Show INDECENT advertisements the following questions are submitted to the nims NEWS in a letter received from cedar city iron county to the editor kindly answer the following in your ever welcome journal first has the publisher of a newspaper paper the right to reject a legal notice of a court of record duly ac attested tested and bearing the seal of court the newis newspaper paper being published in the same saine judicial district second would the publisher have any right to amend or omit any part of touch such notice your answers will be appreciated by numerous readers as well as an to the first question the reply to if yes yen there Is in no rule or law jaw compelling a newspaper to publish a notice legal or otherwise the sale of 01 space apace for or aoh such advertisements is a straight bub but ineas inese proposition and ii if the publisher objects to selling the would be purchaser ot of space cannot gain his hib end by legal process ot of compulsion all ad u coune come under this thi 8 rule fruit and ada in conformity with a policy which it believes is tor for the public good the NEWS continually rejects adver ad venial usi g matter which it regards as of au an improper which finds space in less discriminating journals journal lecause te cause it is well paid for no publisher will refuse advertisements of a proper character if he be has baa available space and ii if be objects to a notice whether from a court of recoil or not because of ite atiq indecent character he be is under no do moral or legal obligation to yield to pres pressure eure for its publication but should reject it out of deference Uele renoe lor for the pub lie welfare replying to the second question no in ordinary the newspaper publisher Is in allowed to cornet errors in orthography punctuation and grammar but bis ale privileges in taking liberties with legal notices are closely restricted striated ed it be mends amends or omits any part so BO an aa to interfere with KB its oom corn piete reBe be Is not entitled to payment tor for the advertisement while he be way may too be liable lor for any damages or expenses tX that might accrue because of the changes made A copy of a legal notice is sent by our correspondent aud and presumably Is IB the he one concerning which the questions are asked the NEWS would not publish b such euch a notice any consideration it to is grossly indecent notwithstanding the fact that it issued from the district court no judge who has baa a proper regard for public morals would knowli gly issue lebue a summons sum motis in such language wedo we do not doubt chatin that in this particular instance titan ce as aa ln in most moat oases cases ot of the kind the budke signed the order upon the assurance of the attorney that it w was aa in proper form and without reading it but an attorney or t officer of the court who would frame or bea be a willing patty party to sending out such auch a notice needs a jenson in cummon common decency be fore being permitted again to issue if sue a document tor for the public eye and if the publication in a paper was delibert ate with knowledge of the contents coot euti of the summons it was waa RD an inexcusable offense against society |