New Mexico state record., 1918-06-21

HERALD REFUSES
HEARST'S MONEY
(Albuquerque Herald)


Last week The Herald received
from an advertising agency in Los
Angeles an order for a series of ad-
vertisements for the Los Angeles
Examiner, one of the Hearst news
papers. The Herald declined to ac-
cept these advertisements. 1t was as
sumed they were in connection with
the recent request of the New Mex
ico State Council OF Defense, that
news and magazine dealers in New
Mexico cease handling the Hearst
publications.
! The Herald does not know che
specific grounds upon which the
Council of Defense issued its request.
/ Our only reference to the matter
was to give the news that such a re-
quest had been made 1t seemed to
us that any action of the kind prop
erly belonged with the United States
Postal authorities.
Hearst Money Not Wanted
The Herald refused the Hearst ad-
vertising on the general ground that
we want no Hearst money.
Hearst has built up a great busi-
ness and has amassed great for
tune by capitalizing ignorance; by
playing upon superstition and low
passion; by appealing persistently to
the mob spirit, and by stirring up
class hatred and class warfare which
has set American against American.
His publications, with their social
istic -anarchistic preachments have
laid the ground work for Bolshevism
in the United States and have had
their insidious influence in paving
the way for the /. w. w. The in
fluence of these publications has
been unsound in economic thought,
vicious in social theory; destructive
to national unity and true patriotism.
Policy Eternally Wrong
Whatever Hearst's attitude toward
the war, before the United States
was engaged. and whatever his
attitude now. the policy of his pub
locations through many years has
been such that money earned by
SUCH a policy does not appeal to U.S.
Since one of the Hearst advertise
ments has appeared in Albuquer-
que, and since reading it, we are
doubly satisfied with the justice of
the Hera1d's position in refusing to
accept the business.
This advertisement is an attack by
William Randolph Hearst upon the
canism of Theodore Roosevelt. Shades
of George Washington, think of
it! Think of Hearst, the perpetual
candidate, the perpetual profiteer at
the expense of the credulous, the
superstitious, the poor, the ignor-
ant; think of Hearst assailing the
loyalty of Roosevelt Think of Hearst
charging Roosevelt with propa-
ganda for selfish endsi Hearst. Of
all menl
Later the Herald received from
the same advertising agency 4 "free
reading notice" in which United
States Senator Henry F. Ashurst of
Arizona goes on record in defense
of the Hearst publications, on the
ground that "Mr. Hearst has pur-
chased hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of Liberty bonds, has
scores of thousands of
dollars for the Red Cross"
Suspicious Of Money Patriotism
This adds further to our satisfac-
ton that the Herald refused the
Hearst advertising copy. There is
fundamentally wrong with
a man who offers Liberty bond pur-
chases and Red Cross subscriptions
as proof of patriotism. Mr.. Hearst
has abundant money. He has made
It from the people; by exploiting ig-
norance and class hatreds and By
social unrest His publica-
lions have added immeasurably to
the dangers of his country in the
present situation, by killing patriot
SIN and love of country and unsel-
Iish loyalty at home. Why shouldn't
he give freely from his riches to the
Red Cross and buy literally of Lib
.rty bondsi The average loyal Amer
can does both to = the extent Of
,is means end says nothing sbost