The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-03-18
DAZZLING YelIowness.
From the Cedar Rapids Qa.) Evening
.Govotta.

From the Cedar Rapids Qa.) Evening
Gazette.
The Chicago Tribune, which modeStly
advertises itself as the worlds greatest
newspaper, should pull itself up short be-
fore it strikes the rocks and goes to pieces;
The last few months have ernonstrated
quite conclusively that the great chicago
newspaper yves a great deal OF It's
strength to a man who no longer IS one q
it's supports, namely James Kelley, now
editor of the Chicago Herald. n Irib-
une's supremacy was established, largely
because of its one time conservatlye tone
and its absolute de~pendability. Unless Its
management hauls in on the reins and APP
plies the brakes its ~degeneracy Will come
about through an exact reverse OIL those
factors.
The Tribune has been one Of the leaders
among the large newspapers Tor the en-
largement Of Uncle Sans army ana navy.
1t has resorted to any method that may
have come to hand for the urpos OF
bringing before its thousands of readers
the so-called need for armanene INC war
class with a vengeance and has stirred
I'D the mud IN the pool more than any
its way Uncle Sam soon would be parad-
ing before the world with a cutlass in one
hand, revolver in the other, a rife
strapped across his shoulders and a knife
between his teeth, in regular, old fash
toned brigand style. And, of course,
should he go on parade h equipped,
for which his preparedness would make
ready. But now the lingo newspaper Is
going still further. Not content with
shrieking for great navies, the Tribune IS
doing its best to bring about a war.
Through the instrumentality of Its edi-
torial writer's and its Washington CORE
sponde.ts 1T is predicting dire calamity,
strained relationships of serious character
between England and the United States
and Germany and the United states; 1T
goes even further and declares that there
now seems to every prospect OF war. and
one of its washington writer's explains
lust what our procedure VIII be. how the
Serman-Americans in this country will
align themselves, what position Uncle
sam will find himself in. land and sea, at
fhe opening of the impending hostilities,
taken all in all, the Tribune is making
one of the most inglorious descents from
nower and supremacy to jingoisn, yellow
Journalism, and absolute newspaper rot
that ever has marked the field anywhere.
It is making William Randolph Hearst's
newspapers read and look like Sunday
school quarternes.
II war does come between this country
and any European power Its Development
will not have come about without the able
assistance OF such factors as the Chicago
tribune under its present policies OF rule
Or ruin Apparently, II It can not have
It's way with regards to increasing our ar
mament, the Tribune is bent on proving
It's point by giving aid to seekers OF war
what 1T was talking about when 1t spoke
OF our unpreparedness,
Every time 1t sends out a lrst page sncn
as the one OF Thursday 1t shoots just that
much farther down the t~oboggan OF de-
Reneracy. Its complacency in designating
a severe shock, and the man who gave Il
that title will be the instigator thereof.
Mr.. Kelley Is making the Herald what the
Tribune used to be.