The Weekly Journal. — 1903-06-26 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

JOURNALISTIC " SMARTNMS."  The average Englishman has no love fat American journalism of the yellow kind, ANL when M. V. Ponionby, Esq., tells us that tot editor of " oae of the greatest New Verb dailies, on being pat in the sasses stone., and, asked what to did for • living, Mined te answer on the ground that under the law ht was not bound to Incriminate himself," we at, almost persuaded to believe him. Here a a story of the methods of the " yetlow" reporter. " A reporter on a Chicago paper tonna sit obstruction on a railway track which, if it. bad remained there, would have wrecked the train and killed 75 persons. Sirange4 forgetting all his professional inetinets, he removed the obstructon and saved 76 lives. Ile was discharged by his employer for lismiparing the I production of important news. In 'sentry places in the United States crime es often 111.111U1factured by journalists, in order that they may print an account of it. In an Indiana town a I reporter purchased • dead body from the Medical College, and tonna It at least fifteen I tares under circumstances suggesting that A foul murder had been committed. He gee I fifteen separate sensations for the small price lof tweuty-five dollars, which was what he paid for the corpse. When his methods were c...posed by the man from whom he bad bought the body, who resented the fact that he had bees paid for it with a bogus cheque. dishonoured by the loeal bank, instead of being disgraced as to his profession, he was elected unanimously President of the local Press Club. and his salary was doubled by his employer. Since then be saa gone to Congress, and hae become one of the richest men in the State. And all this the result of a dead body, a bogus cheque, and ' smartness." UNSTINTED PRAISE AT LAST! Shall any good thing come out of Nasareth? Well, yes; even N. V. Poasoaoy, Rim., is booed to admit that there shall, as thus:— .  " There is no liner pewees on earth than Or American farmer, the Amearean cowboy. the American miner, the American boothlaelk.or the American washer woman. The diatortions, the anomalies, the degenerates, and the monkeyfled being., are not found among the producers; " and the bulk of Americans are producers. That is what makes America so prosperous. Most Americans on rising from their beds in the morning say to themselves, • How much wheat, pork, iron, or talk can I produce to-day' The attitude of the Englishman is entirely different. lie says to himself, 'How little can Ido to-day, and still' draw my wage' The result of the American attitude is teat an enormous quantity of wood, pork. Iron. and talk are produced daily, and the country becomes rich. The result of the English attitudes. that not as many things are produced. and the country remains mere or less at a Isainintall. Bat for genuine whole-isouled wholesomeness and worth, there is no one anywhere equal to the Ante& can journeyman, be he a fireman, drover, butcher, soldier, or sailor."  , For that one grain of riomnsendation Uncle Sam is indebted to M. V. Ponwsby, Esq. For the rest the Preposterets Tanker will no I doubt derive as much amusement from his book as will the "Egregious English."