The Republican journal., 1908-06-18
"YEi[0W JOURNALISM"

and Adventures of Special Core
spondent," is not only of interest from
the sketches it gives of noted person
ages and the incidents of important
events, but it conveys a realizing sense
of the enterprise and expenditures of
the great dailies. Mr.. Creelman stands
today at the head of the special CORE
spondents, always a select few, aud in
literary ability, perseverance under diff
ficulties and bravery under fire, is Sec
ond to none of his predecessors. In his
first chapter he tells of his transfer
from Paris to home to interview the
Pope. That might we'll have been con-
sIdered a hopeless undertaking. for, as
Mr.. Creelman says: ga thousand years
of unbroken tradition stood between
me and the august head of the Chris
tian world, whose predecessors had turn
ed sceptres to dust and blotted out king
dcms." But he accomplished his task,
and the interview was we'll worth pre-
serving in enduring form. We next find
Mr. Creelman at the storming of Pen
Yang. An 'Interview with the King OF
Corea," "a Ride with the Japanese In
vaders in Manchuria," and the Battle
and Massacre of Port Arthur follow
But these chapter headings give only
faint impression of the exciting stories
thew relate. Notable chapters are those
on visit to Count Tolstoy, an in
Gerview with Captain general Weyler
1.-THE Butcher in his Havana palace;
a Talk with Kossuth, and an interview
tFith Sitting Bull.
But it was not our purpose TO review
the book save in its relation to the
newspaper, and in this connection the
chapter on Familiar Glimpses of Vel
low Journalism" is of much interest.
Mr.. Creelman recalls the fact that the
yellow newspapers were accused OF
bringing on the war that freed Cuba
and released the Philippine archipela-
90 from her tyranny" and that when
This was accomplished the newspapers
were forgotten or ignored and little
politicians arose and with their hands
on their breasts, acknowledged they
had done tie thing and we're willing to
have it known of men,. Before the
destruction of the battleship Maine IN
fhe harbor of Havana, the New York
journal sent Frederick Remington, tile
DISTINGUISHED artist, to Cuoa Win IN
structions to remain there until the war
began. Presently Mr.. Remington tele-
praphed Mr.. II earst from Havana tllat
everything was quiet, there would be
no war. and he wished to return. MT.
Heart replied: please remain. You
furnish the pictures and III furnish The
war" And he did. Then is told the
story of how the release of Evangellna
Cisneros. a girl of seventeen, sentenced
60 twenty years imprisonment on the
African coast for having taken part IN
the uprising of Cuban political prison
ers. was secured, and the bringing OF
the girl to this country. 1t was all done
through the agency OF this 'yello"
New York Journal. A more noteworthy
Sncident in which the newspaper sought
TO render service to the government
that it could not render or have render
ed itself occurred during the war with
,Snain. When Admiral Camara was pre-
pairing to sail with powerful Spanish
fleet to attack Admiral Dewey in Manila
bay, two American monitors, armed
with ten inch rifles, were on their
.1yay across the Pacific to the Philip
mines. 1t was perilous situation, for
it was known to the authorities that
xlnless these monitors arrived in time
Admiral Dewey's squadron would be
too weak to meet the Spanish fleet. MI.
Creelman, who was then in the London
office of the New York Journal, receiv-
ed instructions from Mr.. Hearst to "at
once make preparations, so that in case
the Spanish fleet actually starts for
Manila we can buy some big Engllsh
steamer at the eastern end of the Med
5ferranean and take her to some part
csf the SueZ canal where we can then
sink her and obstruct the passage OF the
Spanish war ships" The Spanish fleet
left Spain and actually entered the Suez
canal. but abandoned the expedition to
return to the threatened coast of Spain,
and the sinking of a steamer in the
narrow channel was made unnecessary.
Had that emergency arisen, no one can
doubt but the instructions to MI. Creel-
man would have been carried out, at
whatever cost
But journalism that acts is no new
thing," says MI. Creelman, and after
citing what the London Times did many
years ago that might be considered
yellow journalism" he says: "The
New York Herald sent Stanley to find
Livingstone in Africa and equipped the
J eannette expedition to search for the
North Pole. The New York Times
smashed the great Tweed ring, which
had plundered and defed the public for
wears. The New York World averteda |