| Show SERVED HIM RIGHT BAT LAKE CITY April 27 S Editors Herald The calling of a public journalist is one of the most important of any in the community and consequently is one of great responsibility He has no moral right whatever to employ his journal to wreak his personal spite upon any individual journal should be absolutely impersonal in its references of an unpleasant character charac-ter so far aa is necessary for its devotion devo-tion tj the pubic interests rather than to private malice No journalist is justified in any degree in maliciously ciously attacking individual The reckless journalist no matter how brilliant ia a moral leper his office is a peitbouse and hit paper is i a plagut erm in any community Splendid ability is an undoubted evil when malice has control of it The law against malicious newspaper news-paper slander and abuse of any kind ought to be stringently severe as it is in some wellgoverned countries The injured citizen who does not control a paper is at such an immense disadvantage disad-vantage compared with the man who ha the control of apaDerunleasa strict Jaw ui lib l strict and taiin tHfCU IUlU fully administered comes to the help of the former against the Inter that the recalessly vituperative journalist puts himself beyond tbe pale of pity no matter his ao No sympathy can be righteously fait or tbo DoYoung in Ills awful ending He courted and deserved it i The world is better oQ without him California is benefited by his death I His rcom in the community is infinitely nitely to be preferred to his company com-pany In his taking off all honorable men must rejoice though all must solemnly deprecate tae manner thereof Nor is he the only vicious and reckless journalist who ought togo to-go oil promptly in some way or other approved of God and man Pece on earth and good will to man come not through such JUSTICE |
