Arizona state miner., 1926-04-17
The Power of the Press
The "POwer of the Press"


the mighty forces of the sea, the wind, flame
or steam.
The Power of the Press"
Manipulated, prOstituted to ulteriOr mo-
tives, thrOttled by public Indifference to it's
tremendous utility for the public good, the
weapon of the masses is allowed to become
the plaything of the schemer.
MOtivated by it's own useful purpose of
serving the public good, it is allowed by pub
lie Indifference to Wane, almost die, and
when that moment arrives, the Schemer, the
politician, the parasite on the body polite
lends it little nOurishment, and it's motives
become warped, misdirected- and the peo-
pies own weapon, polished and oiled by the
parasites becomes the instrument by which
the rights of the masses are subjugated to
the will of those who would denude the peO-
pie of their right of self government
While public opinion, pOt-bellied, pros
porous, cOmplacent, lends moral support
to the newspaper while the editor and
his family endure privatiOn for little money
with which to purchase life's necessities, the
politician bides his time, counting in the
hours of sweat dropping from the brow of
the harried publisher, that time when, in the
sheer desperation of self-preservation, the
newspaper must bow to fate and lend itself,
for a few dollars, to the will and the plans
of political schemers.
Too late after the people have been
fooled parted from their power, and the
political parasite is well fastened with deep
roots into the body polite, the masses, now
become gaunt, now thinking, bewail the lost
opportunity.
And SO goes the battle between public
sentiment as expressed, nOurished and kept
alive by the newspaper, and the money god,
all powerful, willy, watching each opportun-
ity to throttle the power of the Press when
welded in behalf of the people, and bend it
to the will of gold.
Freedom of Speech" Gree Public
Schools" Freedom of the Press" Equal
Justice for ALL all beautiful terms-plati-
tudes when left by the thoughtIess masses
to die for lack of sustenance
Wonderful foundation stones Of human
liberty when the Press is nOurished by public
good Wlll-backed by PUBLIC MONEY Civ
en- by individuals who can for the nOnce look
beyond their own immediate personal inter-
ests and see their own good in the Dublic
welfare.
Yet, the nnr~hor'% $50 will not adver-
Use because he believes it does not yield him
an immediate and direct result, the citizen
VINO has nothing to selr' and cOnseQuentlv
feels he should not spend money with his
newspaper, the man and the woman who "ds
not subscribe because the neighbor lets 17g
borrow his paper" these are the individuals
who allow the newspaper to die for lack Of
public support.
Nobody is to blame when newspaper
dying from lack Of public support has to be-
come the instrument of the money powers or
the political machines, except the public
Who is an editor, that he should be mar
tyr, with his family, to the public good, when
the public oot bellied, we'll fed, sleek, con-
tented, self-sufficient- that it owes
nothing to it's newspaper.
Who is an editor, that he should swoaA
m the agony of trying to wrest a rooaern Iis.
ing from the public purse, the while guard