Bisbee daily review., 1906-08-15
USE OF A NEWSPAPER.

The different ideas which different peISons have as to what a newspaper is for can be known only to the edi- tor and publisher. Upon him focus the Illuminating advice, the gratuitous suggestions and the brave requests that would amuse and surprise the public if it could be made acquainted with their nature and character.
 It is through this medium that the editor is made aware of the diverse conceptions of various individuals re- garding the purpose of a newspaper; and it is astonishing to learn how very the true object of a public journal The prevalent notion of a newspaper seems to be that the two-fold purpose of its existence is personal accommodi.- tipn and personal resentment; that t is maintained to help it's friends and their schemes, and to even up it's grudges against the people who may not happen to like it or believe in it. IL is marvellous how few people there are who have any appreciation what ever of the essentially impersonal na- 7 ture of a newspaper, that is, applying the name newspaper in its accurate sense When such an understanding is revealed to the editor he compre- hends why it is that half century ami. versailles are called golden.
 How it is that so great a proportion of the people who find enough in newspaper to become attached to it and to look to it for instruction can regard 1t as the plaything which their attitude toward it commonly implies, is probably a mystery to a mighty small number of persons outside of the business. Unless the reader of this article is most too youthful to comprehend what he sees in print, he must have seen and heard again and again the confident and self-sufhcient individual who thinks that all that is needed to cause a newspaper to take this position or that, on any given question, is for him to merely put bis hat on and go and see the editor or publisher. It is curious how often this cocksure person visits the newspaper office when you recall how little good it does him, though you usually find a good bit of tenacity coupled with that kind of stupidity. The mere fact that it would be beyond the power of his imagination to even dream of run ming his business, whatever it may be, for the individual accommodation of or in the personal interest of some body else, does not help him to get hold of the idea that the editor of a newspaper feels the same way about his job.
 So when a newspaper feels con strained in the pursuit of it's duty ana it's plan of existence to do certain things which it would be impossible to leave undone without placing it! capital in jeopardy, it is instructive tt NiIhNSS IuC pCloOudl 1--Athe3 anu sentiment of particular individual who think they have been injured, an' who find justification for their ange in the plea that their interests hay suffered harm.
 Now, as editors and publishers CT joy and appreciate friends and wei wisbers quite as much as any othe class of people, it is source of grea felicitation to them to have learne that the requirement of good will il for newspaper, along the line ( duty It may mean the loss of friend in specific instances, but it also mean the gaining of others. It would nc be quite enough to say that it is . broad as it is long. It is much nor
 than that. For the newspaper that
 faithful to it's trust and is careful {
 it's selfrespect is always bound
 piease and satisfy vastly more nun
 Der of people that it bends. And hi
 again, is an incident rather than 2
 orject of the policy that works o
 that result.
 What a newspaper is for is to t
 and to teach what it conceiyes to
 tse truth. It is to benefit in the wi
 est possible sense the people who re
 it and who give it their support.
 is to make itself aa agent of civili;
 ton and progress. What a newspaT
 is for Is to do right and to keep otht