricken city's sanitation and rebuild
ing were made possible only by the
unparalleled generosity and genius of
this lf-adVertising bassoon.
But Hearst has been using his
loud-mouthed newspaper organs for so
long and so persistently in imputing to
himself virtues which he never has
possessed that his effrontery has de-
feated the object for the attainment
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self-laudation. There are many fools
in ninety million people, but not many
persons except them have been taken
in for long by Hearst's unmitigated
quackery. Furthermore, the decent
press of the country does not hesitate
to expose him. and 1t has not spared
him in the most recent exhibition of
charlatanry. 1t will be remembered
that the Hearst Los Angeles organ
blazoned forth the generous relief re-
sponse of the people of that city as
the generosity of w. r. Hearst. That
chrome sheet used up most of the
front page of several Issues with big
type claiming the credit for trainloads
of supplies sent to San Francisco, and
the Hearst employees had the nerve
to attach to the side Of one trainload
of Los Angeles relief supplies, after II
had left the city, streaming banner
labelling 1t as Los Angeles Examiner
relief train.
In short, Hearst by sharp practice
at a time when others were busy
sending relief to starving and shiver-
ing homeless thousands, took all the
credit for their contributions.
What farce this man has been
playing before the American public
for years And what pity California
should have 10 be the scene OF his
abominable latest exhibition.