Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-02-14
pIsREpUTABLE JOURNALIST.
When Driven to Face Its Deeds II Cries
Out "Perse cution."
california Shirt of the Times

Out IefseCutlOh.
california Spirit of the Times.]
There are men in the newspaper fra
ternity who, becoming possessed by con-
| catenation of circumstances, of press, a
| few pounds of type and a keg of ink, con-
| slider their future mission on earth 10 be a
studied course of libel. Misrepresentation
and SANDER. Their publications TEEN with
! the grossest abuse, the most depraved lies
and cowardly assertions. They publish
| brutal and damnable falsehoods and out
| rageous criticisms upon men against whom
| there is not the slightest tinge of wrong
doing or dishonesty. This they do under
what they term the liberty of the press, but
| their reason is a lie, it is the license of the
press. They write and publish of men,
whose shoe-latchets they are not worthy to
unloose, defamation of the most villainous
character, couched in language they would
not dare to utter in the presence of those
| they assault. They endeavor to be sensa-
| tional, and, at the same time, are pro-
foundly ignorant of the real ingredients
that constitute true Sensation they
think that by plunging families into
the deepest distress and anguish by per-
sonal attacks upon their best loved ones,
they achieve character for independence,
whereas they are looked upon in their
proper light, that of infamous rascals and
1 CON6IdlN 1n6Y Iull-dluuCh
of libel and detraction against the weak
hearted and modest without impediment
so long, that they form the opinion they are
invincible, until they become so wild and
reckless in their field of filth and dirt they
go beyond the bounds of all consideration,
and place themselves in q position whereby
| they are checked, either by a bullet dis
charged by the hand of someone without
restraint or family influence, who thus
avenges the wrong done him, or they are
taken into the Courts where justice may be
asked and received. And when retribu-
ton is brought to the doors of these rotten
hearted libelers and traducers they set up a
howl and ask if the liberty of the press is
to be restricted, and "squeal" out in their
agony at the fear of approaching pun
ishment, that combination has been
formed to crush them out. They do not
care how grievously they wound and ininre
the family and friends of another,
but when they feel the meshes of the law
entangling them they beg like cowardly
ours that their families shall be spared in
the retributive justice that is demanded
shall be melted out to them for their shame
full conduct. For a class of newspaper
towards and ghouls like that to which we
have Just made reference, we entertain a
contempt born of loathsomeness for the
subject which for the time attracts our
notice. They measure men by their own
| standard, and conclude because they, like
! thieves in the night, enter the sanctity of
life, to rob, plumber and injure, that with
out regard to sex, those they despoil are
actuated by the same motives. = 1t
is time the miserable course pursued by
the trained ibeler and blackmailer-for
each and every one of these newspapers
who enter upon the list the work blackmail
| as their chief stock in trade, thrives upon
blood be changed, so that
they shall be driven away from the habita-
tons of men under one OF these five prop
sitions or all of them:
l. By force on the part of those at
tackled.
2. By starvation superinduced by with
drawal of patronage.
B. By the interposition of the Courts in
civil and criminal cases, upon each and
every occasion where libel is published.
4. By concert of action on the part Of the
libeled, the stronger inspiring the weaker
with courage in the contest to be waged.
5. By following up each case with intel
iigence, good judgment and activity, fight
ing the villains and scoundrels, rendering
it necessary, step by step, through the
Courts.
OF course, the libelers thus pursued will
"squeal" and cry out persecution, because
we know pair of them who for more
than fourteen months have, without
provocation (their victim never having
placed hair in their way, been pursuing
a citizen of this State with rancor and
venom disgraceful and infamous. with a
series of wretched llhels who squeal out
persecution because he has invoked the
law in antagonism of the course pursued
by the ibelers.