New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-08-14
which Universal Amnesty would have saved
How many more can we spare1
OCEANS IND ORGANISM.


IT.. World discussing the New Departure
and its adiuncts with the VicePresident OF the
late so-called Southern Confederacy' WIN IT,
markable candOr says:
&" tn, World claims to be an organ OF Democratic pun
lie opinion It has wide intercourse with Northern
Democratic Statesmen, ana aims TO express 'no
average sense of the wsest and most sHE'oio
members OF the party. It's cher Claim " oo"'
Grafton apart from its merits as ho"'pV
rests upon its representative character us eul'o.
never signs its editorials ps Mr.. stephens always
doe a. because lie trusts that he has too muoh sense
modesty and because he is too truly ana sino'loi'
Democrat TO think the opinions Of any one ctiIoh anu
voter Of much public consequence"
Comments BY The Tribune.
We believe there is no other country 'hah
this wherein the above avowal couid dc hiauc
without conscious self-degradatlon and a general
indignant protest; and yet here are thousands,
if not n majority, who will regard it as mat
ter of course-a little too frankly stated,
perhaps, but substantially the rule whereby all
marty journals are and must DO governed
We believe this, because we have repeatedly
been warned" You are going counter to pub
"lic opinion that is, Republican opinion-as
though we need only be assured OF this TO IN
duce us to wear ship and scud before the VIVA
forthwith.
1t is quite possible that the opinions OF any
one citizen care not of much public conse-
"quence )" yet we hold the editor OF puDhc
journal bound to hare opinions on great pun
| lie questions, and to set them forth, upon occa-
sion, candidly and truthfully. His readers eX-
meet tLis-are cheated when he gives tnc1n
d" the average sense of the wisest ana
"most sagacious members OF the party"
as his own convictions. If he chooses 10 SET
forth that "avcrage sense" for what IL Is,
very WELL but let him never cOnfound OF con-
fuse this with his own adverse view a good
many thousands have, at one time or another,
stopped THE TRIBUNE because, on some ques-
ton of the hour, it did not express their
"average sense" Cor lack thereof0 yet it has
always felt bound to set forth its editors con-
victions, even where he knew or supposed
| them unacceptable to the larger number OF
! his readers. When called to choose between
displeasng and misleading them, he has always
felt bound, as the dictate OF simple duty, to
! prefer the former.
Outside of this country, we know not where
| a journal of the representative character"
claimed by The World any whore exists. 1t
ought not to exist here, because 1t decelyeS
and misleads. Good, worthy citizens, who read
but one journal, and that of the representa-
tive" kind, hear all about the frauds, cOriup-
! tons and robberlcs of the adverse party, but
nothing OF the kindred rascaltics perpctrated
| by politicians of their own school, and really
believe that, if their party was but in power
everywhere, peculatiOn and official rapaclty
would cease. They mistake disease of tho
times for a peculiar dcpravity of the party
which they have been trained to distrust and
detest. Until they shall be enlightened, re-
| form is well nigh impossible.