Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-09-30
NEVADA NEWsPAPERS.

papers throughout the State to fol.
low the ra her dubious example OF
the San Francisco papers IN airing to
the public the petty grievances and
personal feelings Of individuals co.,
uected with the papers in question.
We'submit the proposition as in
disputable that newspapers are a
public enterprise and that the public
rs such. is not concerned with the
personal relations OF the individual
proprietors or edit )rs Of sheets that
they read for the purpose Of obtain
ing news and inrorma ION.
A newspaper is presumed to be
handled for the beuetit of the reading
public, for their enligh' eminent on
matters OF general interest to them
all. and when its columns are prosti
tuted to the publ hing Of private
quarrels, of senseless vagaries and OF
matters of purely personal nature,
it becomes no longer Of public value
as measure Of general progress, but
degenerates to the unenviable posi-
ticn OF daily personal essay Of the
school boy nature on the private
rights, and insensate claims to rights,
Of certain pers ms interested.
We care not whether the form of
such "ntter be editorial. local or tel
ephunic, it cannot claim Ihe interest
and does not deserve to claim the Iu-
terest Of those who sub, cribe to it for
reasons not at all akin to such bick-
erings.
For many years the press Of Me-
vada has been singularly fee from
this kind OF business. and just as
singularly unanimous in it's efforts to
publ 3h such it"ms as we're material
to the community, and we had cLer'
ished the apparently uelusive hope
that it would remain uncontaminated
throughout.
We do not wish to be understood
in this rs holding that the private
actions of private individuals or the
public actions Of any individual
should remain undisclosed, so long
as those actions concern the public
and the community in general. but
when they are handled i'll the col
unns of would-be news paper,
simply as a balm to the wounded
pride or narrowed feelings of the
publisher, then we say they should
be treated with the contempt that
they deserve.
SO far as the INDEPENDENT ls con-
cerned, we take no notice of inuendo
further than to consign it to the
waste basket, 30 that whatever of it is
published with intent to hit us is
labur lost. We fight no enemies
from behind the bush through the
medium OF this paper and take no
note Of shafts which are shot aim-
lessly into the air, but Whenever an
opponent is mluden to come out into
the open with his ammunition, he is
free to do 30, and we will make an
effort to keep him busy while Oh the
field. We shall, however. keep per-
sonallties entirely out of the paper
and defend only when the question Mt
issue concerns the public, oi which
we trust we are i'll some degree repre-
sentative.
THIS paper, as a newspaper, has no
war to make against anyone as pri-
vate party and will not concern it.
self in its columns over the vaporings
OF idle chatting. We stand ap0u the
proposition that nothing is worthy of
consideration in newspaper that
does not affect the news-readlng
people, and that is not worthy of
comment even ther when il :, not
brought fairly and squarely to the
fore.
We further take no official notice
rs Il news organ o: matter which is
published by the advantage : OF our
absence and the absepce Of the pro.