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In the meantime I was going about my general work, and an easy task it proved. My city editor, cool, speculative1, diplomatic soul, soon instructed me as to the value of news and its limitations here. “We don’t touch on labor2 conditions except through our labor man,” he told me, “and he knows what to say. There’s nothing to be said about the rich or religious in a derogatory sense: they’re all right in so far as we know. We don’t touch on scandals in high life. The big steel men here just about own the place, so we can’t. Some papers out West and down in New York go in for sensationalism, but we don’t. I’d rather have some simple little feature any time, a story about some old fellow with eccentric habits, than any of these scandals or tragedies. Of course we do cover them when we have to, but we have to be mighty3 careful what we say.”
So much for a free press in Pittsburgh, A.D. 1893!
And I found that the city itself, possibly by reason of the recent defeat administered to organized labor and the soft pedal of the newspapers, presented a most quiescent4 and somnolent5 aspect. There was little local news. Suicides, occasional drownings, a wedding or death in high society, a brawl6 in a saloon, the enlargement of a steel plant, the visit of a celebrity7 or the remarks of some local pastor8, provided the pabulum on which the local readers were fed. Sometimes an outside event, such as the organization by General Coxey, of Canton, Ohio, of his “hobo” army, at that time moving toward Washington to petition congress against the doings of the trusts; or the dictatorial9
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oligarchy
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manifestation
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browsing
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alcove
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