The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-15
PREDICTS PERFECT NEWSPAPER

Editor New York Evening Journal:
 Sir read with some interest your brilliant editorial tc--~-.-~ MT. Andrew i Carnegie, the author of triumphant isVulgarity. and the proposal for an en- i dowed newspaper.
 once remarked, that all the facts will
 always control the action, then govern. { Tnent in the last analysis. is nothing i more or less than the organization of 1 intelligence or news. Grant this. and 1 it follows that the ultimate form of democratic government is certain to be
 government by newspaper. No other l outcome is logical.
 1 Mr. Leupp complains in magazine that the newspapers are losing their 1 influence. MT. Leupp is wrong. The l newspapers are only coming into their l own. Up to the present the newspa-
 per chiefs, speaking by and large, have 1 been intent upon developing and per
 fecting the physical side of their busi- l telephone, the linotype, the wireless 1 and the perfecting press, friction on
 the physical side of the trade has been lessened to the point of ease. It re- nains to bring the mental direction alongside of the physical advance. This. all in good time. will be brought about.
 Talk about yellow journalism! l Once intelligence is thoroughly organ ized, once the truth is entirely freed, the newspaper that reports life as it deserves to be reported will take a l saffron hue that will make the '@yel- 1oW'' newspapers of today seem mild
 and usual. No, sir, so far as journal l ism goes we are as yet in the twilight of the gods. What is the Journalists work. any way? What is the reality of his trade? Is he preacher or bleater, whose function is to cack1e of doing things for the benefit of the dear pee pul2 Or is his function that of col lectlng and selling news, or intelligence or truth at a profit to persons who wish that commodity?
 | When Editor Stead stood in a Lon I don police deck to answer to a trump 1 ed up charge, but in reality because
 he had published truths that blistered
 while they blessed, he said in answer to interrogations that he printed what l he cid in order ito help poor girls 1 When he said that he said the thing
 that was not, and so denied Christ 1 Cenfronted with the old legalities, it was MT. Stead'S opportunity, as it 1 should have been his pleasure and his | privilege, to have risen proudly in the
 prisoners dock and said: My business truth for a profit. What is your bus iness?''
 1 But no, poor man, it was not in him. l He lacked the sense of reality and the
 ina ginative, insight to wing for world wide flight the message for which hu- 1 tendon were on him, but the skirts of
 happy chance brushed by. him. and he l he didn't grip the reality of his own ! business, his case broke down and he 1 went to jail for year-and very prop Popularity 51 and the appfova1 of hon !! est men and women.= together with his own self-respect. are the by-products of the Journalists trade. They are the by-products of any trade But it should never be forgotten (and it can not be too often insisted upon) that the Journalists work is that Of col l lecting and selling the commodity call ed truth for profit. When the truth | is co1ored, when the brand is adulter- ated, the Journalist the job ceases l to be a good workman, and invites the contempt of. his craft.
 The newspaper which bowls the clos est to life, which comes the nearest to reporting the truth, will, other things equal, achieve the widest circulation and reap the larger profit: And thus ciety is, in the ultimate analysis, the counting-room test. The bigger the truth the bigger the sensation. the digger the sensation the larger the sale, and the larger the sale the bigger the profit. Thus truth brings it's own
 reward, as sun-dawn does the day.
 nent that government is only the or
 ganization of truth. of intelligence. of
 news This new perception is all
 around us everywhere, but as yet only
 rartial or half formed. Any refer
 ence to the force of public opinion inn
 rlies a new system, which may be
 ion is a corrective force, just in pro-
 portion @as news is exact or responsible.
 A new idea Gntegrity in news han -d1ing) is imported into commerce,
 which far outruns the idea of mere
 veracity.
 Perhaps in time eCwho knows?) we
 tribe have long seen, that in the news
 paper business the interest of the
 newspaper and the general interest. or
 interest, of the public, are not antag-
 onistic-that, in fact. they are iden-
 t1ca1. Reflect moment When
 that truth is universally accepted and
 rooms and editorial rooms it will be
 the end of Utopias. Then the b1eater