Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-04-02
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
A MELLOW JOURNAL.

A YELLOW JOURNAL.
The more we see of that dear
old contemporary-the Congressional
Record-the more we are constrained
not only TO classify it as a yellow
journal but to place it right at the
forefront of the rainbow press. It is
currently supposed that the Record
is a dry. staid old-lady sheet, devoid
of spice or life or any semblance of
yariety-the qualifications that go to
make modern unofficial journal in
teresting to readers. But how differ
ent is the Record of reality! True,
its typographical makeup is devoid
of black face type and borders, and
there's no big, black, glaring head
lines, or cuts, or patent medicine adj
vertisements, or anything of that
kind-but, my! how the old sheet does
pervert the truth. yellow journals al
ways have a fabric of truth at least
for the stories they print which have
given them that name, but in the Con-
gressional Record stories are made
out of the whole cloth-with each
bolt charged 10 the government-en-
tirely for the sake of the home con-
sumption of some budding orator of
the lower house The system works
in this way:
Hon. Mr.. Bunk of Kansasota is just
winding up his first term as congress-
man from the Nth district. He has
done nothing of very spectacular
nature since his arrival in Washing
ton a few years hence. The public
building he asked for at the request
of his native town, Kiwash, has been
turned down. He failed to get through
the nomination for the post of vice
consul at Punjow Of old Major Bush
wah. Even the garden seed he man,
aged to send back to the honest peas
antry of the vicinity of Kiwash failed
to sprout. Verify, the Hon. Mr.. Bunk
is in s'ye in bad class" with his constit
uency, and from the prairies he re
ceives the news that an incipient re
volt IL brewing against him and his
nomination. He hears that his con
stituents are greatly dissatisfied tha
he has not accomplished anything o
note for them, and it is whispered
that Hon. Mr.. Punk is being groome'
to make the forthcoming race agains
him.
He throws something that is SUP
posed to resemble what has beei
termed conniption fit and awake
to the fact that in order to restor
himself in the favor of his eonstituer
cv he must do something. He think
to make a speech or two that VII
startle the nation (perhaps he na
the ability and then the Daily x
wash Howl would ring in praise o
his oratoricaI effort. He consnlts tn
Aoor leader. or whoever has charg
Of the distribution of the time on tn
measure pending, and he is told tina
there is nothing stirring in the ran
sunckuous speech line from the Hor
M. Bunk. The debate has been lin
tied to two minutes.
Get up and read the opening par'
graph of your speech and then as
permission to have your remarks e1
tended to the Record" suggests tn
big muck-a-muck.
And there being no other way gu
of II. he adopts the suggestion II
reads rev NoIas aAN
having secured the desired permi'
sion. Maybe he wants TO catch hi
constituents comm and goin', and
so he viii read the opening para
eraphs of three speeches and get nj
xemarks extended TO the Record. on
of hisspeeches may deal with the un
Just and cruel conditions OF life ina
are THROWN about the poor 81 da!
brick mason. Another may appea
for protection for the needy and eve
prosecuted farmer who owns a oi'
red eo.derI. still another may b