Show tOME SOME NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE I 3 R for the isthmian canal anal commission Omi corn com iT A i mission is under uncle arrest in New York for selling I a opy of the tl report of If f the commission bc be r iT wa vu s presented to t o lie lw president The young man v ith stealing itea Ug government papers anti and antiL is j jJ J L 1 v hii hi life ife ruined by a felons brand Never can he hold a position I i i of trust or confidence so 80 long as he lives he must be i satisfied to remain in obscurity Newspaper enterprise is responsible for the sten tell stenographers downfall all A New York use ex cx extremely I treb anxious to soure a scoop on that report To land la it meant prestige it meant a chance han c to boast for fora a week l some tOme new sensation sen came up in hi the news new Little pecuniary advantage could be hoped for fordie because die the sed tales of the paper would not amount V t to as much as was paid the clerk for his crime crime So the enterprising newspaper went out after the report and got it The scoop was wu a two days won I der dei in Park Row Bow It resulted in an immediate e investigation investigation gation gabon by the state department Finally F it resulted in the arrest of the stenographer The Herald cannot sea see anything to commend in a form of i J paper en enterprise that results in i the mining of a j i ing ig mans life Enterprise like are Le ire is a good thia in reasonable I limitations but also iho lk h luce lire fire it frequently all an I I duo due bounds and causes inestimable le harm barn I The TM newspaper paper proprietor who will win procure pr re the I commission of f a crime Mime in ill order to secure an item of f news ia infinitely iW worse than the individual ual us who commits the crime The demand of the pub II lie lic for news is insatiate but it does not justify ful procedures It be argued r oed that the public is re Ye responsible responsible for the offense offen e of which h the Ac New York 1 paper has been guilty guilt It will sill be he said that the public must musi have the te news s regardless r of the manner in which it is obtained that the tIle end justifies the means Such an argument is easily reduced to an ab absurdity absurdity absurdity If it is logical 1 then the burglar is justified in his ii depredations because the tile public leak lonk after him properly the same ume thing tl Rg can C Ut be said id o of many any other r forms of crime erime It i true that the public wants the news and wants it while it is news neb but there are ways of supplying demand ea Modern intuit anast be progressive ive if they desire to keep up with the times they must not only onI keep up with but a little ahead head of tho the times if they attain a full fuH measure of success No newspaper can command tile the respect nor the t patronage of the great neat mass of readers though if ii it adhere strictly to io straightforward methods of getting ettin news DeWS We a al l love Jove lovea a good and we all an try hard ever dar dB to secure it but honesty I ne ty integrity alertness t hard work will accomplish better tetter results result and leave a more wholesome taste tute i in III the tha mouths of 01 the workers than any course of crookedness that was ever e adopted fl o |