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Show ABOUT NEhJFAFERS. JVlya (Ok1a. I'loqeer: Tho hjfjticst, fea'rTess,f6iirageous' newspaper "unavoidably "un-avoidably makes enemies. Some people peo-ple have strange conceptions of thu newspaper business. A clever exchange ex-change lilts itoir in this wise: "And so n newspaper makes enemies A single, unfortunate line may wipe out the already faint recollection of a hundred hun-dred nice things It may have said about 11 man; a single fnilure to be guided by the judgment of a politician Instead of his own conscience may make that politician the editor's enemy, en-emy, regardless of thu years during which tha paper may have contributed to the advancement, of that politician; and even though a piper may have for years been a leading factor In booming Its town this service may Instantly be' forgotten If It offends once as to disregarding dis-regarding the ideas of some as to public pub-lic policy. The wonder, therefore. must not be as to the number of enemies ene-mies a newspaper has, but as to Its friends being so many. That a newspaper news-paper of character has many friends, surely It Is a tribute to the Intelligence of Its readers, who are broad enough to rcall.e that one may occasionally err and yet be worthy of conlldence. Krall.ing this, the sensible newspaper man goes ahead." |