New-York tribune., 1918-05-25

WiICiuS OF clCner Mr. hearst or Mr.
Roosevelt that challenges his official
attention. He ought to be removed
from Office for coupling their names
together.
Mr.. Hearst says there is a con-
spiracy against him and his bust
ness, and that The Tribune is at the
head of it. What is Mr.. Hearst's
business?
On November 2, 1906, Mr.. Root,
speaking for President Roosevelt,
stated Mr.. Hcarst's business in the
following words:
with his great wealth, with his
great newspapers, with his army of
paid agents, he has been day by day
and year by year sowing the seeds
of dissension and strife and hatred
throughout our land. What
has he not assailed with vile and
fragrant epithets? What branch of
our government has he not taught
his readers to believe a corrupt
agency of oppression? ?"
And Mr.. Root quoted from Hearst's
business, among many other state
ments, that it had circulated, these:
at is the sad duty of The Jour
nal to announce to the people of the
United States that their President,
William Mckinley, has deliberately
tricked Congress and the country"
"McKinley and the Wall Street
particle Of national honor and dig
nifty"
"Joseph II. Choatc is servile lick
spittle of corporations"
He said of Thomas B. Reed, and
over his own signature:
"You divide McKinley's infamy
with him and so make his road the
easier; by the same token you have
become a toad to the public eye;
you grow. to be looked upon as a
thing loathsome; your name becomes
kissing and a reproach and your
deeds stencil to the nostrils of
man."
Of Grover Cleveland, twice Presi-
dent Of the United States, this mans
business said:
He is no more, no less, than liv-
ing, breathing crime in breeches."
Of Theodore Roosevelt Hearst's
business said:
"He has sold himself to the devil
and will live up to his bargain"
Mr.. Root said that once this meth
cd Of incendiary abuse had wrought
out it's natural consequence in the
murder of Mckinley, for Hearst's
business printed and circulated these
things:
mckinley makes an international
cur of his country; he is an abject,
weak, futile, incompetent poltroon."
"The bullet that pierced Goebel's
chest
Cannot be found in all the West.
Good reason, it is speeding here
To stretch Mckinley on his BIER
That was before Czolgosz shot
Mckinley. Then Hearst's business
said:
"Institutions, like men, will last
until they die, and if bad institu-
tions and bad men can be got rid of
only, by killing, then the killing must
be DONE"
Mr.. Hearst's answer to Mr.. Roots
statement of Hearst's business, if I
remember correctly, was that Mr..
Root had on one occasion appeared in
court for a man who was accused
and thereafter convicted of grand
larceny, and that Mr.. Roosevelt stood
by the Steel Trust, and now of YOU,
The Tribune, the only force that has
ever pressed Hearst to his knees, he
says that you are "small and lonely
Now, Mr.. Editor, do not pretend
to be Major Mckinley or Colonel
Roosevelt, or Mr.. Root, or Mr.. Choate
Or The Tribune. I may presently
ascertain from Mr.. Hearst that he
thinks am the merest insect. with
instincts utterly reprehensible. But
there is no American who does not
know that when an American jury
has convicted Rose Pastor Stokes OF
disloyalty for saying, "No govern.
ment which is for the profiteers car
also be for the people, and l am fol
the people, while the government is
for the profiteers," there is M
American, elephant or insect, who
does not know that when she gets ur
on June l to receive her sentence
from Judge Van Valkenburgh Hears,
and his business ought to be standing
right there at her side, and that fo]
every day she gets he ought to get {
year, and for every dollar she has t,
pay his business ought to pay
million.
LEMUEL ELY QUIGG.
III Elmira Councilman, points out
ID fLaws I'm Hearst's explanation of