The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1911-03-17
Worpan,s Publicity Trust

od at the growing independ-
- certain magazines which have
encs IN large calculations during Che
DULL ~ III years by their arraignment
lasL venalities of Wall Street, 4.
o. ~ Morgan, acting for the aris-
F leip oP money, has undertaken to
lo.-oi the various agencies through
cCI.h criticism OF high financiers Sc
M 1ree its widest distribution
cu TTitb fund Of many millions ap-
anriated for the purpose, he essays
Gerry out the ambitious Sugges-
nf former Congressman Joseph
III c;hIev, of Pennsylvania, who In a
Z. m John ID. Archibald, vice presi-
Sent Of the Standard Oil Company, al
Iooad to have been stolen from that
rornorations files and read by VIM
Randolph Hearst during the Presiden-
t;aI campaign Of 1908, suggested that
control of the principal news agen-
cins of the country be acquired 80 as
" sbut off the dissemination OF intel
iioance inimical to those whose rev
snnes are largely contingent upon the
unimpaired confidence of the Ameri-
IN PEOPLE. Wall Street already con-
trols the Paper Trust, and this week
strengthened its grip upon national
nubIishers by getting a predominating
influence in the largest periodical dis
+ributing agency in the United States.
through which 20O,0OO,000 copies OF
various publications are annually
nlaced with $4,000 different news deal
ers. between the Atlantic and Pacific
seaboards. The strategic advantage
n the money trust of this last con-
ouest may be inferred from the arbf-
trary refusal Of this agency to deliver
10 its customers $4,000 copies OF one
of the popular magazines, which con
tains in its February issue an attack
on Standard Oil. Unable to get their
publication in circulation, the pub
fishers have the undelivered copies.
which represent practically an entire
loss to them, now tied up in a store
house in New York.
Pursuant to the elaborate "Educa-
tional" campaign upon which it has
embarked 1.-THE interests within the
last six weeks have brought outright
several of the most widely circulated
Of popular magazines. In place of the
philippe on the abuse of corporation
privilege, we are in future to have
subtly written endorsements OF those
practices Of Wall Street which have
proved the most vulnerable objects Of
attack by its critics and have helped
to discredit it the country over. A
feature of each publication it con-
trolls will be financial department. /"
A part Of the carefully outlined plans
OF the trust many of the magazines
which are sponsored by THE Street.
have already inaugurated this depart
ment, in which investors are author
itively advised to place their money
in enterprises that are approved
mediums for exploitation in Wall
Street and warned against investments
that do not lend themselves to it's
necessities.
In its cherished ambition to sup
press honest criticism OF its short
and act as censor OF what Is
printed, Wall Street must ultimately
fail. However firmly it may fasten
its grip on the sources of information
to which the public look for enlight-
and the untrammeled express
sion of opinion, it will never succeed
in blindfolding the discriminating
reader, with it's sophistries and soft
soaped metaphor For every cham
pion OF popular opinion 1t succeeds in
there will come forward
2 new one to voice the sentiment OF
those who regard injustice, in what
ever guise it may masquerade as
neriting public condemnation. There
will be forum for the discussion of
popular grievances as long as the
world lasts. Wall Street might as
we'll try to check the ocean tides or
attempt TO arrest the revolution Of the
solar bodies as try to harness the
opinion Of free people and make 1t
suppliant to its needs.
Pro Bono Publico will have his say
until Gabriel blows his horn and the
last of us is called home to roost.