Bisbee daily review., 1906-01-19

nance" found some aid and comfort in every direction except. among. the newspapers. Every journal in New York stood by the Investigating com mittee and promptly published the facts developed without fear or favor.
 In the recent contest in Philadelphia
 against a corrupt political ring every
 daily except one rose above falsified
 party lines and assisted to secure an
 honest administration of city affairs.
 Publicity is recognized as a power
 ful weapon and safeguard. says the
 St. Louis Globe-Democrat. but unless
 based on the sort of integrity that is indomitably true to right principles. and quick to fight for them. publicity
 would work on the side of evil. If lobbyists could control the press as easily as they engage interruptions legal help. or that of veral legisla- tors. the people would look in vain for a champion outside of their own col lective strength. h the newspapers there has been only one voice on the Insurance question, and that is for a thorough reform. together with a demand for the punishment Of all who have violated their trust. A jour nal that attempted to defend the in- surance crookedness, or obscure ,the issue. would lose its character, if it had any. '
 The wise men who framed the Con stitution of the United States took pains to place a bulwark around the liberty of the press. They knew by experience. as well as inherent in telligence, that the liberty of the press is vital part Of the liberty of the people. Conspirators against the peo- pie would always corrupt the press, if they could, and. failing in that, they would gag it. or wreak upon 1t the spite of baffied and detected dishon- esty. The press in this country is an institution of the people and, in the long run. is what they choose it shall be. Yet it is also commercial en- terprise and might, temporarily at least, depart from the high ideals it has hitherto maintained and work a vast mischief before the people could apply correctives. No material ten dency of that kind has appeared. The people are quick to perceive any way ering in favor of special interests, and the paper that exhibits it soon hears from the public, and in effective methods of protest. But in justice to the press it must be said that such of lenders are extremely few. The Am erican press is sound to- the core, and deals with circumstances as they arise. in thoroughly honest spirit.
 '.In some parts of continental Flu rope it is said that the financial de- partments published in the journals are prepared by speculators and pro motors. That system is an instance of the dangers connected with press that descends from the high level of it's true mission. The life insur- ance revelations in this country are but an opening chapter in popular movement to strike down the power of golden graft and assert the rights of the masses in financial and busi- ness relations. Trusts and monopo- lies prey upon the multitude in many other shapes. Congress and the state
 legislatures must wrestle with the problem, for the people are aroused and resolved that justice shall he done. In regard to the full, energetic support of the press the people have no misgiving. American newspapers are marvel in cheapness combined with excellence. They go everywhere and are read everywhere. There are elsewhere no such close newspaper students as those of the United States and nowhere else are the lahors of the newspapers in behalf of the peo- pie as unswervingly zealous aud in corrupibly high in tone.