New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-11-17

To one who has lived all his life in
cities, to one who has spent most OF
his days and nights with the men who
write the great daily papers OF the
cities, it is perfectly evident that ninety
out of one hundred editorial writer's
on the press today are men who are in
intellectual and sympathetic revolt
against present-day conditions. You
will find the average editorial writer
a socialist, and as for the reporter, he
is most likely to be an anarchist. The
reason of this is plain enough. The
men who make the newspapers are
behind the scenes they see the work
ings of the wires they note the dema-
gogy of politicians, they are familiar
with the ramifcations by which the
public-service corporations control
the old parties down to the smallest
offices, and even at times finance re-
form movements, which always stop
at the election of some respectable
fgurehead or dummy, but never pro-
coed to any attack upon the funda-
mental evils of our social and econo-
mic system.
1t is my firm belief that were it not
for the capitalists at the head of the
great daily newspapers, if it we're
possible for the men who write the
news and the editorials of all the
newspapers in the United States, to
take absolute charge of their publ
cations and print the news exactly as
they see it, and write their views ex-
actly as they feel them, for a space of
three days, there would be such re-
volution in the United States of
America as would put that of France
to shame. The only possible reason
why this might not occur is that the
editorial writer's and reporters actual
ly believe in nothing-not even in the
various remedies, rational or Wild
eyed, which occasionally, in private,
they proclaim.
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Furthermore, when we look at the
great newspapers, we observe another
laughable feature in the manner in
which they work upon the general pub
lie, the most elaborate confidence
game known in the history of America.
We read in the editorial columns, here
and there, the most violent denunci-
alton and scathing derision of the
wealthy and fashionable, but we turn
to the news column and find this same
newspaper catering slavishly, in gor-
geous description and striking illus
tration, to all the basest vanity of the
wealthy, and to the curiosity OF the
poor. We are told what the million
aire eats for breakfast, dinner and
supper, and whether he prefers night
shirts or pajamas.
We see illustrated the stockings and
the lingerie of the golden brides of
foreign noble Adventures, and we are
treated to such d sickening celebra-
ton of wealth as is not to be found in
any other country on the globe. TO
those of us who are, as we say, "in
the know" this is deliberate policy.
The great newspapers play to the
masses for circulation, and then turn
around and coddle the classes for ad
vertising.
The most violently socialistic and
anarchistic editorials are found in the
papers that cater most to the glorifi-
cation of the pleasures and possess
sions of the extremely wealthy; but,
let there impend in the community in
which any of these sensational papers
is printed, any proposal for the regu-
latien or the destruction of the system
which produces our most offensive