Life, 1918-10-10 · page 11 of 33
Life — October 10, 1918 — page 11: what you’re looking at
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This satirical piece critiques New York newspapers' attacks on William Randolph Hearst and his *Journal*. The top illustration shows a bride and groom (likely representing Hearst and his wife) surrounded by skull-decorated flowers—symbolizing the "poisoned" coverage from rival papers like the *Tribune*, *World*, *Times*, and *Sun*. The article notes these papers compete fiercely in their opposition to Hearst, each with different motives. The bottom cartoon depicts men carrying money bags labeled with dollar signs, captioned "HIGH PRIVATES IN THE HOME GUARD"—satirizing wealthy brewers (many German-descended) who fund newspapers to advance their interests, particularly regarding alcohol regulation and German propaganda during the WWI period.
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515 When Newspapers Fall Out T is all right for the New York pa- pers to pound one another for a change. No doubt they all deserve it, and it keeps their talents employed. to the relief of other objects that they might get after harder if they were not so busy with family discipline he Tribune makes a specialty of assaulting Hearst and his journals, and has done admirable service in that cause, though sometimes it shows symptoms of myopia in its zeal. The World also pounds Hearst‘very hearti ly. The Times, less obtrusively, being restrained, perhaps, by Hearst's inti- acy with Israel All these papers and the Sun pay close attention, but with different de- grees of em . to Brisbane's. esca- pade with the brewers. The turpitude of Brisbane's conduct is probably e: ted. He has written excellent sense about drinks, fighting for beer and light wines, and treating whiskey and all spirits coldly. The brewers ought to back him because he writes so mu sense on their side, But, of course, let a squad of important brewers put up money to buy a Washington paper for him, and then to have it get out, is a considerable embarrassment \ newspaper financed by “interests” of any kind, and to be used to help them, is apt to be an embarrassment te anyone who undertakes to own and edit it And the case for Brisbane is not helped by the fact that his angel brewers are almost all of German deri- vation, and were heartily pro-German until the United States got into the war, and that three years ago there was a German propaganda plan to buy @ Ss Ah HIGH PRIVATES IN THE nowt GUARD comicbooks.com