"MUCK-RAKING"
"Muck-Raking" FROM the Philadelphia North American, an independent, progressive newspaper that is doing good work in the regeneration of Pennsylvania, we take the following: We hold no brief for...
...The development of our waterways...
...And, therefore, to-day we cite the result of the casual retrospect of one year's activity by the magazines in what numerous eminent personages would have the American people believe the criminal enterprise of "muckraking": Advocacy of conserving the nation's timber supply and water power...
...Education on tuberculosis and other diseases...
...Fresh-air campaigns...
...Muck-Raking" FROM the Philadelphia North American, an independent, progressive newspaper that is doing good work in the regeneration of Pennsylvania, we take the following: We hold no brief for the magazines...
...Social betterment of workers...
...War on loan sharks...
...War on flies and other insect pests...
...The problem of the police in American cities...
...Juvenile courts...
...The preventable blindness of children...
...Rescue of poor children...
...The preservation of our forests...
...We speak for them only in the spirit of honest acknowledgment of a debt that has accumulated through the months...
...The needless of cost of coal mining in human life...
...Urging better tenements...
...Advertising the resources of Alaska...
...Exposures of white slavery...
...Revealing child-labor conditions...
...Advocacy of pure foods...
...We take from them information and inspiration...
...We find them united in a splendid work of educational humani-tarianism...
...War on doped medicines...
...Good government in cities...
...Improvement of agricultural methods...
...We find in them the embattled spirit of progressive Americanism concentrating the fire against the common enemy that any daily newspaper must perforce scatter...
...Improving conditions in mines and factories...
...Better care of immigrants...
...And these are the things of which "muckraking" is made...
...Open-air school propaganda...
...Better laws for injured workmen...
Vol. 3 • July 1911 • No. 28
