'A Japanese speaker at the San Francisco overseas trade convention this month made a statement which is well worth attention. In asking for a fair hearing of Japan's case, he pointed out that the -foreign trade of America could not be developed to its full extent until the "yellow journalism of the United States had been curbed." "There is probably much truth in this remark, and it is worth noting that a man of the standing of Captain Robert Dollar is reported also to have urged the curbing of this section of the press. Looking at the matter in a general way, the point to be noted is that the yellow sec~ tion of any country's press is liable to get more notice than is its due, for the simple reason that it is invariably the noisiest. And it represents none of the sound opinion of a country, but from its genius for self-advertisement it may give a thoroughly wrong impression people of other lands who lack intimacy with its methods. To believe in the advisability of curbing it is one thing, to achieve that is another, for in these days of much and increasing talk of democracy, it is a delicate operation, liable to arouse much bitter opposition, even to mate a pretence of anything of the ind.
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