With the ensuing civil war, Yu and his family moved to Taiwan, a country in extreme poverty and still relatively unenlightened. Yu decided to play out his role as intellectual and social critic through establishing a newspaper.
之後國共內戰，余先生舉家遷台，在物力財力極端缺乏、民智尚稱懵懂的年代，余先生決定以辦報形式，善盡知識份子言責。