The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-10-09

the Brisbane labor editorials are CIR
culated in factory towns and other
sections where the circulation can
! vassers can best use them; he has d
personal acquaintance with all the
large advertisers. and has organized
the advertising department. through
which the funds to pay the running
expenses flow In. Business details
are to Mr.. Brisbane as editorial writ
ing are to Mr.. Carvalho. Mr.. Carval-
no. on the one hand. knows what man.
ner OF editorial comment and news
| handling will please the readers and
win the favor of advertisers; Mr.. Bris-
bane. on the other hand. knows how
to make the business policy effective.
The third of these men who give in
tellecutal substance to the Hearst
myth Is a lawyer. MIR. Clarence ].
Shearn. He was at first one of the
clerks and later junior partner OF
the law firm which defended the Jour-
nails multitudinous libel suits. He,
had charge of the preparation of the
cases. and was thus brought into con-
tact with Mr.. Carvalho and Mr..
Hearst. Mr.. Hearst learned of his
worth and induced him to leave the
law firm and join his staff. Mr.. Shearn
drafted the Hearst railroad rate bill.
the Hearst antitrust hill. the Hearst
gas bills. and the other reform legis-
lation which the Hearst newspapers
agitated, which Mr.. Hearst himself in
PRODUCED into state legislatures. Mr..
Shearn looks after the legal proceed
lnEs against the various trusts. but
these are brought in the name Of Will
liam Randolph Hearst as plaintiff or
on the relation OF William Randolph
Hearst as taxpayer or citizen. Every
few months one of these proceedings
is begun against the ice trust. the coal
trust, the gas trust or some other pub
lie monopoly. The Hearst newspapers
print 1t in full and blazon the name of
William Randolph Hearst as the one
rich man who at his own expense is
fighting the peoples battles.
These Hearst newspapers do not
circulate among the most highly edu-
Gated or the wealthy or the fashion,
able people of the cities wherein they
are published. They sell for cent.
are printed in ink of various colors
and with headlines of circus poster
type. Their Illustrations are fanciful
and often sensational The largest
space is given to tragedies. to murders
by women or on account Of women.
to elopements. scandals, and eXaggel>
ated descriptions OF happenings iii
that class of society whose notOriety
or wealth is best known. 1t is most
natural that the men and women
whose mental calibre is such that they
prefer this kind OF newspaper should
believe that it is really William Ran
dolph Hearst who writes and publish
es all the things which his newspapers
credit to him. The woman who reads
one of the editorials about babies has
kindly feeling toward Mr.. Hearst
for his sympathetic and friendly ad-
vice. The man who buys his coal il
halt-ton lots regards Mr.. Hearst as
his champion. The saloon keeper who
has had the price of his ice raised be-
lieves that if Mr.. Hearst were in pow
er the ice trust would be abolished.
The tenement-house dweller who be-
means his gas bills regards Mr. Hearst
as synonymous with fifty-cent gas.
The mctormen ard street car conduc-
tors who read Mr. Br.sbane's editor
ials hope for two dollars and half
and an eight-hour day as result of
Mr.. Hearst's political success.
Everybody who is wronged by I,
public service corporation or is dis
satisfied with the conditions of his