Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1910-05-06
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II md f-ssy That Is what you
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Object in assOciating together is to
improve the press
Those having power should ex-
ercise it Justly, kindly and mode
rately. That makes their acts all
the more effective.
II measure my words in saying
your power for good is great.
Your power for evil is not as great
as some may think. That is -es-
pecially so when any of you deliber-
ately try to do evil by falsehoOd or
mere scandal.
1.-The public official who tries his
best to do right, and who knows
how to do right (for both these
essential things do not always exist
in the same public Officially cannot
be hurt by you. Some may abuse
him, even lie and forge about him,
but they are powerless to hurt him.
You can either make nor unmake
al honest and competent Official.
THE press as q whole, is just to
public officials When the election
is over, its wholesome wish is to see
the n elected given good govern
ment and to help him do o In
that just frame of mind you often
forbear much. This is rue of all
honest and unselfsh publishers and
editors But if the publisher or
editor be himself a perennial Office
seeker he may desire to assassinate
every one he thinks in his way and
then, alas, what a disgrace he
brings upon journalism. 1t is pain
full TO mention such exceptions, and
to speak of their acts, but we should
not shrink from doing it in a kindly
spirit and for the sake of good.
You expect me to be plain and not
abate a jot or a title. A news
paper proprietor or editor who is
simply bent on cutting the Goals is
an awful spectacle. In no nook or
DIT Of his head or his heart. is
there a slightest sense of truth or
justice.
LET me illustrate by mentioning
n thing out of many. AS late as
the fifteenth of this month, w. r.
Hearst printed in his principal
newspaper here the facsimile of a
draft on the treasury Of the city for
$4S, 900 with headlines and an
article attributing such draft and
the expenditure to the present
mayor. The headlines of the
article assert | fixed the award and
amount and paid it and the draft
OF the treasurer is printed to prove
it. But when you look at the draf,
rs given in the article (how few
people scrutinized it Closely, yo,
perceive the date of it is left blank
have brought ii here as printed IL
this newspaper TO show il to you.
and here it is. When you look al
the original draft, which / have also
brought here for you TO see you sec
the date of it at the top in large
letters and figures as December 81.
1909, which is before the present
city government came in. When
you examine the said original
further you see il also bears plainly
the date audited and vouched which
established the claim as a legal
liability of the city, was recorded
in the comptroller office, December
20, 1909. This date is also omitted
in the newspaper copies as you per-
ceive. In plain words two state
prison felonies, namely forgery and
classification of a public document.
were committed in the eargerness
Of this publisher to wrong the