Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-17
A PRECIOUS PAIR

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existence il is safe to say that
Il William r. Hearst has never
played a more hypocritical role than
that which he now holds in the fight
which he is attempting to wage
through the columns of his yellow
journals against Mr.. Roosevelt. AS
proof of this we wish to call atten-
ton to Mr. Hearst's utteranoes and
those of Mr.. Barnes, the leader of
the disreputable, grating New York
Republican machine which Hearst
pretends to oppose. In a long attack
upon Mr.. Roosevelt, cabled from Paris,
which appeared in the Hearst papers
of the 9TH instant, the hypocritical
master of those journals says: "I
CANNOT SYMPATHIZE WITH MR..
ROOSEVELTS RECKLESS. AND IN
DECENT ATTACK UPON THE FL
NANCIAL INTERESTS" He dwells
upon this theme throughout the whole
communication, and the burden of his
accusation is that Mr.. Roosevelt is
an enemy of business, that he brought
one panic upon the country, and is
taking steps now to produce another.
Now see what Mr.. Barnes says
about Mr.. Roosevelt in an interview
sent out by the Associated Press on
the 14th instant. In this interview he
criticises Mr.. Roosevelt as THE
MOST DANGEROUS FOE TO THE
WORLD OF BUSINESS AND LABOR
IN THE UNITED STATES" And he
adds, His ability to arouse the pas
slons of the mob is dreaded in every
quarter of the state, and every day
the menace of his political ascen-
dency to business and labor is more
appreciated. THOUGHTFUL MEN
ALL OVER THE STATE ARE
AROUSED TO THE REGRETTABLE
FACT THAT MR.. ROOSEVELT IS
TODAY THE MOST DANGEROUS
FOE TO THE WORLD OF BUsI-
NESS"
Thus we see the head of the Hearst
journals and servant of the Hartman
interests, whose services were secured
by financial accommodation, use ex-
actly the same ideas and almost the
same language to condemn Mr.. Roose-
welt as is used a few days later by
the head of the dirty Republican ma
chine in New York, which Roosevelt
is fi-hting, just as he is fighting every
other enemy of good government in
our country.
And what, we ask, do the readers OF
Hearst's papers think about being
deprived Of the news of Mr.. Roose-
the United States? In the course of
two weeks Mr.. Roosevelt in nearly a
hundred speeches which he delivered
preached more sound, vital political
doctrine applicable to the extreme ne
cessities of his country at the present
time than was ever before uttered by
any public man in the same length of
time in the history of the country.
Mr.. Hearst made it his business to
see that the accounts of these speeches
were kept out of the columns of his
papers, and denied to his readers the
opportunity of becoming acquainted
with the most important, most in
teresting and most vital thing which
has occurred in American politics for
years.
Newspapers that will deliberately
suppress the most important political
news of the day because it chances
to magnify the Importance of a man
whom the proprietor of these news
papers hates because he is obsessed
with small envy of abilities and ac-
tions which he knows he is incapable
of matching, are not newspapers in
any correct sense of the word. They
are, on the contrary. the trumpets of
their proprietor's gross egotism and
the medium through which he graf
ifes his contemplate envy of men
who by their talents and honesty have
won a position in public life and in
the trust and confidence of their fell
low citizens which he knows he can
never attain, and which he therefore
hates other men for holding.