Show TIM THE PUBLIC MESS the republican organ of provo the enquirer of tuesday contains tho the following editorial I 1 I 1 the editor of the logan jonina aal L spoke on tho the press at the recent annual college club banquet nt fit logan and among other thing lings ti 9 lie he said with the arsua argus eye of the press tipon them public officials take more pride in tile the performance of their duties the people aro arc mora careful in ill their selection 0 oi f public servants teachers are more inore apt to keep up the standard of education physicians are more temperate in their habits thita hf and preachers in their utterances that is in every sence true the very first thin thing a wrongdoer wrong doer thinks of is the newspaper lie ile fears exposure iu in its columns worse than the penalty prescribed bylaw if he be a violator of the law the free criticism of acts of public servants therefore tends to make them more careful their mistakes are usually shown up to their own profit and society generally is ia bene fitted too many regard the labor of the press in their bringing to light corruption in 0 office as personalities they cannot understand that the newspaper man must criticize them if they do wrong and he does his bis ilu luty no matter what ther the r position the enquirer has recently been put to needless expense in a libel suit because a touchy official could not bear that his big mistakes be made public and we had bad to prove in court all that we had said in the paper there are malicious newspaper men no doubt who criticize men men through feelings of spitefulness but they are rare iare exceptions it is natural for a man atta attacked eked by a newspaper to cry that the newspaper has no love for him but in most cases the editor bears him no malice and regrets while writing 0 a roaster that hard criticism is necessary necessary every newspaper however b has as a duty to pe perform rford and that duty must not not be lost eight of by feelings of sympathy if the that takes his knife in his big hand to amputate a limb and to save human life lets sympathy Bym pathy for his hie patient weaken him lie ho neat r can do a good job the editor must be as stolidly resolute in cutting away the diseased parts of society if friendship fear or favor weakens him in the discharge of liis his duty duly he is not a good newspaper I dan idan |