Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1899 — Yellow Journalism. [ARTICLE]

Yellow Journalism.

Wealth, fame, age, position or previous conduct serve not in the least as a barrier to misrepresentation by the horde of sensational yellow journals who seem to delight in putting into the month of a wise man the silly twaddle of a fool. The latest is a pretended interview with Admiral Dewey in which he is made to say that “oar next war will be with Germany,” that “we need a navy which can cope with any other power,” and more tommy rot in the same vein, whioh is an insult to the Intelligence of every reader and donbly so to the man who is misrepresented. The idea that the bronzed hero of Manilla bay, the man who has held the most trying position of any man in the pnblio eye for more than a year, the man who has won in both Contests of strength, skill and diplomacy and became the idol of his countrymen with never a slip of the tongue nor a false step, should impart to a driveling reporter such expression of opinion is preposterous, idiotic and without the pale of reason. The Chicago Bargain Store is the only house in town that SJaSsSw cents a dozen; the Quarto at 82 cento a dozen.