The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-02-19
The Congressional
Record Must Use
The Blue Pencil
Some Serious Reflections On Con
aressmen May Constitute Grim
lnaI Libel Of the Gov
eminent.
SECRET SERVICE MEN.


For which the president rebuked by congress.
This paper sided with president
We commended member of congress had
feel himself included reflection body and
further of that body
to lend all possible aid the president smoking the crooks
should they find themselves sitting among crooks
We believed the presidents because of the fact
that there have been crooks the the United States
exposed arrested and convicted.
Indictments by the United States grand jury
Washington against Joseph NJ Van Hamm and
Robert Lyman of New York proprietor and editors of the New
York World and Deavan Smith Chester r. Williams,
of the indianapolis News criminal libel in with
the publication of charges of irregularities the purchase by the
United States of the Panama canal property
Bench issued for the of the Ave
dicted
Most everyone is familiar with the
The New York World into possession of story the
that the Panama canal purchased by the govern
from American syndicate that had acquired the
FLOR purpose turning this handsome
profit
was charged Taft of the pre
deneec Douglas Robinson, brohern-law President
Roosevelt interested n this American syndicate
The of William Nelson Cromwell used having
acted for the syndicate and the OF Morgan
also found the because the paid by the
his banking
The all mentioned here figure the indictment of the
newspaper having vlihed
ton with this criminal libel of the government.
The World published story worth.
The charges printed CHARGES facts
These charges serious in their nature that the pubca
ton of them demanded by The World other to
have into possession of them.
It the DUTY of The World pint them under its oblga-
ton to the public (and the government newspaper
From the standpoint of the Pulitzer policy and the Pulitzer
conception of the real the for The
World particular regard the publication of these charges AS
its duty.
The World investigation of the charges by
gress which demand congress failed to hear
Four months have elapsed the charges made public
and while they have been they certainly have been
dsproven.
1T HAS NOT YET BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THE
CHARGES THE WORLD PRINTED ARE NOT TRUE.
government criminay beed the
officer of the has been used by The World
while attempting to do that government service.
the libel of officer constitutes libel of the government
has The World beled than President
Roosevelt when he that officers stand fear
of the service
Can government beed only when its president says
Is libeled it be beed we'll by its president?
The Times contends that The World has beled the
whole proceeding will farce
The World HAS beed the government however President
Roosevelt has also than OCCASION and would ad
the Congressional Record henceforh from the conviction Of
these indicted look we'll to its contributions
from the White House
charges printed by World that the
had been held up
consider such thing impossible
The held than occasion
No officer of the government had
slider himself reflected that charge and said of the
honest the president should have been the first
offer The World all the assistance his smoking
the rascaly found in the Panama DEAL
left for The World ask alone however WHO
GOT THE MONEY!"
That question still unanswered which the
answered.
only question which country particularly
which end be answered there let have
early trial of the indicted