Arizona republican., 1911-10-31
Joseph Pulitzer.

least important of New York news
 papers. When Pulitzer died, Sun
 day. the World had been for years
 one of the greatest newspapers print
 ed in any language.
 Great. however, as the monument
 is which Mir. Pulitzer built for him.
 self in the World, his larger achieve
 ment was the influence which he
 exerted upon the newspaper profess
 sion in all lands. He was the in
 ventor of yellow journalism" which
 is to his discredit. But vastly to his
 credit is the fact that he was the
 greatest apostle of publicity that
 mankind has known. It was his be-
 lief that the masses of the people.
 although often erring in judgment.
 are to be trusted always as to their
 good intentions; and that it is only
 when they are not fully informed of
 all the facts pertaining to any cues
 ton that they are unjust. Conse-
 quently, his motto was Publicity,
 publicity. publicity" He frequently
 proved to his own satisfaction the
 soundness of this principle. For ex-
 ample. when President Cleveland and
 his cabinet-all of them honest men
 but unversed in finances on big
 scale-were misled in 1893 by J. Pier
 pont Morgan and his associates into
 believing that the only way in which the government could avoid exposure
 of an alleged impaired credit was to permit Morgan to buy issues of government bonds on his own terms,
 Mir Pulitzer. after the first bond is sue, boldly opposed the administra- tion theory He insisted that, scarce as money appeared to be in the country. there were patriotic Ameri- cans in abundance who would glad ly buy bonds directly from the gov ernment if afforded an opportunity. He began and conducted such a cam paign of publicity in favor of his idea that it was taken up all over the country He announced that he himself would take a million dollars of the pending issue of bonds, and he telegraphed to hundreds of cities and towns inviting public expressions on the subject As a result of his per sistence, MT Cleveland was persu- aded to try the experiment of offer ing bonds to the public. and as every body knows. instead of going begging the bonds were many times over subscribed: and instead of having to take par or whereabouts, the gov ernment realized a premium averag- ing more than 10 per cent. Again, when MT. Cleveland's special message to congress on the Venezuelan bound ary question had so affronted the government of Great Britain that war between that country and the United States seemed imminent, Mir Pulitzer condemned the presi- dents trucculent tone. He made public through his own paper and every other available chan mel his horror of a war between the two great English speaking nations. He cabled to hundreds of prominent people in England, urging them to hold public meetings to protest against the stubborn attitude which had been taken by Lord Salisbury, who was then at the head of the British gov ernment. He made it clear to the masses of the English people that did not want war, and only asked Gas did President Cleve- land, in facD for an arbitration of the question involved. and it was due to the publicity he gave the matter here and abroad that arbitration was made practic able
 As an exponent of the journalism that does things" he made the New York World one of the most potent forces in the country. And withal, he was blind through most of the years of his achievements. The in- tense energy with which he applied himself in the early years of his ownership of the World to the build ing of that paper sapped his vitality and left him a nervous wreck. the loss of his sight being one of the penalties paid for his wonderful suc- cess.
 The history of his career as a whole is one of marvel. Coming to this country as a penniless emigrant boy from Hungary, and throughout his early manhood enduring such privations as would break the spirit of most men, his steady rise from the time that he found" himself as a reporter in St Louis will stand for a record to inspire every