The suburban citizen., 1900-12-22
WANT AN IDEAL PAPER.
Or. Parkhurst Says Endowment Fund
VIII BE Established.

VIII BE Established.
DR.. Parkhurst makes the statement
that a syndicate Of wealthy men has
under consideration the establishment
in New York City Of an "ideap news
paper He declares that an endowed
theatre is also a possibility for New
York.
There are those" ne said "who
are anxiously considering the matter
Of establishing a journal for the pur-
pose of telling the truth and sufii-
ciently capitalizing it, so that it will
have no trouble in telling the truth.
There is also being considered the
matter Of establishing an endowed
theatre
''It has come to be a fact in this
city that a theatre as rule cannot
be made to pay unless there is more
or less of that in it which is objection
able. The only way a frst-class thea
tire can be maintained is by its being
endowed
1.-The same applies to the average
newspaper.
THE paper now under consideration
would cover all the ground covered by
the New York papers. 1t would be
equal to any one of them in resources.
1t would be foolish to undertake to
run paper in any other way. Itwould
be dead before it was born.
THE papers now are run on a busi-
ness plan. They are not leading the
public. Some papers are run for po-
litical ends, because with them poll
tics is going to put money in the till.
"The ideal paper would be a paper
with just as much enterprise as our
most enterprisng papers at present
have.
1T must have the news. You take
market reports. In all papers they
have to be truthful. Now. when the
same truthfulness is observed with re-
gard to other matters as is observed
with market reports, then people are
going to know what they are reading.
partisan papers will give you only
what is favorable to their side upon
every political question They will not
give you the rest. Telling only part
of the truth is often equivalent to tell
ing a whole lie. 1t may conceal that
which it is essential you should know
in order to get at the whole truth.
Telling half suppresses the rest.
Partisan papers labor to tell you
only half the truth. When / say par-
tisan papers, it may not be simply in
regard to matters of politics, it may
be in regard to other matters just as
well. Wherever a paper is run for the
promotion of an interest it will hold
back just as much as will stand in the
way Of the promotion of that interest,
whether it be politics or whether it be
business.
But let me tell you what mean
The people lead the press, rather than
the press the people. The partisan pa
pers are taking the position that they
are with regard to a broad spirit and
a broadmlnded candidate in the COM
ing municipal campaign because the
people are going to demand it and the
papers know it.
eve have papers here in New York
that to-day are fighting Plat with all
their might. Not a great while ago
they were standing up for him. Plat
is the same now that he was then
How much influence have such papers
with the people?
''Such things show that the papers
are willing to shift their sails accord
ing to the wind that is blowing, and
indicate that they are not animated
by truthfulness and an irreversible
moral impulse
"What we want is a newspaper with
a high moral purpose, which is un-
shakable and unpurchasable, and then
it will be a power. What we want is
a newspaper with convictlons-con-
victlons that are deep enough to run
down underneath below the stratum
Of present circumstances "a paper
whose tone will not be affected either
by its small or great patronage."-New
York World.