New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-01-27

ries as the kind Of tales that often APP
pear in the heart of a campaign. Such
things ought not to be printed, but
they have been printed, many Of them
much worse than these, in every pres
dental canvass almost in our history.
At their best or worst they are polit-
ical stories and never would be thought
Of or heard of again unless thus called
to public attention. In the heat of
campaign we are all liable to lose our
heads, editors as well as Others This
Is the common sense view of the case
and the one held by the sane, temper
ate American people as a whole. And
when it is once realized that there is
serious attempt to put blind old in
valid in Jail because of campaign
story he never saw or heard of, and
this under law more than eighty
years old, the public will take the true
measure Of the case. 1t will serve a
good purpose, however, if it discour-
ages the publishing of these reckless
fakes during campaigns.
Man of Wide Information.
AS for Joseph Pulitzer, the public
knows little about him, except that he
has founded new kind of Journalism,
which many people regard as bad; that
he endowed a college of journalism,
| which most newspaper men regard as
! joke; that he is a man of great in
tellectual power, of keen mind, wide
| information and retentive memory, and
| that he spends much of his time in Eu-
| rope. But that is only small part of
Pulitzer. Like most notable men, he is
ties, amassed fortune, and just at
the time he was in position to enjoy
life fate struck out his sight and tore
| to pieces his nerves, so that he had no
capacity for enjoyment left. Somebody
has said that the great work of the
world has been done by invalids, and
| if that be true Pulitzer is explained.
suspect, however, that, like all other
sweeping statements, the idea that the
race has been carried forward by sick
people is about two-thirds phrasemak-
ing to one-third truth.
Another anomaly Of Pulitzer is that
while he prints very noisy colored sup
plements he cannot himself stand
noise. A London paper told with great
glee how the American editor took an
English house and was disturbed first
by bugler and then by peacock.
Pulitzer sent one Of his men to buy of
both bugler and bird, but without sue
cess. Then he moved.
Born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1S47,
Mr.. Pulitzer came to the United
States in 1864, Immediately enlisted in
the Union army and served till the end
Of the war. His parents were well to
do and had educated him by private
tutor, but the father lost all the prop
erty, and the boy was practically pen,
| niless when landing in New York. He
slept more than one night in the pub.
lie parks. After the war he went to
St. Louis and became reporter on a
German paper, rising ultimately to the
position of managing editor and part
proprietor. He was a member of the
legislature and became a spellbindel
of parts, speaking in English and Ger
man with equal facility. He had beer
a supporter of Carl Schurz and Joined
the Greeley movement in 1872, going
as delegate to the Liberal Repub
lican convention at Cincinnati. After
that he was Democrat.
Founded New Journalistic School
In 1873 Mr.. Pulitzer bought some
afternoon papers in ST. Louis and com
bined them in the Post-Dispatch
which was successful from the start
In 1883 he took over the New Yorl
World, a rundown paper Of littl
standing, and brought it to the from
in the same brilliant and sensational
manner. It is but just to say that 10
seph Pulitzer is the founder Of tn
L new school of Journalism usual
known as yellow, of which William R
. Hearst is later and more glaring dis
It ciple.
= In addition to his newspaper tr
: umphs, Pulitzer was elected to cor
!, gress, but resigned after few month
!, owing to broken health. It was a
about this time he lost his sight an
!
l. wreck Since then he has travele
d about the world or has lived at one Q
IS his many homes, his one desire bein
: to flee from the noise maker. Unit
1t within few years at least he kept |
close touch with his papers, sendin
them unsigned cablegrams on all sort
Of subjects and bringing them up
= his own views of great questions an
. policies With his corps of secretarie
= who read him papers, letters and book
: of French, German or English liter;
ture each day, he kept in touch wit
: the world from which his blindnes
= isolated him. These secretaries wei
= his eyes and hands, The mind that
: rected all was his own.
" Pulitzer has has sent scores of POI
young men to college and gave $1,OO(
: 900 to found a school Of Journalism
Columbia university, with the promi