The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-15
Kind Words of Appreciation
From Interior Jour-
nails.
OF THE NEW CALL"
Approval on the Part OF the
State Papers.
A NEW JOURNALISTIC ERA.
III: d. Boruck in The Spirit of the Times.

-u- D' 1ool uchS IN Gte OptFu " LIc 1t1tcS.
new era has dawned upon the press of San
Francisco. A new era for good, and we are re-
sponsible for it. Yesl We. 1t is ours by the
right OF discovery. 1t is only within the last
three months there has been any of the decen-
cies or amenities of life exhibited so far as the
newspapers are concerned, one toward the
other. The name of one editor was unknown
to the other, so far as publication'in the re-
spectiVe sheets went, and the name Of the pa
per was referred to by innuendo. Gross person
alities were INDUCED, and each was clutching
at the others throat. About that time we came
upon the field of action, and delivered lee.
ture, not against the press of San Francisco,
but In its interest. We showed them the folly
OF their ways, and they recognized the justice
OF our remarks by changing their course and
adopting our suggestions
Among other things in that lecture we said:
"Now will tell San Francisco as a munich
pality, and California as State and her citi-
zens as business men, what, in my judgment,
they need, and that is an honest, rconscien-
t1ous, truthful and independent press They
want a newspaper that will be fearless enough
to represent San Francisco, without the inter-
change OF barter. They need newspaper not
dependent upon Matchmaking propensities or
Its advertising patronage for success. They need
newspaper which, when its advertising col
unins are used for announcement of trade,
commerce and general business purposes carry
no editorial comment with their publication.
They need newspaper that will expose wrong
doing in all places; even If those who are
its advertising patronage suffer under the
castigation of those controlling it. They
need newspaper that will treat all patrons
alike, nothing extenuating or setting down
aught in malice And that tUiI not invade
the sonctity Of priUate life. They need a
newspaper that in order to sell few more
of its issues will not soak its columns in I've.
1t needs paper that will protect its interests
and the good name and fame of the people
most deeply interested in such journal. 1t
needs newspaper that will not malign and
SANDER women, or attack, libel and insult
men that its conductors cannot use for their
own criminal purposes. 1t needs newspaper
that will not give the sickening details of an
abortion for breakfast, horrible murder for
lunch and vile seduction for dinner. 1t
needs newspaper that will not, by implica-
ton, even, endeavor to make it appear that all
our young girls are incipiently bad and all our
young men full-hedged roues. 1t needs q
newspaper that will not try to make it appear
that the community is q band OF metropolitan
thieves and scoundrels and unfit for the So
ciety OF man or beast. 1t needs newspaper
that can sustain itself on its circulation until
its steadfastness of purpose in the right direc-
ton will bring it the richest and fullest sup
port.
''This is what's needed, and what particularly
San Francisco needs, and money expended in
that direction would return to its people g.
hundred fold There are those who talk about
people being priest-ridden and all that sort of
thing, but the people of San Francisco are being
ground into the very dust to-day under the
trampling hoofs of a rough-shod daily press,
and yet in the face of it the sufferers under
such brutal regime continue to suffer, al
though the avenue of escape is just as plain
and clear before them as the MONDAY sun.
Fear restraints them"
That very character of newspaper is here to-
day in all its vigor and manhood, and is rep
resented in the DAILY MORNING CALL, of which
Charles NJ Shortridge is editor and proprietor
He, too, more than any other man connected
with the daily press of San Francisco, has done
everything to assist in bringing about the
amenities between the newspa pers as above
referred to. We claim that the "press, as il
was, as 1t is as it should be-" is the Moses that
has led them all into the light of day.