The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-11-03
PASSING OF JOSEPH PULITZER

publicist, who died on board his y9chg
in the harbor OF Charleston on Sur
day.
Mr.. Pulitzer amassed a fortune from
his newspapers, which he built into
great successes simply by reason Of
his ability to lead public sentiment
and his knack for surrounding him
self with men of genius in the making
Of newspapers. When he became The
owner Of the New York World in 1883,
then an insignificant and unpromising
sheet, he proceeded to give the coun-
try it's first sample of what came to
be called yellow journalism" As a
matter Of fact, yellow journalism"
has long since ceased to be a term Of
reproach and is now interpreted as
that style of journalism which is
just a bit ahead of its competitors in
enterprise and in providing facilities
for getting the news and issuing It to
the people in quicker and better shape
than had hitherto been deemed pos
sible Mr.. Pulitzer in a very few
months made The World felt as
newspaper factor and that paper has,
ever since, set the pace for up-t 1-dat6
metropolitan journalism. He was an
exemplar of the journalism that is
not content merely to record the
things other people do but that goes
forth to do things Of itself-things FOR
the benefit Of the people, of the mass
es of people, making them feel that,
through the agency of able writer's,
ponderous presses and wide circula,
ton, they have a Voice which speaks
in their behalf when they need sncn
Voice.
In innumerable ways, Mr. Pulitzsrs
paper exerted potent influence upon
affairs in New York city and, in the
course OF time, as its army OF readers
increased and the circle of it's ellen
tele wdened, upon affairs in the ma
ton, The World was the first paper
to use its reportoriaI force as a de-
tectiye corps to run down criminals
and this The World staff has done
repeatedly. when the regular police
and detective forces proved made
quate to the task. In effectine not
able public works, such as the omld-
ing of the pedestal for the Statue of
Liberty in New York harbor. The
World took the lead and achieved sue
cess. IN politics It always exercises
powerful influence on the side OF
practical reform and it is usually the
first paper to take up the cudgels in
behalf OF civic publication and the
punishment of guilty betrayers of pub
lie trusts. In all these momentous
movements, it was the brain Of Mr..
Pulitzer which dictated the policy and
ne was fortunate in having in his en-
ploy men Of resource and energy who
Knew how to carry on a crusade once
begun.
In the newspaper policy which di
rected The World, Mr. Pulitzer has
had but one formidable rival, and this
one came to his task with millions Il,
his command, inherited from sue
cessful father, which he could draw
upon illimitably to carry out his ideas.
On the other hand, the fortune of Mr..
Pulitzer had to be made by slow and
arduous degrees and was the result
of the policies he put into practice
rather than the means by which such
policies were made possible.
And this man who built up this
great newspaper property, operating
powerful papers IN New YORK ana 81.
Louis, came to this country a boy,
one of the horde of immigrants who
are drawn to our shores by the prom
Uses of liberty and the right to carve
ones own fortune from the opportun-
tiles here offered. In the humblest
fashion, he began life in the United
States. He was a private soldier in
the Civil war, a deckhand on ferry
boat, a common laborer on the leyee
hostler at the barracks, waiter
in cafe, a coachman and grave
digger. Not a very promising begin
ming, one would say, and offering lit
tie prospects of advancement, not to
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