Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-10-22
A Glance at the Situation

and William R Hearst, and of these the last named is become the most interesting He is mysterious man, and mystery is ever fascinating 1hey say he buys his brains, but 1t takes brains as well as money to do that. They say he will not talk: neither would U. s. Grant, an1 Grant was eight years president. He is loved and hated, respected and feared. And he is either a great man or the moat consummate advenyturer in America. For mere intellect there are men in America who have more of it than Roosevelt, Bryan and Hearst toseth- CT: but it takes more than intellect 10 mako d great man. Hamilton had more of il than Washington, but
 Washington Was infinitely -t4a greater man; Webster had more of i than
 Jackson bu' Jackson WAS b far the greater man. eonkling had more of | than Grant. but Grant Wa4 hitch the greater man. Carlisle had more of it fhaa Cleveland. but CIeveIand is a .o0g way the 4aoaJzr man When " think of 1hes sRsfarmatioa. is on Luther, moi Melgncthon, our minds dwell and vel Aelgncthou had more intellect than Luther. Toltaife had more intellect than Frederick the Great I had liked to have said that Frederick Was tha greater man. but take that back.
 Whatever We may think Of him this man Hearst is no ordinary character He Is power in journalism. and yet who would class him with R:tchie or Greely, OF Raymond, or Dana, or Prentice, or Blair, or Watterson2 He has the largest audience of any man in the entire world, and his influence over it is absolute The child of wealth, he is the champion of labor and labod takes him at the label Ar thur Brisbane has posted on him, and blown in the bottle. No ordinary character could play the part, though he were worth thrice S4o,000,o0o
 The newspaper profession is the no- blest of them all if the editor has the gift of truthful speech and the cour age to print what his heart conceives and his mind forges. One of the greatest of all journalists was Jona- than Swift, and why? Because the Examiner was the honest thought of a powerful find For the influence he exercised on the sedate and respect able thought of the United States, Horace Greeley was the greatest American journalist, and Henry J. Raymond was nearly his equal Both Greeley and Raymond went into poll. tics and both found it bitter cup. Who can read Greeleys letter dis solving the firm of Seward, Weed and Greeley" without admiration and without roget? Dana the greatest newspaper man" of them all, was not severely bitten by the political ta- rantula, but he was assistant secretary of War under Stanton and discovered a genius for administration that would have stamped him a great man in any official station Watterson served short time in congress. but his field is to CA 0a cty-1n the most captivating of any editorial writer American journalism has devel- oped. Francis P. Blair ST. was the stay of Jackson's administration. Ney- CT was there wiser or an honester counselor
 Jefferson $ eulosy of the press was d free, an honest, brave an az eressive press With such an insti luton Liberty is immortal. Given a muzzlcd press. and liberty is in dam ger of the poor house or the jail. or both Mr. Hearst has not appealed to th respectable class. II t1Iks tao much abont Hecuha. and ems to think q deal o. lFeouba-too much per ha9s, He is HlaNiE2 q h'2 2ame an f 'ac' holds h may win sfeatest eff'ee iq th- word.
 'fh=v' is romance that ncarE dead Imshmaa. soldier in the revolu r.a"ary army of France. made his wav t4 Geaoa when the heroic Ma@sena was acfcndia4 that own aeaia-t tho blockade of the English fleet and tho s:ege of the Austrian army. The noor devil told Massena that. Bonaparte, then first consul was crossins tho
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