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Show law newspapers where ha is not now rated at his worth, and there are few communities where be is not respected re-spected for his occupation and his invaluable in-valuable services. Not lonjrae'1 Tt' porter died ai Detroit. He bad not even 1 the title of the humblest editor on his paper. He had no friends or influence thai ho had not gained by sterling personal per-sonal worth and strict attention to the I duties of his occupation, He was only I a court reporter. And yet, when ho died, every court in Detroit adjourned out of respect to his memory; and at the funeral were seen the faces of the most emit.cut lawyers aud highest oili-cials oili-cials of the community. At Philadelphia Phila-delphia only a short time utf " almost parallel case occurred. Kteryhody re-members re-members the terrible Tribune building tire iu Minneapolis a year aud a half ai?o, when seven valuable lives were lost. Aiming thetn was a reporter. Jo prcater tribute was ever paid to any man la that city than was paid to the memory of that mere reporter," who lost his'life ia tho performance of hi duty. The Times does not pose as the apologist apol-ogist for the reporters as a class. They need noue. They are men with tho failings of men; as a clans, they are (jotitiemen, hsrd working, faithful, ever ready to saeriliee themselves for their puper aud the public. j An t'ocailed lor laautt. I D:ivor Timi's. i Many ro"or:cr are natural born blunderers Tiu-ro id otu-u irovr.tttt ii to s iy th:it "all r,;-pertrs r,;-pertrs .:o hiir-." Uuly iti-j utl.nr d.,y oi.e of t!io Kjwi ri'ix itU-rs madv Senator Woh-ott Bay thut "!f President Harru-on was rcnottili.ated ho would iie de:ated," wnlle the fact was ti b.u I the reverse. Kocky Mountain News. Thenboveis a gratuitous insult to re- porters as a claas.aud will be resented by every man who h is worked his way up through tho ranks of the newspaper business. bus-iness. It is fashionable for politicians to lay the blame on tho reporters when they make a blunder in the public print; but it is almost incredible that an editor who has any practical knowledge of bis occupation should mke such a cruel, unjustifiable, false statement as that contained iu sentence, "There is often provocation to say that 'all reporters are liars.' " Tho editor who will not stand by his roporiers, except in insiances where the latter are wiiful or maliciously at I fault, is not worthy of his name. Newspaper reporters as a class are con-! con-! sciemioiis aud tireless iu the discharge of tlK-ir duties. The public has no more faithful servant than the reporter. He is always ready to sacrifice himself for his paper aud its patrons. There is no man w ho works harder aud longer. The reporters re-porters of the News work longer hours aud more days in the year than the employes em-ployes of any other busines in Denver, Den-ver, aud they work conscientiously. The records of every large city in America can testify to the devotion to their work of hundreds of bright men who have sacrificed hetikb and life that the public miirht be served with the news it demanded. Two-thirds of the 1 exposures of frauds and corruption in 1 the largor cities are the work of the :' newspaper rcp'Tturn whoso valuable ', work often goes unappreciated even bv the wealthy proprietors of the paper who are enriched by their labors. j 'I he reporter's calling is an honorable and useful one. I ho value of his services ser-vices cannot be estimated. Thera are |