Show of t atu meatiness the bas baseness eners of a press which lias has it no policy except to truckle truck e arid and dodge and trim and mole for su subscribers scrib A P rs nothing can call be written that would bo be half so PO eloquent ah tile tho war mar which Is living made on the calls subscription list both the chronicle arid and have lial repeated experience of the catholic lah and they are arc that that catli strait shall be kept in ili good order tor for their ov n backs agian time was when no san francis Franc locco coi paper would dream of disobliging the catholic church they tumbled oner oe one another to antici anticipate pato its wishes but the A P A has come up and the editors assume that the price of speaking a woi woid d of disagreeable truth about either Is that the of tide bide will desert en masse manse to a more cautious rival and the assumption Is correct enough for the press of san ian francisco lias bas educated its lt public and taught it that it Is riot not the editor but the subscriber who edits the paper the press here Is I 1 riot not a guide to the public but a slave to the alic public to tile the lewt lea 1 and most bigoted por per llon lion of it IL it has not occurred to any of 0 the proprietors proprietor 0 the wealthy dallies dailies to make a timo time investment lit in iel eel f 11 A paper that should adopt the plan of oc doing its own thinking anil and speaking for tire the welfare would at first lose heavily beyond a doubt nut but at the end of 0 it a year jim 1 right to speak its ita mind would toe io acknowledged avid and the pra era or of large profit on oil the arrive father yet yolk ic cries out om passionately ly anil with perfect against the cowardice of 0 the 1 preys in the smallest mention or of a question m aich deeply lu in invests a laici of readers rc aden iut but no pomer otter lin been fv clent lit lor breeding cedIng that degraded timidity ua its father kiil r yorks own onn church I 1 lave have edited newspapers here and I 1 know precisely tb um same game motives mitch induce tile the press presa to be afraid ot of tire church now impel them to be afraid of 0 the churches churchs enemy jt it Is tit tor for tat lat and to that extent not distressingly retributive but it makes one a of oc journalism so long as there are ar men who have the power to lead up against a bold newspaper a mass of 0 vengeful vence ful prejudice so BO long ions will wo we havo have the spectacle of a gagged press buch as the call and examiner and chronicle are arc offering but B two such forces are now nt work opposite in interest it Is inevitable that there should be a servile rebellion though it may not last long lone A situation like that ot of tire tho culls calls tor for example Is ot of arid ami when the alio call breaks loose for or its lt lifes saile bake the others will too io und r cut compulsion 11 pilla ion to do I 1 hat which they most moat hate bate to do tl that vat they must sac sacrifice r a few aull subscribers bribers to retain many even tho the cunning of 0 tb throw raming ini a sturat to patch catch a wl ittle la Is as yet beyond them they want mant to get the whole and keep the splat too loo it li iq but just to lo note that solid amid all this journal kIle intellectual and moral squalor equator this collection of quaking kow lowers ond olid nickel clutch ing faint hearts one qan pan francisco paper it has had the pluck and tile tho wit to speak with an american voice and give a word wold of advice to religious b bigots gots on an both sides ot of tho line it it Is the bulletin |