Show DELE DELEVAN VAN SMITH SMITHIS IS NOT ALARMED Indianapolis News Will Con Continue Continue Continue to Print Things Ac According According According cording to Its Custom Indianapolis Feb 18 The News pub publishes publishes publishes lishes the following statement concerning the Panama canal Indictments The Issue presented by the indictments is of course one for the court In regard to that little or nothing need be said But there is a wider Issue concerning which we think a good deal will be said Per Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps haps it is needless to say that the course of the News will win be in no way influenced or affected by what has happened We WG shall continue to discuss public questions on their merits as In the past and to criticise public men without political or partisan artisan bias This is the phase of ot the question that most concerns the public It has a right to know that the functions of a free tree and independent newspaper will not cease to tobe tobe tobe be performed and also to know that no personal element will be allowed to ob obtrude obtrude trude itself In any of the criticisms that we may feel tell called on to make We Ve shall not be coerced Into silence nor tempted Into unfairness Believing that the great principle of freedom free om of the press is at stake we must do what we can enn to uphold it No more Important service than this can be performed by a newspaper espe especially daIly at this date The public to which alone the News ac acknowledges acknowledges acknowledges any obligation may feel sure that this paper will continue to serve Its Interests Interest as It sees lees them To sum up we shall shan print the news ne and tell the truth troth about it as it is given us to sea see the truth |