Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-11
his two bands anybody that onered to

bride him.
But all the time he was bribing him
self. Before he died he was completely
and heartily in the camp Of the public
enemy as any kept newspaper prosti-
tute in the land. With all the force
Of his ability he was fighting on the
side that he was wont in the old days
to attack bribed by his own money.
There are others like him. but he
happened to be the most conspicuous
Illustration. The thing is perfectly nat
uraE More and more newspapers be-
come purely commercial enterprises;
they are conducted for profits and for
nothing else. Well. what are you 60
ing to do with the profits? You can't
dig holes in your cellar and bury them.
Naturally You invest them in good
sound, lines Of securities, representing
solid business. Yes. And all the good,
sound lines Of business in the country
are either owned or controlled or dom
mated by the one group Of the Central
Interests that control the government
and prey upon the people. II you com
bat them you combat your own invest
ments. Want to do that? think not.
You see the thing, is both Inevitable
and irristible. You can hardly ind an
investment in these days that has any
promise Of returns and will not bring
you into contast and sympathy with
the Central Interests. Therefore. it is
either one thing or the other. If your
newspaper makes money and profits
sweet you into line, and If it doesn't
then you are swept the same direction
In the manner to be told next.
3. Newspapers that are financed by
the Interests.
Every year newspaper publishing
becomes more and more expensive.
You may have noticed that in the last
fifteen or twenty years very few daily
newspapers have been started in our
great cities. Although the population
Of those cities may have been doubled
or more, the number Of newspapers
tends to decrease and not to increase.
Well, here is the explanation for this
singular fact No one but multi-mil-
( lionaire can start a daily paper now
and even multi-millionaire cannot
keep one afloat without the assistance
of the money power. Take any news
paper in the dull months Of summer.
The receipts fro hthe advertising and
sales fall far short Of the expenses;
the paper must go on, it cannot stop;
it cannot materially cnrtail those daily
expenses that tend constantly to be-
come greater. To get through the slack
season 1t must have accommodations,
| which means ready money: it can get
those accommodations from but one
source, for the Central interests con-
troll the banks and the money supply.
It is therefore thrown into their pow
er; they have their clutch upon its
very heart; conduct your newspaper
| upon safe. sane and conservative.
grounds or you get no money and go
to the wall. The editorial gentleman
may rave and the public imagine a
vain thing; in the business Office,
where the paper really lives. there Is
mo hallucination about it and before
long the whole establishment is sail
: ing along ON course laid down by
the Interests.
Just how this works in practice was
shown recently in the case Of Hamp-
toms Magazine. in New York. It was
warned not to publish an article at
lacking Mr.. Morgan and the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Rail-
road. 1t disregarded the warning and
went ahead with the article. Immed-
lately afterward it found that it could
not. borrow q dollar at any bank in
New York upon any security whatso-
ever. It was in reality prosperous and
making profit, but to navigate It
must have odations; for these
it must go to the banks; and after the
word has been given out from head
quarters there was not bank in the
country that would accept any of its
paper no matter how endorsed nor
how backed with unquestionable Sc,
curities. The result was that the ma
gazine could not go on and its owners
were obliged to dispose to it. The ex-
plicit threat had been made to them
that they would be ruined: this was
the manner in which the threat was
carried out. What q tremendous pow
er is here! How absurd to speak Of /!
free press when over the head Of
every publisher Is held such . coer-
cion! Print what We want You to
print or down yon go. The censorship
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