The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-07-19
Former Vice President Fairbanks
Denounces Men Who Attack
Public Officials, in Wig
orouS Manner.
ASSERTS ADVERTISING PAYS
Says Those Who Assail Public Ser
wants Who Are Faithful to Duty
Are Traitors-WouId Welcome
Any Just Criticism.

omaha, July 19.-"Men who will
wantonly and maliciously assail our
public servants-no matter what their
political faith may be. and who are
faithful to public duty-are traitors to
the state, no matter how lofty their
hypocritical professions may seem to
sound. $50 said Former Vice -presi-
dent Fairbanks, in the course of an
address before the advertising clubs
of America today.
"One of the marked features of re-
cent years has been the indiscriminate
abuse of men I'm public position. The
malodorous muck-raker flourishes for
time, but he has come to be an OBJ
ject of contempt, since his reckless
ness and insincerity have become man.
ifest. Abuse of the liberty of the
press. the attempt to malign other men
and by falsehood to destroy their
character, whether in private or pub
lie life, had come to be recognized as
of crimes.
mo public official, however high,
should be immune from just criticism
But they should not be subjected to
much of the abuse that Is heaped up
on them by the muckrakers and sensa-
tionalists, who are actuated only by
sordid merconary moHves or by some
other equally uhgenerous purpose far
short of the public interest.
There Is perhaps nothing more rep
rehensible than the loose Impeachment
OF the motives of the chief executive:
the downright misrepresentation Of
his acts: distortion of his record by
suppression of the truth or by pure
falsehood.
eff measures are devised i'm special
interest turn the light upon them and
their authors with unsparing severity
But we should differentiate with grea'
care the good from the evil: uphol6
those who are devoted to the faithful
and honest discharge of public duty
and smite without mercy those who
betray their public trust We should
not. however. heap upon all indiscrim-
mate abuse and thereby bring th'
government itself into contempt ane
disfavor: nor should we overempha-
size the wrong and underemphasz'
the good and thereby give as enron
eous impression of the true condition
of American life.
Socialism has been making some
headway in recent years. Its progress
no doubt, is due i'm a considerable de
gree to too general Impeachment OF
the good faith and the pft~iotlsm Of
those upon whose should,'-. by ou'
choice, rest for the time bein- the del
icate and difficult responsibilities o.
government.
Speaking of advertising. Mr. Fair
banks said:
Does advertising pay? has been the
theme of numerous and labored utter
ances and there are, no doubt remote
and obscure corners of the country
where It is still n vital, living ques-
ton: but, as n rule, 1t has become
academic. and many of the successes
we witness in the market place have
been achieved by the fullest recogni-
ton i'm practice OF the affirmative OF
the proposition. The best advertiser
and the best merchant are. synonymous
and the poorest advertiser Is usually
the one who finds himself in n court
of bankruptcy. or course. all advertis
ers do not succeed, but I think II wiz
be generally admitted that there are
fewer failures among them than among
those who do not possess the faculty
of bringing their business fairly and
favorably before the public"
Mr.. Fairbanks also condemned ex-
travagance In public and private al
fairs