Old home town – 100 years ago today

Oct. 14, 1902, the Lawrence Journal had along editorial regarding the previous evening’s coal miners strike resolution by the Lawrence city council. The city council had received a telegram from the New York American, a paper owned by William Randolph Hearst, asking for support for the newspaper’s indictment of the coal mine owners. The council had issued a resolution in support of this indictment. The editorial began “The Journal takes it for granted that it was mere thoughtfulness on the part of the members that caused the passage last night of the resolution of condemnation of mine owners. It is not to be supposed for a moment that men like our city councilmen would do such a thing in calmness and deliberation at the behest of a yellow journal, the sole object of which is to advertise itself and make bad matters worse”