The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-17
REMEMBER THE MAINE
(By Fred Edwards)

(By Fred Edwards)
 CalendarO. "But if we HalI-" BertucciO. "They never fall who
 die
 In Q great cause: the block may
 soak their gore:
 Their heads may sodden in the
 sun; their limbs
 Be strung to city gates and castle
 walls
 But still their spirit walks abroad.
 Tho years
 Elapse, and others share as dark Q
 doom,
 They but augment the deep and
 sweeping thoughts
 Which OverpOwer all others, and
 conduct
 Tho world at last to Freedom.
 -Byron's Doge of Venice.
 TO GIVE CRITICS THE LIE
 Tn these articles 1t is not the intent of the writer to write a history of the years 1896-97 but to show by actual facts that corl- gress or Mckinley were not ac. tuAted by what those critics claim 1. e., that we free Cuba because the sugar trust wanted change 1n the duty on raw sugar, or fur nished the money.
 Yellow Journalism Saved Cuba
 Or that the Maine was destroyed by an act of God. Or that the newspapers furnished the war. But they did furnish the facts that So reused public opinion that congress was forced to act. The Spanish American war demonstrated that 1t takes a long while to rouse the American people to action, but once they do get upon their hind legs they. mean business.
 The newspapers did tell through their correspondents six months be- fore there was any talk of war, how Spanish officers feasted in full view of men, women and children dying of starvation. Of how piteous ap- peals for food were met with Saber tnrlsts. They published pictures of these emaciated people. They told what kind of a tyrant General Weyler "the Butcher" was They aroused the public until groups of men gathered on the streets and talked with horror of the Spanish atrocities in Cuba. If the truth had never before been known as to what was going on in Cuban 1ungies, for the first. time 1t was told by the New York Journal, The New York World and The Her. aid. It might be called "Yellow Jolirnalism," because 1t hurt, truth always does, and if 1t had been all 1t was said 1t was, it would still have been the only force that could have freed an enslaved people; and end- ed Q destructive, cruel and needless war, . war that had already cost Spain the lives of 80,000 of her regular troops, and an investment of 950O0,0O0, of American capital, that was going up in smoke in burning plantations. It has been said that if the stories of the American newspaper reporters in Cuba before and during the Spanish American war were printed, they would make Q tremendously Rb- sorbing book, and that's true. How Yellow Journalism Was Born Once when Charles Dana, the creator of the New York Sun was still alove, Q committee of ministers went to see him and complained he was handling too many news ar- ticles without gloves; news which were better left imprinted. Dana listened for a while until they were done, then he turnd on his visitors and said:
 ''Whatever God Almighty permits to happen, is fit to print in The Sun. I believe that and I'm going to print and keep on printing The Sun along such lines. Good day gentlemenl"
 When Joseph Pulitzer was build ing up the New York World, he told his editor-in-chief, Colonel Pohn A. Cockreli, that tho World was not printing the news the peo- rle wanted, that they wanted more than they were getting, so the World gave it's readers what they wanted. That is how yellow jour- nalisrn was born. T he people got what they wanted.
 Murder os Dr. Ricardo Ruiz
 No description that has yet been written of Cuba, Is equal to It's magnificent and stupendous beauty. It can be called the island of en- chantment. Its reality is greater than the widest dreams of northern born people, who have never seen it's tropical delights.
 Its soil is rich with the blood of patriots who died for Cuba Libre. one of them was Dr. Ricardo Ruie. Tie was born in these United States, son of 6 Cuban planter, of an old and rich family. He was raised in Philadelphia, and graduated from the University Of Pennsylvania. aaaA a. a.aa.na Er EIaaE..