New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-11
What the Public Owes Hearst

"C;tizens who read attacks on Hearst
owner of chain of big and honest news
naners throughout the United States
should realize what the country owes I"
him. SAWS Mr.. Brisbane's washington
Times"
Mr. Brisbane speaks as Daniel come
~ Judgment. 1t is imperative at this
time when Judge Hylan is running as the
Hearst-Murphy candidate for Mayor OIL
this city. that the public should realize
What Il owes to Hearst The debt Is a
b;o one. extending back for many years.
1t was not paid by his defeat when he ran
n, Mavor. nor his defeat when ne ran
for Governor. If it were paid in fuil II
would sweep from Hearst every vestige
Of influence in public affairs, now and 1or-
ever.
Judge Hylan owes his nomination 70
Hearst The public realizes that clearly
enough. Hearst, Hylan and the hohen.
2o,Ierns" is a summary Of the issues OF
this municipal campaign which cannot be
controvsrted or set aside. The public owes
the injection of the loyalty issue into the
contest for Mayor to Hearst. But that Is
not all.
"Tbe malignant falsehoods Of these jour
nails. read by the immigrant IN his new
home where none can answer them' are
making him hate the people who have
welcomed him to liberty and prosperity, TO
abundant employment, to ample wages 70
education for his children, TO indepen-
6ence for his manhood such as he has never
known before" said Elihu Root in 1906,
when, by the authority of President Roose-
Welt he expressed a verdict on hearst
which held his papers responsible for In
flaming the mind of the murderer Of Presi-
dent Mckinley This the public owes to
Hearst. But that is not all.
Hearst has made it his stock in trade
10 flaw corporations" and trusts In
his campaigns and in his newspapers he
has attacked them. 1t remained for Mr.
Hughes in 1906 to tear the mask from this
duplicity by disclosing that Mr.. Hearst s
own business enterprises were conducted
in the most approved corporation fashion
nv the "Star Company" incorporated in
New Jersey, "home of the trusts with
charter broad enough TO permit 1t TO
transact most kinds of business except
banking-the regulation corporation blan-
ket charter. This form of organization
served TO facilitate tax lodging on prof
table properties and 70 discourage suits
for libel. The Hearst corporations agent
in New Jersey was the Corporation Trust
Company, agent Of hundreds of other cor
pora,ions Of the class which Hearst was
attacking. This duplicity the public owes
70 Hearst But that Is not all.
The campaign of 1906, which disclosed
50 much about this citizen, disclosed also
the fact that Asiatics, Chinese and Jap
anese, were employed on the Hearst estate
in California, although white labor was
at that time obtanable. Hearst merely
denied that he personally employed the
yellow men or benefited by their employ
ment. This is the same Hearst who has
always posed as the benefactor, the patron
H. the defender Of the workingman. This
u working both sides Of the street the public
y owes TO Hearst But that is not all.
Hearst was twice elected to Congress, by
and with the consent Of Tammany Hall
Of which Charles T. Murphy was part and
marcel. In 1905 he devoted his time tc
attacking Murphy as a candidate for Sing
Sing and the lock step, printing Murphy's
picture with striped prison clothes until
threats Of legal action cooled his ardor
In 1906, by manipulation which Tom
Grady, surely not squeamish or sanity
described "a "the dirtieS. days work oi
nv life" Hearst became the Democratic
candidate for Governor of this State, rely
ing on that same Murphy's political sup
port for the election, as he had for the
nomination. To-day Hearst and Murphy
whom once he thought worthy of states
prison. are one in their aim to foist or
this city for its Chief Executive an un
known man who dares not say word
about his political views which is not writ
ten out for him.
All this the public owes Hearst-Heats'
the shammer, Hearst the demagogue
Hearst the political libertine, Hearst the
beneficiary of corporation law. These
are only few of the high spots in his
checkered career They represent only
few of the more important items in the
public's account with him. The latest item
the public has not forgotten-his covert
attacks on this country, his direct attacks
on this country's allies, his declarations
that Germany, the nations enemy, cannot
30 defeated and is steadily growing
s.roroer-the kind of outgivings which