New-York tribune., 1878-02-16
HOW INGERSOLL is RECEIVED.
A NEWSPAPERS DUTY TO IT'S READERS

70 the Editor OF The Trfbune
SIR: I notice several complaints against The
TRIBUNE for publishing reports OF Colonel lngersoVs
lectures The writer's would have You suppress very
notable matter news because they hold opposite op-
ions Willie you publish newspaper you will probably
do no such thing 1t the old story heard all the
way down the agesone side cannot bear the hsht' the
other side clamOrs for more and higher illumination.
With nothing is light except what hckers from
under its bushe; the other side welcomes light from
every part of the wide universe and every ray from the
deepest FOSSIL the remOtest star, aid 10 vision
One side down stakes fences its intellectual pari
mony of into lots, and takes vow never to be WISER
The other side claims the whole unbounded universe OF
ght and action lite rightul inheritance one sdc
dwels IN the shade and relies on censorship and re-
preston TO obscure the intellect and retard progress
Tne index Expurgatorus is regular institution OF the
Papacy and humble imitation, every Protestant sect
has its catalogue of propositions, which IT is impiou TO
affirm and any publisher no dares put tIeIn ~ Pls 70
damned rather was, TIL last years d0upts rehere
uncertain whether there is any good place. with supplies
and cOnyeniences TO do 1t. The other sde see 10 pint
ubsh and proclaim everywhere the last WORD OF truth
mat can possibly be asceraned in whatsoever doman'
and on every Imaginable subject ,
THE TRIBUNE has al ways stood as the one coi5pIcu p
Gus medium circulation OF the ideas OF Doh par
ties ana, perhaps. in sense as the uhplle oI b
read il awayJ Are YOU 10 be asked to abandon that
position aud become Onesided nOwf thlnh co0i re-
Whcn YOU conclude TO report side and suppress the
otner you will fair enough TO give WIDE nqce so tn
rr NAV seek find another to take uQ the abandoned
freedom and carry II forward an age or Two Iufther
WHAT more your crltics ask you 10 90 Ior tclr
siel Have they forgotten that immense, that massive
pnrt of the last Evangelical Alliance in session IN TINS
cfy1 You reported with great fulness the Moody ana
Sa1Key demonstration at GilmOre's Garden now Ihat
the Jngers0l revival il spreading, and "overiow meet
ncs" have bc provided for III that same spacious re-
SORT are we 10 be bcgrudgcd fair report O te pro-
ree9ng.I You print on Mondays reports OF various Or
hodox ST imons delivered sunday, and no Liberal com
ulain For one. read them win rs Iuch pleasure US
DO any news views that are intcrestlEg-thOngI OF
truth some them I'll only for your correspOndeh's
s.,yastc basket" When you start on course
of repreesion the behest OF your correspOAientS
thuk Won will he bothered draw the line lt would
ue Ot at lea haf OI that admirable sketch OF Tie dc
g paragrapA and bit OF from that prince 0 CORE
sp0udcutS. w. So, of Lon on, would nave 20 ne sup
pressed The speeches OF Gambeta AGAINST the Cleicas
tue lectures OF the scientists and many utleractsO OF
general interest Woud have 10 90 by the board All hl'
Il might b, easy 10 do; hut there would oe Dor
der Land OF hafan-lia out OF which would rse state
ueu OF mixed views aud nO-yieWs that the bg0eu In
nIc Tor there sucD might oppose and the thristlan
and editorial soul WOuu ne TORN
with conflicting hesii84iOns, doubts ana appteaVnS do
10 wiose tenderness lie would hurt by publication.
No. sir; the only safe and generally satisfactory
course W ~ be inpaI tal publication OF whatever Is IL
interest 10 either SIDE Wherever there j. HOEcttDt
OF sufficient Importance T. set thoughts eVOlVng ana
tongues waggIug two three thousand Heads or any
party of yor parish OF readeTs let TIE
ever aud pointed pencil OF your reporter be
there give all of such account or II as tlmportance
demands Nobody need read il who doesn't Ike il; Dt
Il viii be good intellectual pabuul1 ana slstehahce 10
those who do. lHkkOn - iShLA'D'
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