The New York herald., 1922-08-16
On the Wrong Tack.

~ On tne wrong AdSh.
Our contemporary the World is
strong, able newspaper. In its good
impulses it is capable of splendid SER
vices to the community and the coun-
try. But when it falls into partisan
bitterness, the kind that character
ICED the American newspapers half
"a century ago, it frequently departs
from the ethics of good journalism.
81 In its sensational article on Mon
day covering more than two pages on
the alleged sugar conspiracy our
neighbor the World had bad attack
of hysteria. No more sensational pres
eentation of a case has appeared in
any newspaper worth while since the
.yellowest of yellow journalism took
.son faded hue.
Sss When partisan purpose can lead
n the WorId to attempt to discredit the
Pre- fdent of the United States in con-
nection with an alleged undertaking
of sugar conspirators" and without
"a foundation of fact on which to do so
The World is to be commended for
its fight against a gouging tariff on
sesugar, on wool or on anything else.
In this respect it is doing precisely
what THE New YORK HERALD has done
and still is doing To the World,
however, this is the natural thing to
do with its free trade heritage, since
modified to tariff for revenue only.
THE NEW York HERALD approaches
the matter from another angle, as it
stands distinctly and emphatically
for the protection OF American labor,
American industries, American pro-
ducers. But neither the World nor any
other newspaper feels more bitterly
toward Enor is more ready to con-
denim wanton gouging tariff schedules
than this newspaper; that which
would gouge tribute out OF the great
American consuming public has bits
bitter condemnation.
= The World in its hysterical attack
rof Monday on the authority of one
RuBrNo of Cuba assails the integrity
) of Senator SMoor and Secretary
HOOVER and General CRowDER, and
even seeks to link the President of
the United States with the alleged
conspiracy.
Senator SMooT has spoken for him
self. Secretary HOOVER, who now
stands just as high in the public
estimation as he stood when he was
the Worlds candidate for President.
has spoken for himself. General
iCRowDER has spoken for himself. All
Of these have Indignantly denied any
iinpropriety in this matter.
But it is not likely that the Presi-
dent of the United States will lower
tho dignity of his great Office to reply
"A to the insinuation OF the World when
II says that the unsupported testi-
1srmony of its informant links Presi-
dent HARDfNG with the Smoot scheme
Ia make sugar scarce and its price
higher"
~ To undertake to discredit the
President Of the United States at a
:. time when the prestige of the Chief
Executive is so important an element
In the solution OF grave national
problems goes beyond the latitude Of
political antagonism. The World
cannot settle the great strikes which
now menace the country. THE NEW
York HERALD cannot settle them.
~ Io..
individual settle them. But the
President can marshal the whole force
of the nation to settle them. And yet.
at the moment when Mr.. HARDING is
directing all of his energy and tact
againS the strike problems, the
B World broadcasts the intimation that
he Is committed to the beet sugar in
- terests that would impose a wicked
burden on our 110. 900, 900 Of people.
The World, too is going far out OF
its way to picture Mr. HARDING, Presi-
dent Of the United States, as a weak
ling and a bungler. II is using It's
i great energy and its great force to
spread before the country this pic
ture OF the Chief Executive which in
the very nature Of the case will in
spire riotous lawbreakers to hold the
President of the United States in dis
respect.
-. II this is good patriotism, II this Is
Sgood journalism, IL this is sound,
Worth while service to the country
xfn these days Of peril, The NEW
YORK HERALD is sadly mistaken in It's
conception Of the true functions of a
gvcat newspaper.