The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-06-22

uPOd tu0 Sfienu VINO abused our confidence
in recommending him and only the strong,
est inc m~ossexplicit Of explanations, tending
to convince usfhat he had himself been de-
ceived and mistaken in the others character
can prevent the old friend from being dropped
from our acquaintance together with him
whom he recommended.
Why should not u like responsibility be
attached to the publisher when, through the
medium of his paper, he introduces quacks
and swindlers Of every description to his
readers? The man who occupies tie edito-
rial chair of anything deserving the name of
newspaper, if at all fit for that position, knows
something of the world. He has seen life in
its harder as well as in its more emotional
aspects, and has learned to form his Judgment
OF men and their actions in correct perspect-
i've with the world as it actually is, not as it
ought to be. Such a man knows with a GER
tainty excluding doubt that every lottery
scheme is a swindle. Then why excuse him
from responsibility when he prostitutes the
pages of his paper in commenting to the no.
tlce of the people upon whom his paper de-
ponds for support the charlatan whose ambi-
ton it is to rob and prey upon those people.
Or take the advertisements in which quacks
Vaunt their ability to cure loathsome diseases,
uninentionable to ears polite. What right
has the publisher to befoul his paper with
such nastiness and then ask for it admittance
into respectable families? Instead of putting
such stuff in his paper, suppose he were to
at The hpiSa nf tlo c,b,,,;h,, 49,,
AXE by the spoken word to recount the ex-
1loits of his quack friend, how quickly the
'aternal boot would be brought into requlsi-
ion to convey a touching hint that impure
MENTION would not be tolerated in that house,
loid. Yet what difference is there, in effect,
'etween The word written and the word I
i
Professor Burt Wilder, of Harvard, in a I
'ork Oh a special branch of the medical sci d
nee refers to this subject and to the e
ms OF thousands who trace their physical !
nd moral ruin directly to advertisements of +
lat class. After giving a distinct and unmis- a
liable warning against them, he goes a step II
'rther i'll words to the following effect "No n
ne better than the publisher OF a newspaper "
=
the cost of advertising. When Won Ia
nd a paper containing an advertisement in tt
hlch you are offered a prescription free, or h
lVice free, Or anything free, then the pub e;
'her OF that paper has knowingly made him. m
If the ally Of the most dangerous of swind- lit
rs. Such a paper you should no more take m
me to Your family than you would take o:
me a rattlesnake. Throw it from your m
'ors. Admit it on no consideration: else he
u may discover when too late, and only NJ
rough the ruin of some member of your Sc
usetold that it has done it's work, work W;
hich cannot be undone." tn
If this sound advice were followed, if
pers admitting improper advertisements Sc
IRE held to an accountability for this Of ~
ice against good taste and good morals, such co
finishes would speedily disappear from the nc
ses OF the Journals which are taken for the tn
they give, and for the ennobling mi
luence they are supposed to exert, and not de
the d~ebasing suggestions of the quacks adj in'
tied to a place in their columns. pc