If you notice the date, it is the beginning of the 20th century and the technology of photography was slowly being incorporated in the news. More than a thousand words as the saying goes.
Today we have just political PR rags dedicates solely on telling you why you are always wrong and why you should be blamed for not being politically on the left of Stalin. But then again the newspapers went from fighting real injustice to being propaganda machine for the party who supported lynchings back then.