The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-02-24
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One on the Banks.
It has not been so many decades
since the banks considered It very
grave injustice TO be compelled to
have their statements printed in Il
newspaper. and the peesidents would
hold up their hands with horrer when
you asked for advertising natter
Now, since the people have been
aroused 10 the grave ana dangerous
customs praoticed by the bankers So
/ lfhe great reserve cities. the most
humble reporter can Interview Tho biz
geat banker aud the cashiers insist
on getting the advertising matter on
the very first page wholly surrounded
hy reading matter
How many think the public has
been worsted BY the change?
Pur,oity the Cure.
II aslSed to offer the greatest pana-
cea for all governmental Ills. one
wonld Of necessity say Publicity"
It has been the sharp knife of the
surgeon In driving ont the fakir aud
the charlatan. Il is too strong for
even the confidence man TO Withstand.
and u has cured more drunkards than
all other remedies combined.
/ Usea WIN discretion and by men
knowing the full responsibility know
| III you please, that erratic application
! spells ruin for the innocent, il viii
enforce laws, stop municipal county
district and state graft, and even
make United States senator SIT uI
and take notice.
What One Editor Did.
Less than eight years ago q young
New York staff writer was elevated
to the managing EDITORS desk OF 3
great New York newspaper. He was
not sensational in the common appli
cation Of the term Not for the mere
beat did he permit his co-workers
10 start scandal, but he systematit
cally started crusade.
"Vetsed Rights champions howled
cursed, then walled and begged, but
the cold array on Iacts presenlea grew
larger each day Tho habit spread
and others took mp the task. The
men who had felt they were above
the searchlights of Investigation com
menced to fight bsck, and We're
astounded to ascertain there was moth
ing TO fight. The Systematic contest
was not offering remedies, nor was il
backed with politicians seeking office
II was but the cold, inanimate state
ment OF newspapers, telling what the
lallherto great were doing.
stock deals were described, tehine
how men put up a dollar and were is
sued forty. an hundred or a thousand
shares OF stock therefor The history
was told without comment
soon macniues commenced to ge
ont Of gear Here and there 'states
man" was retired by request OF his
constituents; not few municipal
tkiugs were indicted by grand iuries
and, horror of all horrors, the great
Insurance money manipulaiors, start
ed to Europe earlier than ever beior'
In the season,
Some of Che travellers have not ye
returned. Here aud there srea
banker was compelled 10 leave hil
family. his clubs aud trips and tak'
lup "a line OF work with the warden @
some penitentiary as instructor.
No one knows when the crusade vii
end No one doubts II has created
revolution OF sentiment and an be
cause a man. not forty years of ase
became imhued with the idea an mel
are equal and their public acts worthy
Of being told 20 the readers ~ hi
newsnaper-
lie had no pets, no ono was power
tNl enough to stop the little chronlel
lnc OF the truth aud because the move
, ment was lsared and pared of ~ronl
purpose. il stabbed to death mnnicipa
hrigmdaee. and. growing as must al
efforts 90 be- right and iair boeam
. cyclonic in speed and power. sweeI
, line United States senators from thei
positions. and filed the iails with me-
WHO haa been guilty Ol breaking al
laws.
Ana b6cause Of this. It must be ad
mlited thai publicity guided by expel
fenced pnrVeyofs, Is the most deadl
{ weapon to use against wrong eve
/ Though IL be organized and for,ihe
sbr precedent