The Detroit times., 1909-02-19
The { Congressional
Record Must Use
The Blue Pencil
eoms Serious Reflections On Con-
0rsssmen May Constitute Grim
inaI Libel Of the Gov
eminent.
SECRET SERVICE MEN.

SECRET SERVICE MEN
For which the president was rebuked by congress
This paper sided president.
We commended that member of congress had any
reason to feel himself included reflection that body and
that the duty of the honest members OF that BODY
lend all possible aid the president smoking out the crooks
should they find themselves sitting among crooks
We believed the presidents ground because of the fact
that there have congress the United States
exposed. arrested and convicted.
Indictments were returned bv the United States grand jury
Washington against Joseph Pulitzer Caleb M Van Ham and
Robert H. Lyman of New York proprietor and editors OF the New
York World r. Williams
the publication of charges Irregularities the purchase by the
United States of the Panama canal property
Bench for the OF the hve
suicted
Almost everyone S familiar with the
The New York World into possession of story to the
the Panama purchased by the govern
syndicate that had acquired the property
tor the of turning this country " handsome
profit
charged Charles Taft half brother of the pres
denteect Douglas Robinson, botherinlaw of President
Roosevelt interested in this American syndicate.
The of William Nelson Cromwell used having
attorney syndicate Morgan
also found the because the paid by the
turned his banking house
The all mentioned here figure the indictment OF the
newspaper having vhed in
ton with this criminal libel of the government
The World published this story for what it worth
The charges contained printed facts
charges their that the pubica
ton of them demanded by The World other to
have into possession of them.
of World print them under its oblga
ton the public (and the government newspaper.
From the standpoint of the Pulitzer policy and the Pulitzer
conception the real purpose of the for The
World particular regard the publication of these charges AS
its duty
The investigation of the charges by con-
eress which demand congress failed to hear
the charges made public,
and while they have been they certainly have not been
disproven.
1T HAS NOT YET BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT THE
CHARGES THE WORLD PRINTED ARE NOT TRUE
government criminally the
officer 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 hbeed the than President
Roosevelt he charges that its officers congress stand fear
of the service
Can the be libeled only when its president it
Il libeled it be ibeed well by its president?
The Times The World lbeled the
and believes that the whole proceeding will farce
The World HAS beed the however President
Roosevelt has than and would adj
the Congressional Record henceforh from the conviction of
these indicted look well its contributions
from the White House
charges printed by World the government
had been held up
consider such thing impossible
The has held than occasion
No honest officer of the government had to
slider himself reflected that charge and said of the
congress- the president should have been
offer The World all the assistance his smoking
rascalty found in the Panama DEAL
It has been left for The World ask alone however WHO
GOT THE MONEY!"
That question still unanswered which the country
answered.
only question which country particularly
interested which there. let
early trial of the indicted
From Another Point of View !