Show HOW AN EDITOR WENT WRONG In the th current number of ot The Fra Fm an excellent magazine that comes from Ea Aurora and the home borne of the Im un mort Is is found a 8 very long and very bitter article from the capable pen of ot William Marlon Marion Reedy Reed sometime editor of ot the St Louis Mirror And therein Mr Reedy states without fear tear of ot suc sue successful contradiction that all the news newspapers newspapers newspapers papers of ot today are dishonest and that truth Is not In them Which makes one wonder if It Mr Reedy Reed speaks spooks from ex cx experience or discovered the turpitude co coincident coIncident incident with his retirement Under the head of ot The Myth of a aFree aFree aFree Free Press Mr Reedy declares that the newspapers are here nowadays far the money And then he grows exceed exceeding exceeding ing bitter As look The prizes of Journalism are not for tor those who can OdD think soundly and write well The man who writes has no chance to reach the real topmost round in Jour The owners of newspapers are business businessmen They want dividends They want wanti I men businesS i They must get the money from the men nen wh have it from the men who run the th community and such men are out for their own pockets first last and ant all the tI tim All the rest is ls leather l nea nU nella Naturally I will wm be asked What Is the remedy rem dy for all aU tills this Wherein Mr Re dY Is mistaken Ha Ho will be asked why he h take some something something something thing for t r it What he needs is a little attention to a bilious condition which may make him trouble If it longer neg neglected neglected neglected I And the next day he should take quinine and quit expecting people to listen to him They dont care a whole lot what he has bas to say Imagining ing lug that they do is what has made William Marion Marlon uncomfortable Newspapers Newspaper always are a little more honest than the communities in which they are printed And as every oer com corn community communIty is more honest than dishonest more good than bad it follows that the newspapers newspaper are to be had for better and ant anc not for tor worse worM The rhe talented but bilious contributor to The Fra Fia has parallel in the man who declares that there are no good women b e he has been unfortunate in getting briefly acquainted with one woman who was as bad Also he has par parallel parallel parallel in the woman who declares no noman noman noman man Is honest and bases her Judgment on an unfortunate experience with one man who ho really realty all he should have been Horace Greeley seems seem to be the ideal of ot Mr tr Reedy That is because Mr Reedy shuts his eyes to everything but the fact that Mr Greeley was for years the guiding spirit of the New ew York Yorki i Tribune But if It he had lud not been fa favored favored favored by Providence with a business office having a bettor better hon boa honesty honesty esty than his own Horace would have hElve been reduced re to the tender mercies t Ot f the long before he broke Into the Cincinnati convention Newspapers usually are run by re responsible responsIble responsible owners That means that the paper will Ill come as near to paying as it honestly can But most owners under understand understand stand quite as well as does Mr Reedy that the most valuable asset Is the con confidence confidence confidence of the people and try tr quite as ashard ashard ashard hard as 8 he would have them to win winand winand winand and hold that regard Sometimes they make mistakes But their aim is to tobe tobe tobe be fair with the people Anything olse else is suicide The trouble with William Marion Marlon Reedy Heady seems to t be that some seme one has told him his hi services were no longer required |