| Show THE PROPER COURSE A locally celebrated case has bag just been concluded in the third district court of this territory it was waa for the most part the story atory of a home defiled a s honor destroyed and tier her paramour brought to bloody lion some of the details det aile while india veneable pene pon able sable to the jury were unfit for publication and therefore should have been carefully excluded from every home where here there are children and where purity prevail prevailed pre vaile this meaning we take it all but a very few A newspaper however belig being a vehicle of information to the public hannot IS ig nore important events of the character spoken of or an any other band and cheque the tion thus arlum arises as to what extent it may go in the direction of details it may ma ay iy not exclude or revise to the extent t at of insufficiency or partiality and should not open its if columns to every vile or suggestive sentence employed DO matter how essential to a full and fair determination of the issues bissu la in court this we believe to be as aa correct ao a a outline ot of what rule the press pre should he be controlled by as an can be made in so 0 many words worda the NEWS bes baa sought to act upon that principle throughout not gar bling or being incomplete and yet avoiding or vileness lenew vl acquainting qua inting its readers with every essential detail anil and withholding trem from them language which presumably they would not care to hear bear and therefore do not care to read certainly in any case they would prefer not to have language of that kind intro deuced into their family circle even if they could tolerate or even seek for it themselves this policy on our part bas baa strangely enough one would think met with objection in some few cases cages and by those not given to im proper things generally it is always undesirable for fault to be found with us and always desirable that it be found when it must be because we have done right we did not publish all that was testified to in the trial spoken of but looking back over what was published we make the discovery regrettable reg retable enough to us that there was if any ibling more than there should have been more perhaps than there would have been had bad there been time and opportunity for thorough revision still it was not nearly as bad as the report furnished by others because almost entirely free from actual bad ness and was waa nearly as good as it could coula be with a due regard for completeness eness the NEWS earnestly hopes that the time to is not far off ahou the public will be educated beyond the point of demanding the horrible the revolting and the vulgar through the medium of the press preen and then than such matter will nolon no longer gers appear 11 pear general statements with the trend and prominent features of every matter of public concern would then be entirely satisfying the NEWS is determined to maintain a stand as an near to that point as it can got get without boeing sight of the prevail ing characteristics of a journal of today by keeping above rath er than abreast ot of the too ten denoy dency of the times we not only be come disseminators of news but of morals morale as well this thiele is the me true ulm of a true journalist and as heretofore the will ever be found trying to restrain and make forethoughtful more thoughtful the hurrying throng rather than causing it to into its speed make more confusing its contusion confusion and less healthful its un health falness by encouraging and siding aiding it in tue the direction spoken enot ot |
