| Show Tim Tilt L Cleveland Cleeland Plain Dealer Cot Gov 00 lenny had no sooner looner II the new Pennsylvania libel law last without nan the tho newspapers er of Philadelphia exception deliberately md lid violated it From Irom the tho conservative edger to the sensational en North N Amui Mner can call they all ail announced the Intention to go 0 right along their old oM ways with Out Jut regard to the tho law Kansas City II Star Sla That the Governor of at Pennsylvania and nd Its ite Legislature have sanctioned i u 11 scheme chemo to estop criticism and discus Ion lion In the newspapers of acts ache act and poll ties Ics les that aro of ot tho rho greatest Importance Importune o a the peo la Is the fullest hat has hAI yet ft been rondo made of ot the odious political immorality that pervades th the Keystone state tate stater fr r Milwaukee Wisconsin Sunder Under nd r the th Pennsylvania libel lawmen charged with libel 1 are presumed to tb b be guilty until they prove their Innocence Therefore It Is II no surprise that the lay lAW has created a 0 great commotion In a 1 re reo and before b tore the quen lion U is finally disposed of ot It 11 Will be n no surprise If It It changes the politics o ot of Pennsylvania New Nil York Evening Post Got Gov 00 Pennypacker might well have hae been warned as III the lords lord and com of England were by br Milton tc to consider what nation It Is I whereof y ye are re governors a nation not slow and dull but of a quick lok Ingenious and IId piercing spirit Can such a people t be kept kent from freeing their minds mInd about aboul solemn absurdities In high office II It they aro are prevented In one way VII the th they y will surely find and vent In another Baltimore Sun If It the people of Pennsylvania care careless careless less for tor their own feelings than the feelings of their servants in office and their political bosses they will accept the pree law without n mur murmur murmur murmur mur If they thO believe however that no nc noman noman man In public office ought to be Im Immune immune mune mun from criticism If tf he Ie deserves de It they will not be satisfied until the new libel statute Is II repealed The honesty and ind courage ot of the people of Pennsyl PennI Pennsylvania vania are art as ac I deeply Involved as aa the rights tights of the press New York Mall and Express The principle embodied In the Penn Pennsylvania Pennsylvania sylvania libel bill which Gov Oo Pennypacker Penny packer acker has hall now signed Is le bad and In and very likely will be he found to be unconstitutional The bill ought night ou ht not to have been signed But Dut now low that It has hOl been signed It Is just as aswell yell well to pay say that t at the yellow press pless not only of ot Philadelphia but ot of this city and md tho the country at nt large has brought broughton bro on in on Itself and the press pres In general just Jut uch such exercises of f tho the lawmaking power and md will probably bring on stilt still others of if the same lime kind B rl Republican Gov 00 Penny of ot Pennsylvania otter lifter a n month months deliberation has hn signed the he press gR bill and It Is now a II aw law aw w of ot the state It ate It may be that news n newspapers ws papers paper owing to their Interested peel pol lon Ion cannot easily pull take an Imparts view lew of or this affair and doubtless It Is II true rue that there thero are papers pap t In J nn of neglect to lake their own fallings Into account when hen criticising the Legislature And the Governor for the enactment of this new anel nd and drastic dra legislation BUM AIM since the lays ays of ot Junius the press NeBS has hns had to the question of or Its It own freedom rusting mating to the tho justice of Its cause causo to ln the sympathy and support of ot the peo people eople le Louisville Herald supreme need n cd Is le a I com corn complete lete and radical change chango of ot state goy gov go A change involving merely 1 s nominal transference of the state rom from the Democratic to the Republican olumn column Is not enough No change of ot ien nien men will suffice though that Is n R very try oral and important necessity There must be a turn over oer which shall for tor over ever do away with all al the vicious prat tires Ices precedents precedent I and traditions that fort for 1 t generation havo have fastened fa themselves on n Kentucky state politics |
