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MUCKRAKE IN TflE BIBLE
lint Mentioned There u One of the
Affllctioni of Job.
VANITY A CAUSE OF THE DISEASE
Bat Their Waa aa Kllaa Eti Thca
to Amntr tha Mackrakers,
Edward W. Trniimd
' Polata Oat.
NEW YORK. Feb. . There has recently
been organlied In Montclalr an Informal
little club known aa the Fellowship Circle.
It la composed of about twenty men who
are publisher, authors, newspaper men and
illustrators, and- the club meets once a
month at the house of some one 6t Us
members.
At the last meeting of the club, which
waa held at the home of Dr. Arthur B.
'Boat wick, the subject for discussion waa
"Yellow Journalism." Edward W. Town
end read the following novel contribution
to the history of muckraking
The evening's subject, as announced, la
"Yellow Journalism and the Muckraking
Magualnea." This yeehis to be a com
pound subject, yet easily resolves itself
Into a simple one, for, as I understand the
matter, a yellow journalist Is a muckraker
who has become a magaslnlat.
The murkraker is doubtless as old as
civilization, but the first mention of him
I have encountered Is In a Hebrew poem
known to us as the Book of Job. The
hero was a man whose excellence would
have occasioned the muckraker. If none
existed before his time, because "That man
was perfect and upright, and One that
feared God and eschewed evil." "
With such an enticing target could the
devil have fatted to create a muckraker
for his especial undoing? I think not.
He was a perfect and upright, therefore
the vanity of the Imperfect and unfair rose
up against him the - muckraker came
forth.
The first muckraker' to Interview- Job
man who speaks the language of reproof
has something t reprove. But remember,
EUlphaa was the first muckraker Job had
encountered, and he was not yet familiar
with the devices of the tribe.
He got to know them better when he had
been "exposed" by others, by BUdad and
by Zophar. It waa Zophar, by the way,
who wrung the observation out of Job;
"Man that is born of woman is of few days,
and full of troubje;" and later, when the
muckrukers had struck their gait, the per
fect man was goaded to exclaim: "Miser
able comforter are ye all!"
He proceeds to conelder muckraking in
language which seems to me to have a
present day application. "Shall vain words
have an endT" he asks; and finding that
there is to be no end he continues, hoping
to shut up his comforters, at least while he
himself has the floor: "I could speak as ye
do; If your soul were In my soul's stead I
could heap up words against you. and
shake mine head at you. He hath made
me weary; and thou hast filled me with
wrinkles. God hath delivered me to the
ungodly, and turned me Into, the bands
of the wicked. How long will' ye vex my
soul, and break me In pieces with- words?
These ten times ye have renroached me:
ye are not ashamed that ye make your
selves strange to me If, Indeed, ye will
magnify yourselves!"
Right there Job was getting on to their
Job; they were all out to magnify them'
selves.
"How oft Is the candle of the wicked put
out?" he asks at last, granting, for the sake
of argument, that he Is wicked, and that
the muckraker are trying to put out his
candle. A to that, neither Zophar nor BU
dad nor Eliphai gave answer.
They couldn't. It wasn't In their contract
to answer. They were sot trying to put
out anybody's candle, but merely trimming
It. that It might give light enough to war
rant their calling it a horrible conflagration,
do 1 liens mree men cearea to answer
Job," says our authoi. and adds, "Then
was kindled the wrath of Ellhu. the Buslte.
because they had found no answer, and yet
had condemned Job.
I refer you to the early verses of the
thirty-second chapter of Job for this In
terestlng evidence that even In the days of
the ancient Hebrew Doets. an Ellhu.
lf have not
said to blm: "If we e-say to .commune with Bulte. was put forward to give answer
.k-. wlH th.-tti 4vaiI? tint whA Cn 1 .
thee wilt thou be grieved? but who can
withhold himself from speaking?"
It ls no wonder that Job was discom
fited when he encountered a man who
could not be withheld from speaking, even
when he had nothing to aay which any one
wanted to hear, and that the perfect man.
said In his bewilderment: "Doth the wild
aaa bray when he hath grass? or loweth
the ox over his fodder?" It was after the
first murkraker had his Innings with Job
that the perfect man was moved to ask:
How forceful are right words! But what
doth your arguing reprove?"
Simple soul! lie supposed that the
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when Ihe muck rakers could not Justify
their raklngs. There Is nothing new under
the present administration. -Ellhus were
always on hand to apeak when a Buslte
was needed to say a few words to muck
raking comforters.
We may discover by searching' other
books of the same unlmpeachaTle authority
as that already quoted by what symptoms
wVj can safely diagnose the disease of muck
raking. It Is . vanity. Tbere can be no
doubt about that.
An abnormally vain man Is a potential
muck raker, and should at once be Isolated
and severely fumigated. Notoriety Is as
the breath of their nostrils; more so, even,
than I cents a word; though, doubtless,
the vanity of tha muck raker Is fertilised
by the price be receives for exploiting: bis
disease.
The Psalmist says: "Surely, men of low
degree are vanity." and In Zecharlab we
read: "For the idols have spoken vanity
and the diviners have seen a lie, and have
told false dreams; they comfort In vain."
Indeed, we could weary ourselves multiplying-
assertions found In the Bible that the
muck raker la a vain peraoi-4f It were
possible to weary of searching that book.
A few more verses will show the curious
fact that vanity is at once the cause and
symptom of the dlseese of those we find
described In Psalms as "The wicked who
go astray as soon as they are bora, speak
ing lies." We find the whole tribe of muck
rakers, described la . Isetaa thus;. "Njjne
calleth for Justice, nor any pleadeth for
truth; they, trust la vanity and speak Ilea;
they conceive mischief) and bring forth
Iniquity." Again, In Eieklel: "Because ye
have spoken vanity and seen lies, there
fore, behold, I am against you. And my
hand shall be upon the prophets who see
vanity and that divine Ilea."
Aa I understand Ezeklel, the much raker
sees vanity because it is a palpable efflu
vium rising like a mist out of his own
heart, and making his vision murky.
Excellent Jeremiah said of them: "And
they bend their tongue like their bow for
lies; but they are not valiant for the truth
upon the earth." The book points out that
the muck rakers' Industry la not cheerful
to any but themselves. In Kxeklei this Is
stated with admirable clearness, thus: "Be-
of the righteous sad. whom
made sad." ,
This thought leads us from the moral
to the commercial aspect of muck raking..
Nothing in magazine journalism which is
not cheerful can permanently succeed
unless It chances to be well written, and
their most ahamless . apologist has never
said that a muck raker could write well.
No magasine proprietor would indulge In
even a natural propensity for muck raking
If be thought it were Immoral and I have
proved that it Is Immoral by authorities
which magazine proprietors and editors
would have obeyed If they had heard .of
them before now. No; I speak of the com
merclal aspect, assuming that it has been
considered heretofore by those who believed
the Industry moral.
6od did not make us sad; and the meas
ure of our littleness compared to His Infinite
greatness la manifest In one respect. In
that, while God did not design ua to be sad.
some men in all ages have endeavored to
make us so. To this ungodly class the
muck raker essentially belongs.
It is godlike to be cheerful, and It la thus
the Instinct of honest men; but to be cheer
ful Is to be natural to attract attention
from the general, and is .therefore dls
esteemed by' the muck raker. But with
malicious premeditation to set about the
task of making people sad will gain noto
riety which, to the vain. Is a welcpme es
cape .from lives of concealed uselessnees.
"If we cannot be known for doing welL
at least let us be known for doing 111," they
shriek, "and set the saddening muck rake
flying."
The bora muck raker cannot endure to
waste his equivalent for fragrance on the
desert air; it must be wafted In the market
place, no matter how it offends the nostrils
of the people. At least the people know
it is there, though they suffer In the knowl
edge. No muck raker ever perished from
excess of decency.
80, we ask. Is It commercially wise for a
magazine to do that Which though It mo
mentarily attracts attention does It only
to sadden? Attention, aa It Is Interpreted
by the muck raker smd his publisher. Is
success. But an attention which has in It
the force of repulsion Is as unprofitable as
the dream stolen from the eim; the awaken
ing comes not alone with a sore heart,
which can be hidden, but also with a sore
head, which advertises Itself.
To reduce our figure to literal speech, the
magazine which attracts attention, that is,
readers and advertisers, by making dis
orderly noises In bad company Is preparing
for Itself a lodge In some vast wilderness,
where it will circulate only among carrion
birds and carry no advertlsemeAts except
of disinfectants- Healthy readers rebel
when they realise that the cause of their
sadness while reading a magazine Is a bad
smell, and that they are not suffering from
any complaint which a bad smell will cure.
The muckraker is a poor judge of human
nature; he does not discriminate In bis use
of the evil which Is In man. In that respeet
he is less crafty than the blackmailer, who
preftts by his knowledge that there always
are men who will pay to keep some muck
out of print. So. I ask, U tt even good busi
ness to print muck? I think not
The mills are regrlndlng Into pulp the
paper on which were piin.ed "The Treason
of the Senate," "The Shame of the Cities,"
The Crime of Frenzied Finance," regrlnd
lng into pulp to make sheets for the re
printing of "Don Quixote," "The Pickwick
Papers," "The Blglow Papers."
Having disposed of the subject morally
and commercially, ,we have only to con
sider it politically. Is It good politics to
print muck? No; It's rotten!
Some one has said that he would. rather
live under a government by the press than
under a government without a press. I
agree. I believe, that a majority of our law
makers, our lair executives, our law ex
pounders on the bench, are honest; but
the machinery whlph put them In ' office
is not in nonest hands, and the minority
among them is dishonest and clever.
The press, which is cheerfully alive to
the fact that more honest men than rogues
are In office, which Is alert to the evil de
Vices of the rogues, as well as to the good
Intentions of the honest; the press which
sees and approves the efforts for good
government, while It exposes the effort
to do 111, that press is vitally necessary to
our government.
But the muckraker would destroy that
government which the honest press pre
serves. Ho does not search for the good
to commend, but only for the evil to oon
demn; he does not Instruct when the honeet
majority is bedeviled by the dishonest min
ority but shouts that all are dishonest and
discourages those who strive to do well;
he docs not exercise his ability, does not
take advantage of , his opportunity to ap
plaud the good but only to distort every ap
pearance of evil Into proof that all la evil.
He la feeding his vanity with muck, not
his readers with truth.
He would If he bad the power tear down
our government, for bis - measures are
neither remedial nor constructive. He Is a
false prophet, who, like those spoken of In
Isaiah, believes: "When the overflowing
scounge shall pass through It shall not come
unto us, for we have made lies our refuge."
But. said Sophocles: '
Let them, then, mock and laugh at this
man's woes;
The time may come when they who did
not care
To see him living, In the need of war
May groan that he Is dead; for SUU the
base
In purpose never know the good they have.
Until they lose it.
After all, my friends, I believe my deep
est quarrel with the muckrakera la that
they are such a saddening lot. I neve
wearied myself seeking- td ohastea sin; It
usually finds Its punishment without my
aid, I notloe; yet I would like to help
scourge the muckraker because they have
sougfat to sadden the world.
It Is an exoellent place of rssldenoei
with every modern oonvenlanoe, light, sir,
an uplifting view, with good society; and
seems especially designed ' tor 'cheerful
souls. And so It would be always were It
not for the muckraker. Let ua rejoice
that It la so; most of the time. In spite of
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Naturally a girt would rather be beautiful
than Intellectual. There are mora stupid
men in the world than blind anea.
Curious and Romantic Capers of Cupid
Plantation Day Wedding.
XB of the largest weddings ever
held In North Carolina took place
at Spray when MlssOray More
head, daughter of Major and Mrs.
J. Turner Morehead of New York,
sua granddaughter of the late Governor
Morehead of North Carolina, was married
to Mr. Robert Lewis Parrlsh of Covington,
Va. Two thousand invitations have been
issued for the event.
The wedding took place in the house
which has been in the family possession
for years, the birthplace of Miss More
head, and Is now occupied by relatives,
Mr. and Mrs. B. "Frank Mebane. Owing to
the prominence of the Morehead family
great preparations were made for the
event. Seven houses, with the respective
negro servants of each, with the respective
by friends for the entertainment of the
wedding guests.
Plans for an old fashioned Southern
country wedding were carried out to the
let'err- The house was trimmed with a pro
fusion of Virginia smllax and American
Beauty rosea. The ceremony, was per
formed at 9 o'clock.
A supper was served to nearly 1,000
guests, followed by dancing and later, by a
Virginia reel. In which four geaerations of
the Morehead family participated.
Weddlna Withoat Romance,
As the result of F. D. Marvin, county
superintendent of the poor, Traverse CKy,
Mich., resolving himself into a matrimonial
agency, Peter Schofelt of Buckley and
Mrs. ChrUtlna Weese of Traverse City weie
married.
Mrs. Weese was divorced a short time ago
and has been drifting toward the poor
house, aid having been given her by the
county. The superintendent knew that Mr.
Schofelt wanted a housekeeper and wanted
one badly, that ha waa willing to marry
one, so be brought the couple together.
At tha meeting cold facts alone figured,
the groom's farm, two lota In Buckley and
personal property being a great factor.
Mrs. Weese had had experience with the
.fickleness of men, so she looked the ground
over carefully, going to Buckley for the
purpose. Then she asked for time to think
It over.
In the meantime two other- women got
wise and going to Buckley wooed Khufeit
In such aa arduous manner -that he was
frightened. When he waa 'around they
were perfect doves, but when he left the
house they met in a hand-to-hand encounter
and were separated by him.
In a spirit of revenge one Is said to have
filled ber valise with silverware on her de
parture and an officer was required to
make bur give It up.
' Sobefelt waa attracted by. Mrs. Weese,
however, and concluded to take her. The
climax came when he found that she did
not have money enough to pay the attorney
who secured her divorce, so the prospec
tive groom shelled out the necessary $30
aa first payment on his wife.
For tha Fifth Time.
Robert J. Burkett and Hannah M. Bur
kett, who lived on a ranch north of Lander,
Wyo., have Juat,been married for the fifth
time, having been divorced four times since
they first became husband and wife, twenty
odd years ago.
Within six months after their first mar
riage In Montana, Mrs. Burkett applied
for and obtained' a divorce from her hus
band on the ground of cruelty. Within a
year they remarried, quarreled soon after
the second marriage, and Mrs. Burkett
left ber husband, who obtained a divorce
on the ground of desertion. The next
divorce was obtained by the wife on the
ground of desertion and nonsupport. The
last divorce was obtained by the husband
on the ground of desertion.
Wis Brides an Case.
Cupid's first venture In "bookmaklng" i
has gone on record with the deuble elope
ment of four Chicago young persons and
proved to be such a financial success that
for a week the elopers have been enjoying
an expensive honeymoon off the proceeds.
The novel Idea of getting married as a
financial venture, relates the Chicago
Tribune, was conceived by Fred Crelghton,
19 years of age, and netfed $170, clear
money, at various odds. His bride waa
Miss Blanche Miltimore, aged IS.
When Crelghton and his bride told of
their plans to his chum, William Eckhardt,
JU years old, whose father runs the Walton
garage, Walton Place and North State
street, and whose sweetheart was Ruby
Miltimore, the 16-year-old stater of Crelgh
ton'e bride, the. plans wars soon laid In
real romance fashion. They aU would elope
In an automobile to be furnished by Eok
bardt. The four were married with a double
wedding. January 18, In Crown Point, IndM
'By Judge Nicholson, .and after a week's
honeymoon they returned to Chicago.
The' plans as formed were carried out to
the letter. The one trouble In the course of
true love only tended to give a- little more
romantic savor to the escapade. That waa
that when within three and a half miles
of Crown Polat the automobile broke down.
The Journey was finished oa foot, but
within the given time necessary to win
the 1170 In bets arranged by Crelghton.
The story as a whole makes the average
paper back love story look dull and un
eventful. To begin with. Crelghton Is only
aa offloe boy for Dr. T. ft. Oreaa, Dr. W.
3. Mitchell and Dr. Fred A. Blssett, aU of
whom have offices adjoining one another
at 3900 Cottage Grove avenue. He' Is stren
uous, for, besides looking after his work aa
office boy, he has been VVteoding the Wen
dell Phillips High school of mornings, was
an usher evenings at the Studebaker thea
ter, and on the side found time for courting
Miss Miltimore.
"Well, I was driven to It." was the ex
planation of young Crelghton last evening,
shortly after the quartet had arrived In
Chicago. "The doctors jollied the life out
of me for trying to court a girl and keep
up with all my other duties, and said they'd
bet I'd never win her. When they talked
of betting It looked like easy money for
me, because I thought I knew pretty nearly
how I stood In Miss Mlltlmore's good
graces I asked them how much they'd
bet.
"That only encouraged them, and ' they
said they'd make It ten to five. I said I'J
take them up and limit the time to. forty
eight hou-s. Then all the rest of my
friends who heard of my bet wanted to
game. I talked it over with Miss Milti
more, and she said she was ready any old
time. I figured out It was 1170 dear money,
and have collected the cash."
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A novel ceremony was performed In Jack
son, Miss., when Miss Maud Smith became
the wife of Meady Pierce. After securing a
marriage license the prospective bridegroom
negotiated with a magistrate to meet him"
at a designated corner and accompany him
on a street car ride.
The accommodating justice did so and
after boarding the car was Introduced to
Miss Smith nd Informed that they desired
to huse a marriage ceremony performed
then and there.
This was a little out of the ordinary, but
the justice, still accommodating, made bis'
preparations for tying the nuptial knot
while the car speeded onward. Just before
reaching the end of the track the couple
announced that they were ready and, stand
ing In the center of the car, were soon aa
tightly tied as If the ceremony had been
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