A STRONG INDICTMENT.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2095, 1 June 1907, Page 3

A STRONG INDICTMENT.

“Blackwood’s Magazine” contains a particularly scathing article on the Yellow Press in'"the United States, from Mr. Charles Wliibloy. Ho thinks that this Press excites tho nerves of tho foolish, presents a hideously false standard of life, suggests that nobody is safo from the omnipotent oavesdropper, and preaches day aftor day at tho top of its husky voice the gospel of snobbishness. “If thoro bo n museum which preserves Jjhese screaming sheets, this is the sort of stuff which in two thousand years will puzzlo tho scholars: Mrs. Jones won’t admit AVedding,’ ‘Millionaires Bet on a Snake Fight,’ Chi cago Church Girl Accuses Millionaire’ ‘Athletics make John D. forget his Money.’ These are a few pearls hastily strung together, and they show what jewels of intelligence aro most highly prized by the Greatest Democracy on Earth. Now and again the editor takes his readers into his Confidence, and asks them to interfere in tho affairs of persons whom they will never know. Here, for instance, is a characteristic problem set by an editor whose knowledge-of his public exceeds his respect for the decencies of life: ‘Wliat Mrs. Washington ought to do. Her Husband AA r all-street Broker Got tired of Her and Deserted. But Mrs. AAhishingfjon, who still loves him dearly, Is determined to win him back. And here is the Advice of the Readers of this Journal.’ Is it not monstrous — this interference with the privacy of common citizens? And yet this specimen has an air of dignity compared with the grosser exploits of the hired eavesdropper. Not long since there appeared in a Sunday paper a full list, with portraits and biographies, of all the ladies in New York who are habitual drunkards.”