Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-27
SUBLIMATED HYPOCRISY

wv chain of Hearst's newspapers
announce "a nation wide cam
paign against the moving prize fight
pictures'-a belated play to the unso-
phisticated that is worthy Of the arch
| hypocrites of the newspaper profess
sion. The uniformed may be de-
ceived by this latest pose of a Uriah
Heep, but to those who know of the
| conduct of the Hearst sheets in New
York, Boston, Chicago and elsewhere
It can bring only fresh disgust and
contempt.
A very large share of the revenue
of Hearst's New York Journal is de-
rived from the advertisements of Old
| Doctor Grindle and a host of his kind
of specialists whose text a respectable
newspaper cannot print. American
daily journalism does not offer a
parallel to the columns Of this kind Of
filthy matter the Journal spreads out
before the adult and youth.
Even more hypocritlcal is the con-
duct of the Hearst papers in the mat
ter of race track gambling which in
came such a scandal that the gov
ernor made it his chief issue. Daily
the Hearst sheets for years fostered
the practice of gambling and helped to
support the policy shops and race
track thugs by printing tips" on the
races, while occasionally throwing
sop to the moral sentiment of the COM
munity in the form of a Brisbane edi-
torial Illuminating against the great
evil.
Scandals of royalty and of the rotten
element that pose as high society, spe-
cialization of pugilitic news, stories of
crime of all degrees have for long
given Hearst newspapers a pre-emi-
nence that mono others cared to chal
lenge; and this is the source which
emanates a nation wide movement in
behalf of the youth"-a pretense of
decency that we'll follows Hamlet's ad-
vice to his wretched mother, Assume
virtue if you have it not"
1t was to such fawners upon virtue
and panderers to the most vicious of
human sins that the poet Spenser ad-
dressed himself in the lines:
Thereto when needed she could weep and
pray;
And when she listed she could fawne and
fatter,
Now smiling smoothly. like to sommer's
day.
Now glooming sadly so TO cloke her matter
Yet were her words but wynd. and all her
tears but water.
It may be recalled that for several
days before the recent prize fight
Hearst's papers gave up not only their
first but many succeeding pages to
the brutal affair as the most important
news of the day, which was gathered
for them by special writer's sent to the
ringside, and that later they pub
lshed in all their brutal realism large
photographs of the Reno disgrace and
boasted of the special train hired to
bring them on for publication.
| 1t may also be recalled that, on the
day of the fight, the Examiner of this
city had two young men stripped on
an elevated platform in front of its
office, reproducing in pantomime the
blows delivered by the negro and white
"hope of the race" in the Nevada ring.
All the boys and girls of Los Angeles
whom the Hearst paper IS now hypo-
critically pretending to shield, were in
vited to come down and see the spec
tacle.
What is the reason for this pulling
cry to the authorities? Well, notoriety
advertising, revenge. There is always
something behind a Hearst chain cam
paign. In New York Mayor Gaynor has
permitted the fight pictures to be
shown because he cannot lawfully pre-
vent it. the board of aldermen having
taken no action. Hearst recently
duarreled with Gaynor and hates him
with a malevolence that will not let
up until Gaynor is out of the political
| path.
When the devil quotes scripture there
is always a reason. When Hearsts
papers, that deal in tips for gamblers,
pander to men diseased from vice, re-
tail scandal, and boast of their lead
in pugilistic news, start a campaign
for righteousness, look for the motive.