Show tilt THE att ill P or 01 fotr N A I 1 IS the T he primal arlo n newspaper r i ii to give 11 the net bufa 1 l 1 in io a of fact anil id 1 I I 1 I 1 there r is rr news of opinion I 1 news or of incident and event awl and news of policies sad and of the admi almina W of public affairs news or of men andoe and of borona po personal rona character and news 0 society and social movements and life the lie development of of journalism in 10 the iho last if decade ca d ain in this country hai tat A made this qu ju of nt ono of 0 iho rigid necessities of the profession tl r not to attempt a inico definition di we might my that that was tho the most mom successful journal which lays wore before its readers the highest clarq cla of news most intelligently discriminated and wisely set forth and which cultivates a lute for such among its ita readers it is 14 in with this thia a and n d this destiny that the press is do becoming daily more and more tho the voice of the people their refuge in dis distress tressi and their most potent patent expression it was vw for many years the theory and practice of enterprise to cons consider ider P ierson personal al and partisan part isao support necessary to lo the gron th and prosperity of a journal that theory leeor y is now ceplo PIG ded the fools who ato aro ready to blisick stop my paper at cery cel word wd of dissent from their own viens are growing fewer and fewer and the lovers of inde pendent cadent opinion more lucia nod more gunter oil u nothing else clao will explain the of the independent journals of the country no sooner does this fact of the stability of tho the independent press become established than the glorious possibilities of such an become evident and actual the press of the future will bo be the peoples causo cause atin more than it bas been in the past it will come to bo be the duty of journalism to be the peoples attorney and the ho highest privilege of a community to bo be the client chent of such a journal the investigation of the bloomi abdale as asilum lutin by the new york triune tribune is a case III in point we a do not cot sharo share the holy horror expressed in some quarters over this enterprise the fact la is that the asylum is a public institution a place where any of us may be called at any day to those thoo whom we hold most dear or submit ourselves to ireat ment tho 7 he case is albo peculiar from the iho utter impossibility ty of procuring evi cri benco of the actual manago management ment except in the manner adopted by tho the tribune in this cose cam then thad wo we say bay that a man of un undoubted oil to sanity ally u who a is is wa willing in octo to p procure are a mi assion to a an n a alum a and expose ip I 1 its management age on is ii justille in so in joma ariga and a journal which will engage in such a war work docs 0 a duty t tot to the a pubic pu lie which chic so nobody 0 y else w will I 1 do a I 1 no a private citizen has the ta thuie ti I 1 the means the ho heart or the public car r to enable him bim to carr out such a philanthropy but jut a jour I 1 ira liaa nod and to explore abuses at home and to lay bare matters mattera in which tho a apte public lo 10 aro a deeply inter cited cd ua from which h h it it absurdly excluded is 11 the highest mcc of re porting we pro suppose a that the c be entered upon and carried out in this spirit of hoogst public set aar vice it is no impeachment of tins this purpose that the exposure males and becomes I a sensation the exposure results in the llie same lind of sensation Bonfa tion as ai other recent exploits the exposure and overthrow ot of the and an jno angi el back over alo hi histories hii ories torieS of f these there iniquities and upon tho the present attitude ol of the independent pofi no 80 on one can fail to see sea is iq OZ ox excising tt a new function loftier than any 1 to which it has fitta ined and that tho the people far from mi it ai an or it asan as an ini i ui pertinence are disposed to acce accept pLit it as tho the harnessing of a now new and irant glint force into the public and an tho the of a new safeguard to free insel Spring springford fold |