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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR.
EDWARD LYMAN
BILL,
EBITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
J.
B. S P I L L A N E , MANAGING EDITOR.
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THE
ARTISTS'
DEPARTMENT
On the first Saturday of each
month The Review contains in its
"Artists' Department" all the cur-
rent musical news. This is effected
without in any way trespassing on the size or ser-
vice of the trade section of the paper. It has a
special circulation, and therefore augments mater-
ially the value of The Review to advertisers.
The directory of piano manu-
facturing firms and corporations
found on page 22 will be of great
value as a reference for dealers and others.
DIRECTORY OF
PIANO
MANUFACTURERS
DIRECTORY OF
ADVERTISERS
A directory of all advertisers
* n The Review will be found on
page 5.
EDITORIAL
THE ATTACK ON THE PKESiDhN I*.
Our great president
\A7HILE the assas-
stricken — Anarchis-
tic spirit encouraged
by yellow journalism
—Business interests
should combine to
curb the anarchists and
their advocates.
sin's treacherous
attack upon our Presi-
dent paralyzed the en-
ergies of the country for
a time, the encouraging reports of the doc-
tors have dissipated largely the pessimistic
feelings of the opening day of the week.
The great heart of the nation has gone out
to the bedside of our noble President, whom
the country loves and reveres. How any
human being could have harbored sufficient
malice against this noble-hearted man, whose
life has been given for the maintenance of
the union and the progress of his country,
is beyond human comprehension.
of the earth, was, in many respects, more
sorely tried than his great predecessors.
While we may divide American history
into the three periods under the men whom
we have named, perhaps no President has
ever occupied a more trying position in war
and in peace than has William McKinley,
the great, warm-hearted, tender, sympathetic
man, who was shot by the cowardly assassin
in the Pan-American City.
While the business interests of America
may be temporarily affected by Mr. McKin-
ley's indisposition, the process of govern-
ment will be uninterrupted and move on as
if the damnable assassination had not been.
People are asking themselves in horror,
how long this devil's work of anarchy is to
be permitted in this country. How long
liberty is to be interpreted by these red-
handed murderers as license to plot against
society.
Three American presidents have been shot
down, but none before by an avowed anarch-
ist. One, by an intense Southern sympa-
thizer, and another by a disappointed office
seeker; but William McKinley, the kindest,
gentlest of all, by one of a band of assassins,
who are linked together by a common love
for human blood, and the destruction of the
structure upon which society and govern-
ment rest.
There is no doubt but that this anarchistic
spirit in this country has been encouraged
by the lurid utterances of the yellow jour-
nals. They, more than any other one cause,
have fed the diseased minds of the anarch-
istic vermin with the sort of doctrine which
has encouraged violence; doctrines which
have created the opinion in the minds of
many that the proper way to elevate them-
selves was to use the knife and pistol on,
not alone hereditary rulers, but on men who
have won high positions in political and in
business life. The yellowest type among the
New York papers have encouraged this sort
of thing. They have suggested it, and al-
most urged it, and the effect of that class
of literature upon men of weak minds is
the same as the dime novel stuff upon boys
of tender years. They immediately wish to
get out the sword and pistol, and practice
shooting their playmates in the guise of a
Texas Tom or a Dakota Dick.
to a lie, and one that conveyed untold anguish
to thousands of hearts, and for the sake of
a few extra sales, it violated every claim to
decency.
As the business interests of this country
are sensitively affected by any national ca-
lamity, as the present which confronts us,
why should not the business men take an ac-
tive part in not only urging the passing of
stringent laws by Congress which will drive
these vipers from our shores, but also, in a
measure adopt rules which must have an ef-
fect upon these villainous sheets which con-
tribute so much for the wreck and ruin of
the business interests of the country? Sup-
pose half a dozen of the most prominent ad-
vertisers in New York should agree not to
patronize a paper which is unmistakably in
the yellow class. What would be the result
when these panders of filth see their pat-
ronage drifting away from them? They
would immediately change their utterances
to a more healthy tone, because it would be
to their interest to do so. The power of the
press, for good or evil, cannot be overesti-
mated ; but when the press is prostituted for
evil, there should be some remedy at hand
either to exterminate it, or to reduce its in-
fluence materially. The counting room to-
day dominates the editorial policy of a news-
paper, and if the receipts of that counting-
room were materially reduced on account of
the anarchistic utterances of a paper, there
is good reason to believe that, after a while,
the yellow type would be abandoned for
more readable and civilized style. Just as
the piano manufacturers have been a power-
ful influence in reforming the blackmailing
eiement of the trade press, so could the busi-
ness men of America act and in concert re-
move, to a large degree, this spread of a
class doctrine—this inciting the poor against
the rich, which plays such a prominent part
in the editorial columns of many papers.
Some of our politicians, too, have added
fuel to this flame; they have aided the class
hatred, and one of the most prominent was
In after days, when the history of his life
the first to raise a class issue in this coun-
becomes written, William McKinley will
try, and by his utterances attempted to cre-
occupy a place in American history, not ap-
ate a feeling that the rich were against the
proached by any other American President,
poor and were their natural enemies. It is
save Washington and Lincoln. Washing-
quite time when such heart-rending events
ton, who was the greatest product of Colo-
occur to look about and seek a remedy.
nial America, whose patriotism and genius
These anarchists' minds were poisoned in
It is not all the Emma Goldmans, but a
contributed to the founding of an infant na-
the
same
way
by
the
lurid
pronunciamentos
certain
class of politicians and a certain class
tion which should be the refuge of the per-
of these journals, that, for the sake of a few of yellow journals which have supplied food
secuted of all nations.
pennies, would counsel the burning of the and stimulants for the anarchists.
Lincoln, the man who guided the destinies
Capitol at Washington, or the assassination
THE USE AND "ABUSE OF NAMES.
of the country over the most troublous times,
of a President.
r\ UR readers will be
United S t a t e s
which resulted in cementing the nation as
C o u r t s rule that a
One, the most sensational and yellowest
interested in a re-
an indissoluble whole, and McKinley, the
man may not use his
of
all,
came
out
in
New
York
with
the
An-
cent
ruling
of the Unit-
name to injure t h e
man whose wise and beneficent administra-
rights
of
others—An
ed States Courts which
tion made America a world-wide power, and nouncement that the President was dead,
important ruling.
when
it
knew
that
it
was
giving
utterance
will do much to remove
gave her a dominant place among the nations