The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-13

SutueS ana MAKERS Oh puDllc iOpiIl1OIl-
We are the great educators. Where
we lead the public follows No, no;
the press shifts the responsibility,
when it suits, upon the public whose
appetite grows with that it feeds up
on" and the desire for the coin OF the
realm is at the bottom Of it.
We find the foregoing in the editorial
columns Of new Utah weekly paper.
About the only bit of original news it
furnishes to it's readers is an account
of escape from jail by youth at the
place where two papers are published.
It is given il racy style to make it
paiatable and exciting to young folks
who read it, and in such way as to
provoke mirth at the expense of the
officer who was outwitted by the cul-
prit, and create more sympathy for
the boy burglar than for the baffled
Sheriff.
We do not name the paper. We have
no desire to injure it. We hope it will
be successful in giving the local news
of its vicinity and intoxicating pure
morality. BUTT does not seem to rea-
son very closely, and it may improve
in that if it's defect is pointed out. It
argues that, ct is a fearful thing to
put into the hands of youth the daily
newspaper" The size of the paper, ii
says, does not matter. It is just as
fearful a thing for youth whether the
paper is great or small" 1t is its
daily publication that causes the dan
ger. If it is only published once a
week it is all right 1t is no longer a
"corrupter of morals" A funny de
tailed account of youthful jail-break-
ing and hoodwinking an officer of the
law, is purifier of morals to the youth
when published in weakly paper, but
is a fearful corrupter of morals" if
published in a daily.
Another thing seems to trouble the
new candidate for public favor and
protector of public morals once a
week, and that is those daily corrupt
SAS uSSl CIe GOiu VI TIE realm.
That is indeed fearful thing" OF
course the young aper-afraid-of-a-
daily does not want any "coin of the
realm" Scrip, or store orders, or pro-
duce will fill the bill with it's business
manager. 1t. isn't likely he'd look at
coin of the realm as quid pro quo for
the moral weakly. But we would be
afraid to risk much on the chance of
his taking either gold or silver for ads
or subscription. For, our experience
in newspaperdom is that papers are
published to sell. Space for advertising
is for sale. The paper is offered for
sale and coin of the realm is wanted
for the weekly as we'll as for the daily
However, if the editor of the weekly
thinks the columns of a daily are any
more open for coin than those of a
weekly he is very greatly mistaken,
Money will not induce the great daily
papers to advocate immortality or any
thing designedly corrupt. Daily papers
are published to give the news and tc
comment on popular topics And they
supply a public demand. They usually
tone down and keep from going into
print details which are unnecessary to
a fair narration of current events, and
do far more to correct bad morals than
to corrupt them. After all, we think
the new weekly knows better than il
says, and is really after the coin which
it slurs the dailies for taking. But it
will find out that the difference be-
tween them is, the weekly is only a
seventh part as good as the daily.