JOURNALISTIC HESSIANS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 71, 21 September 1877, Page 2

JOURNALISTIC HESSIANS.

Tl*e owners of n»>»t of the Xew York daily press are speculntors and stock gom-Were— Jay GouM being perhaps thu mo&t conspicuous — and the cohort o* quill) drivers in their pay are so many liter-try proslitu'es. These mercenaries foiow-they are Ejereenaries ; ami the consciousness of their degradation 1 has- render then* utterly demorali2ed'Bßd shameless. An ezetrpt'wv, perhaps-, ought to be made i«< favor oft lie- reporters,, whose business it i» merely to chronicle passing events. But the well-fed and well kennelled dogs called editors — tbe mouthpieces of the 1 mammoth capitalistic swindlers- that lives by roguery and grows fa( on frai?d — are a sorry pack. Like the Hessians who* fought against t?w Revolution- they readily do any work wlneb the. masters who own- - them bioVaixl. Fike those Hessians, too, they make war »pon the Americau peo« pie in their struggle for life against tht> I oppression of tyrannical capital with a wanton brutality unknown to civilized 1 men. The fiendish- try raised by then* for blood daring this strike recalls theeeljo of the war«wlioop of George thtr Third's red Indian savages.