The Detroit times., 1909-02-26
NEWSPAPERS AIM
SHOULD BE FOR DECENCY
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vestment frauds. opportunities TO buy
"Buhble Preferred or pint bottles Oh
rect from Ponce de Icons fountain
OF Youth' have appeared immediately
adjoining or directly following editor
ials entitled Let the Good Work 90
On -
lie may have added his heartiest IN
dorsement To the national movement
for conserving the health OF the people
ESPECIALLY the splendid aud unselil 10
night Tor the overthrow OF the whltc
plague. yet his newspaper may con-
tinue To make Il possible for iinpostcrs
10 fatten at the expense or the count
less victims Of consumption ny oHcr-
ing alleged certain cures for them 10
grasp at in their hopelessness ana de-
SPAR.
Patriot Pcnman may say. and mean
a. speed the day whom child life VIII
be protected against Industrial greed
sud glazing evils of divorce and race
higher standard OF morality in the
family" Yet his own paper may week
after week carry into the home the
poisonous and abomipable private med
| ical phraseologv that despoils youthful
| Imaginations OF their purity and facili-
tates the very practices that threaten
ultimate race extinction.
Wrong sanctioned by Long Usage.
Yet Patriot Penman would not be a
worker OF lniqulty deliberately ~.
has gone on following the practice that
had obtained in newspaper ofhces Tor
time immcmorial. and he never stopped
to consider the ethical aspect OF The
thing He has been so powerfully busy
preaching righteousness TO the multi
tude that he has overlooked the de-
tail or being strictly righteous him.
self
newspaper publisher in this matter.
Being in the world. Patriot Penman is
of tho world in his method OF getting
on. He, too. has heard the golden
| hucIe call To he up and accommodating
Get the money" has been the new
! worlds reveille throughout the con-
structive age Of its progress. get IL
untnintedly. II possible, but get H."
But now Patriot Pcnman has heard
| this signal die away In mournful ca
drnces. He has chronlclcd the undoins
| ~ Insurance and railway presidents.
| bankers. packers. food and drug manu-
| facturors. postal sharks, matrimonial
| bureaus and race track gamblers.
His eyes have seen the coming OF
the glory OF n better day In business.
and he has proc laimed IL toyfully. lie
has heard the call 10 n higher personal
proved II heartily.
Now. having put his hand to the
ethical pen. Patriot Penman. publisher
must not turn back. BEFORE he can
cast any stones at currcnt inlquitics
he must be without sin himself. As
righteousness must be Individual be
NJ the pCoplc's liberties must keep IT
self unspotted from the world.
Three Rensons FOR Immediate Reform
In Al, crtIsing.
For one reason. because Patriot Pen
man. Publisher, processes 10 he some
thing more than cOmmercialist. lie
aspires to- b. public educator. and as
such gets a special rate from the pos
tai department and seat on the plat
form at the Fourth OF July celebration
For another reason. because IL IL tie
answer of the rich malefactors when
80 ertalscn in fault that they are
only dong what everybody else would
do IL they had chance. They are
all after the unearned dollar" they
say. whether II be rebates, tarln fav-
ors. or any form Of tainted wealth"
II is Patriot Penman's mission %
show by the spotlessness OF his page
that this indictment. however true II
has been m tho past. is now false,
that ne has tasted and seen that IL Is
good To know some patrons publish
~ does not want. some earnings nc
reuounces, spmo methods he scorns for
principle's sake. Until this become
the test OF commercial i7tegrity we
shall .oll short OF real national great
ness and fail ~ enduring fame.
For the thlrd reason. Patriot Pen
man. Publisher. should make hnetC a.
take STOP with tic new ethical order
while Vot the opportunity oncrs 10 -,
so voluntarily Coi1pulsory righteous
rcss will never eNalt tho press OF IT,,
country. Being good because one Is
compelled TO be suggests a capacity
FOR rvI that Is FAR from rcassurin K
Van wonder what would happen ~ the
Ina oluutarily Vrtuous should break
How unnitely more credltable to
Patriot rcumnn, Publisher. how much
more in consonaucc with his profes
sIons % lamp to the feet Of the pub
lIr n ne should srourgcl his columns
Uf I've siriatcr the suspicious, IN,
fraudulent aud tie pesiticntial before
Thsrci,y holding tho press true a.
its splendid traditional place In q dem
ocracy. ;-Ee 20 tho dignity and indis'
pcnsabllity that gained Tor II the pro