The San Francisco call., 1908-05-16


reasons why / do not permit the Oak
land Tribune or the Examiner in my
house One OF the reasons Is my
daughter. Is years of age. The other
reason is my daughter, Is years of age"
From address by Rev. II. j. VOsburgh,
pastor of the First Baptist church of
Oakland.
Concurring in a terrific arraignment
Of the corrupt and purchasable press
Of the state by Francis ]. Heney to-
night at the First Baptist church, in
which Bill Dargie's Oakland Tribune
Hearsts Examiner and De Young's
Chronicle were held up 10 the scorn of
al Recent men and women, Rev. Homer
J. NOsburgh. pastor Of the church and
known as one Of the foremost Baptist
ofVines on the coast, said:
There are two reasons why I never
permit the Tribune or the Examiner in
my house. One is a girl OF Is years
and another Is a girl of IS years. We
have family prayers at our house and
we read the bible together in devotional
services, and I think it would make our
family worship farce if we allowed
our children to see either of these
papers Immediately afterward Last
summer IN a trip TO the east 1 noticed
that residents Of that section had come
10 regard the attitude Of a consider
& loss to the community. 1t could be
and was purchased by the interests.
We have TIE same trouble here ana we
should remember"
Thus spoke the clergyman in COM
mendation of Heney's address. Heney
spoke in his most vigorous way before
the delegates TO the Pacific coast Bap-
tist conference, representing that de-
nomination in a biennial convention
which concluded today. Civic Corrup-
rion and How TO Get Rid OF It." was
Eeney's theme.
THE PRESS IS TO BLAME
In the course Of his address he said:
THE press OF the country is to blame
FOR the conditions Of corruption and
graft in the east and in San Francisco.
Public opinion on all subjects is nodded
BY the information given by the press.
a newspaper can never get higher than
dts source or be better than its owner
or editor. With Dargie as disreputable
and blackhearted a scoundrel as he is.
how can you expect the Oakland Trib-
une 10 be other than the infamous
sheet which 1t is known to be7
Dargie is a type. NJ H. de Young
of San Francisco wears better clothes
and makes pTetensions to social stand
Ing, but In his heart he is every bit as
black as Dargie. The Hearst papers of
the country are unfit to go into any
decent home, as Archbishop Quigley
OF Chicago knew, when he said re-
Gently; The Hearst papers have
preached assassination and anarchism
until all the world lays at their door
the blame for the assassination of
President Mckinley More recently the
assassination Of q priest at an altar in
Denver has been justly laid to the
Same source.
When one Of the foulest attempts at
M Dor rrrrfe -,
Gallagher bomb outrage in East Oak
land-shOcked the community, the Ex-
aminer cartOoned and ridiculed the
crime within IS hours after its COM
mission. though lives Of innocent men,
women and children were jeopardized.
Think OF il. Yet the businessmen of
this community advertise in the Ex-
aminer and take it into their homes.
And the Chornicle published an al
legged Interview with an alleged de-
tective insinuating that the graft
prosecution was responsible for the
Gallagher outrage in an attempt to
set the tide OF public opinion against
the higher ups
TO REPEAT THE OUTRAGE
That article was published in the
Chronicle with the express intention of
infaming the mind Of some anarchist
10 repeat the outrage and actually
murder Gallagher. The Chronicle
wants Gallagher dead to save some OF
DE Youngs friends from the peni-
tentiary in cases where everything
rests on Gsllagher's testimony. Pat
Calhoun and Abe Ruef supply the
motive for the Gallagher dvnamiting"
IN referring TO the situation in San
Francisco Heney said: THE indicted
manates there have employed thugs to
dog my footsteps and those of Burns
TO pick a row with either Of US and
TO XIII US in the row. What is the
outlook in a community where the
decent citizens tolerate criminals who
put the officers Of the law on trial and
who pervert the courts of justice by
misrepresentation subornation Of per-
jury and any method which seems to
hold out the shghtests hope OF saliva
tion 20 guilty men2
Bankers who are indirectly inter
ested il the situation like Hellman
OF the Wells Fargo Nevada National
which hOated the last issue Of United
Railroad bonds, had stacks Of Argo-
naUts for free distribution at their
banks and gave free subscriptions to
their employees 10 mold their opinion.
Alfred Holman. editor Of the Argonaut
has made IL his proudest boast that he
was born in the same town with Her
rim, the Southern Pacific boss Holman
frequently received checks for $500
J. Dingee. and Holman boasts that they
are given as an Endorsement of the
stand his paper has taken on public
questions.
DTsTORTs THE NEWS
The reports OF the graft trials are
fearfuily distorted by the corrupt press
daily and weekly. and it is most diff
cult matter to get the proceedings
fairly and truthfully presented to the
public because of the purchased color
ing in the crooked newspapers.
You see how Herrin and the cor
porations control this state under the
present system. Mike de Young. who
could not be elected pound master OF
san Francisco, is TO be sent as delegate
10 the Chicago convention George
Knight, another delegate who talks so
loud that he is unable to decide what
he wants. is a Herrin man. too. Otis
of Los Angeles stubbed his toe ana a
Lincoln Roosevelt delegate got the
honor Judge Harry Melvin Of Ala
media county was the other. Per
sOnally ] like Harry. so I will not saw
what I think He is an instance of
pleasing personality lending that per
sonality TO the use OF men who are far