New-York tribune., 1919-03-10
Afflicted With Editorial
Blindness in Opposing
Prohibition, He Asserts
Hands Hearst Bouquet
Protests Against ''Mendaci-
Gus Policy of Falsehood''
on Amendment Action

Most Of the New York newspapers
were attacked yesterday by William
H. Anderson, state superintendent of
the AntiSaloon League, in an address
at the West Side Y. NJ c.. A. They
were afflicted, he asserted, with "edi-
torial blindness" and guilty of "men-
dacious editorial policy of falsehood."
His remarks, in part, follow:
Prohibition is peculiarly American.
1t typiies the American spirit which
freed Cuba and assumed the burden
Of looking after the Philippines. 1t is
a declaration of independence against
Old World handicaps and outgrown
civilization. 1t is the American will
ingncss to sacrifice for the common
good. We are willing to help raise
those who come from other countries
to the American level, but we will not
consent that they drag America down
to their level.
"New York City has not been noted
for progressiveness in behalf of hu-
man rights. The draft riots during
the Civil War were in New York,
which now threatens to try to nullity
the prohibition amendment.
Blames Papers if Riots Follow
"lf there are disorder and riot in New
York under prohibition the response
bilty will rest upon the majority of
newspapers of this city. The chief Of
these offenders against truthfulness
and law and order is THE New York
World" The man who made it a
great newspaper was q Hungarian Jew,
but he had too much fairness, too much
sense Of craftsmanship, too much re-
gard for truth and too much intelli-
gence to have acted as that paper is
now doing, claiming to be patriotic,
but in fact helping the German brew
ers, who were active allies of the Cen
trail Powers during the recent war, to
regain dominance in America The
policy of The New York World to-day
indicates in the management either
hydrophobic monomania or throw
back TO an Oriental civilization that
the American people had vetoed.
After the slip made by The New
York Times with respect to the Aus
trian peace overrures, which showed
that blood is thicker than water, it is
small wonder that IL cannot compre-
prohibition. THE New York Herald
has been cursed by a combination of
European ownership and local brewery
influence through the free ice route.
Has Praise for Hearst
"The New York Tribune, snug rep
rescntatlve of big corporate interests,
has been endeavoring to placate labor
by playing up the no beer, no work
tat f-+
tlon which will cndanger the money in
tcrcsts that it seeks to protect and at
the same time betray the labor inter
ests that it seeks to cajole.
"The Tribune and other enemies of
William Randolph Hearst have appar-
entity rescued from the dump and
donned the beer and wine garments
discarded by MIR. Hearst, who gives in
dication of being an infinitely better
American on the prohibition question
than his journalistic Knockers The
greatest fairness and clcarncss of COM
prehension have been exhibited by the
broadway mouthpiecc, The Morning
Telegraph which has never made any
pretension to gloss over it's opposition
to prohibition and the Anti Saloon
League.
"Thc only morning paper in New
" n eiltV uaS Deen consistently IN
favor Of prohibition is The Sum- which
is now doing some constructive work to
show that prohibition will not ruin the
city. The Evening Sun has likewise
been moderately fair. The Mail,' since
it was taken out of the hands of the
Germans, has favored prohibition, but
has not worked much at it,
with the exceptions named, 'Thc
New York Evening Post is about the
only well known New York paper that