Halt “Yellow” Journalism
A mighty protest is being heard all
over the land against “yellow” journalism, and if the people practice
what they preach the death knell of these disreptuable [sic] newspapers
will be sounded.
Another instance of audacity on the
part of the Philadelphia “Yellow Pest,” the journalistic attachment
of the bargain counter, was given on Sunday when the “Yellow Pest”
sent telegrams to the pastors of all the Allentown churches announcing
the condition of the president. It is gratifying to note that, with
but few exceptions, these telegrams were cast aside as soon as the
signature was read. The look of contempt and scorn on the face of
the pastor of one of the most influential congregations in the city
as he glanced over the telegram after it was handed to him on the
pulpit and the haste with which the reverend gentleman cast it aside
as though it had come from a pest house, spoke more eloquently than
tongue could of that pastor’s opinion of “yellow” journalism.
It was the idea of the publishers
that the minister would announce something like this: “Through the
characteristic enterprise of the ‘Yellow Pest,’ of Philadelphia,
the pastor is enabled to inform his congregation of the condition
of the president,” etc. Allentown ministers, however, are not yet
prepared to indulge in “yellow” religion.
All that the Philadelphia “Yellow
Pest” can do now in the way of shedding crocodile tears over the
attempted assassination of the nation’s president will not wash
away the stains of blood which are spattered over that vile sheet,
for in championing the cause of Emma Goldman, the high priestess
of anarchy, in her clash with the Philadelphia police, it encouraged
beasts in human form like Czolgosz to plot against the life of the
nation’s beloved chief executive.
The time is here to call a halt on
anarchistic newspapers.
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