The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-01-28
THE SUBSIDIZED NEWSPAPER.

There one secret which the trial and conviction of
the Chicago banker Walsh has exposed in all its sinister
significance.
1t constitutes a warning to every reading man and
in the United States
1t shouts aloud to people who are being fooled.
Walsh convicted points at law. That is
thing jury found him guilty of Juggling with other
peoples money for his advantage Unless something
Unforeseen turns up this man, repued to be worth $780,
100000, must go to Jail common criminal.
But, most of all, this trial has exposed the powerful
and poisonous influence of the subsidized newspaper
1t shows how much it is worth to be able to keep
telling people that the green grass is blue and also that
it you tell them often enough and loudly enough great
many of them will believe it.
1t is the real thing in gold bricks.
Walsh was man of affairs. From poverty he had won
his way to ahuence His tackled onto corpora
ton after corporation railroads. electric companies
coal companies, quarres, companies trust compan
aes savings banks and even great national bank. He
thought in millions, not in beggarly hundreds He had
to grind irons to heat trades to make and the big
game of politics to play, because politics is the
where nearly everything is played these days Politics
sells coal and unoads stock and buys franchises and gets
deposits, and Walsh of the boys He played poll
tics for all there in him. And the beneficiary of
Walsh's game was-Walsh.
First of all he wanted-Infuence.
He that it expeent that he should make pub
lie opinion
He perceived how he could plant himself guaranteed
orchard that he would need only to 90 out and shake
the trees and the ripe golden fruit would fall off into his
hat
In 1896 he founded the Chicago Chronicle. 1t
labeled democratic Newspaper" But it wasnt 1t
Walsh newspaper Its creed began ~ believe in
Walsh and Washs profits and believe the democratic
donkey will have to carry us, too.
Unfortunately, the Chicago readers did not this
creed. They knew Walsh of the party leaders
and that the Chronicle of the party newspapers
1t fairly breathed authority.
So when Walsh wished to pacate enemy, there
the Chronicle When he wanted to boom stock there
the Chronicle The Chronicle could pay his debts and
furnish him credit When he got ready to bambooze the
public what easier than to open up systematic
pagn through the columns Of this honest newspaper and
drag the party by the heels to stand for what
plan ght be in the air for the further emoument
of the man behind the ink pot?
Walsh admitted the stand that the Chronicle cost
him 100000 a month!
That's how much it worth to him too-and
Walsh didn't throw away his money He wasn't that sort
So this is the story how the lightning down and
struck one subsidized newspaper There plenty
Perhaps the lightning hasn't had time to get around
maybe there isn't enough lightning.
These days of education The public learning its
hard to spot the tainted press when you wake up
ito the fact that there tainted press 1t gives itself
away. It's indignation is always too rabid; its aduation
is always too fawning The check book of the man be-
hind the ink pot shows through its editorials in it's para
graphs, In It's news stories. 1t is fraud and liar
Now that has been exposed, quite prepared
to hear public opinion cry 'Next?'
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