The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1924-05-23
or fairness of the fine, so much as
it is the city needs the money
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of city authorities to sleuthing around
and catching some poor devil with a
mouthful of moon" and mere to a
better collection of garbage, cleaning
and filling holes in streets, forcing
the railroad companies to drop few
wagon loads of dirt into the holes at
the various crossings so that one
wouldn't have to take their lives in
their own hands every time they
crossed the tracks in an automobile
and few other things, would be ap-
preciated by many of our citizens.
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CONTROL OF THE PRESS
Among other valuable and impor.
tant information which the American
citizens are getting as a result of the
United States investigation of the
Teapot Dome oil scandal, is that re.
lating to the controlled press of this
country.
In the hurry of modern life most
people allow the newspapers to dc
their thinking for them. We have to
rely largely on the newspapers fol-
the facts and events happening every
day Our decisions and our actions
politically, economically and in every
other way, rest on the "facts" the
press gives US. If the press, there
fore, is unrelitble or biased-if the
press is controlled and deliberately
misleads the people-we can see what
grave results follow. Evidence is at
hand recently that the press of this
country deliberately suppresses facts
and has played up other facts, and in
this way misleads the people. Let us
give some evidence of this for your
thought. On the second day of March,
1921, just two days before the pres
ent administration took charge of the
United States government, "The New
Republic" printed leading editorial
which proved prophetic and began as
follows:
Apparently Mr.. Harding's cabinet
is mixture of oil and water. One
man, Mr.. Hughes, and perhaps two
others, represent his conscience; a
sense of what is expected of the man
who is president. The others repre-.
sent his cronies, or what he would
call his involvements. But for Mr.
Hughes, Mr. Hoover if he Joins, and
perhaps one other, the Harding cabinet
| is the perfect product of exactly those
men who drove Roosevelt to rebellion
in 1912. Men like Mr.. H. NJ Daugh.
erty and Senator A. b. Fall are un.
speakably bad appointments. They are
| full blown specimens of the manipu.
lating politician who serves private
and predatory interests. And accord.
ing to the information at present
available they are to operate in the
two departments of the government
Justice and the interior-that are most
rich in spoils. To the tender mercies
of Mr.. Fall, Mr.. Harding proposes to
entrust the national domain; tC
Daugherty he proposes to hand over
the enormous and intricate powers, the
immense influence and the huge pat.
ronage, of the Attorney Generals
office. If he adheres to that inten-
ton he will have made a mockery of
the republican promises about the
appointment of able men,
1t is interesting to read this edi-
torial, in the light of recent disGos-
ures. Now the fact is that "The New
Republic" was not shrewder or more
knowing than any other good news
paper, but do you recall reading in
any daily paper at that time any
criticism of either Fall or Daugherty
On the contrary, you read as rule
laudatory statements hailing the great
cabinet of the "best minds" which
was to bring the country back to a
safe and sane administration.
We We're to have government now
the press told US, which was safe and
sane; that is, labor was to be put in
it's place, although they did not say
this; also we were to have more
business in government, and less gov
ernment in business" N
The American people should not be
surprised at the disclosures which are
now taking place. Big business, of
the most corrupt kind, has had it's
full swing and very little interfer-
ence with it on the part of the gov
arprnant and aSpacial1v from tho at