Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-07-11
NEws. Views AND aossIP.
Breezy Briefs From the Metropolis
Of the Nation.
(By Glenn Guernsey J

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celebrations, but the so-called Orange
uprising remains at the head OF the
list. 1t would be useless to drag
forth such narrowing recollections
from the limbo OF forgetfulness, ex-
cept to point moral and adorn
tale.
There was published in New York
at that time daily newspaper, now
happily gone to its long rest, which
justified its existence by serving as
the organ and mouthpiece OF the
Tweed ring. In some of its methods
II deserved the title of the original
yellow" journal of New York.
Whenever the ring was hard pressed
by outraged public sentiment or bell
ligerant reformers, the newspaper or
gan Immediately dug up some sensa-
ton that would attract the public at
tention.
1t was upon one of these occasions,
according to yeracious testimony,
that the managing editor of the
Tweed sheet called to his desk his
star" reporter.
Give us a sensation" he demand
cd. Il don't care what 1t is about,
but sensation we must have.
With the added incentive OF $S a
column for all that was published, In
addition to his salary. the brilliant
representative of the Fourth Estate
Matched In his teeming brain the plot
which had Its elimination in the Or
ange riot. one OF the bloodiest in
American history. The orangemen
were not the cause, but only the ex-
cuse. for the upriSlng.
Since that time, other New York
newspapers have illustrated the pow
or of the press in melting the popu-
lace on wild clamor for blood. Only
last summer one newspaper succeed
ed In producing among the feminine
population OF the city universal At
OF hysteria by It's exaggerated and
highly colored reports of attacks up
on women. Many innocent men were
attacked by mobs and incipient riots
resulted. The eleverly fostered' sex
hysteria reached threatening proper
lions before fresh sensations served
to divert the sleuth hounds of the
press to Other fields.
Yet the Orange riot remains as the
biggest news story ever manufactured
to order by any American newspaper.
What Is Poet?
Mr.. Ambrose Bierce. one OF William
Randolph Hearst's young men and
professedly literary critic, seeks to
east aspersions on the memory OF the
late John Hay by insinuating that he
was not poet. Mr., Bierce. al
though caustic and ieonoclastic
commentator, is usually just in his
conclusions, but there are many who
will disagree with his decision in re-
gard to Hays poetic ability.
Did Mr., Bierce ever read the fol-
lowing lines:
For ever In thine eyes. o Liberty,
Shines that high light whereby the
world is saved.
And, though they STAY us, we will
trust In thee"
II that is not poetry. Mr. Bierce,
what is 1t?
or course, the critic might urge
that the great statesman was mis-
taken as to the quality of the light
that shines in the eyes OF liberty;
that, in fact, the lady is blind; that
she is a myth. and that, If she really
existed, few OF us would trust her
with Ave cents, much less our val
liable lives. But that has nothing
TO do with the quality OF poetry.
sky Scraplng.
Time was, and that not so long
ago, when dinky squat little struc-
ture OF twenty or twenty-five stories
was considered veritable triumph
of the sky-soraplng art, We of New
York, who take such pride in our
high buildings. are almost ashamed
to admit that we were ever awed by
such toy buildings, yet such Is the
fact
/ Only last year, when the Singer
building had reared itself into the
blue empyrean to the ext ut of forty
one stories, we assumed a ehesty at
tltude as of one who had reached the
limit of achievement, and mailed
postcard pictures of the remarkable
edlfiee to our friends and enemies In
other cities Then. up on Madison
I Square. the Metropolitan Lifts tower
climbed mp to the height OF forty-six
stories.
Most of us have now reached a