Show MRS Ins hOOT BOOTH ON OX THE TIlE YELLOW PRESS As AIn n general rule people do not have occasion to find tind much fault with the tho statements of ot Mrs Irs Maud Bal Bal- Booth She is a n. very VO wise vise little littie woman with much of her r fathers father's k keenness enness of or perception and a all l of or her fathers father's courage And when she says that the pub pub- JI tI il of the details of f crime has tended to the Increase of or crime crimp she sho Is well within the he limits of tho the reasonable We Ve want to go JO on record as os claiming a general freedom freedom free free- dom from that pernicious newspaper habit so far as us The Republican Is is' concerned It has seemed to us that the Ideal newspaper will tom he bo something like tho the manner of the ideal gentleman You would not expect him to re retain re- re tam tain In his memory the lie offensive things s that had been thrust on in his sight You would not expect him to recount them with vivid 1 description of detail in the tho homes he vl visited You would not feel teel that he was WB likely to pick th the worst out of a days day's happenings and store storo his thought with that And a newspaper should be as clean as a n. man Filthy newspapers can h bo be made only h by filthy men Clean newspapers can be made mado only by clean n men Newspapers Newspapers News News- papers pape's go Into the homes They go everywhere No one can know hums whore where the they will tIll be read read read-or or by whom And the obligation Is on the newspaper mal makers rl to put In them nothing that lint would offend that would debase that would tend to the lie perpetration of crime or would even o stock tho the memory of or men and women and children with offensive recitals Is And It Is not riot necessary Thero There are more good things than bad things In tho the world There Is moro virtue than vice more honesty than knavery knaver more more grand good work than devilment It has been tire tho purpose of The Tho Republican lican t to bo be guided by these considerations And as we have loved the people to whom our paper has gone we have tried to keep It so clean that they would be buttered I a we weare C Caro instead o of harmed by tho the continued n th them n. n association with aro are bettered b by tho the Mrs Airs Booth is right rho The newspaper ne can an 1191 or Wish lh I-lh hr her r W can hurt the lie morals of a 11 nation And Antl ve VC till tho atil for tor speed In h her r work for or a cleaner ck-aner pr pre press S 'S redemption of men S 5 5 l I. I I |