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Show Newspaper Notoriety The big newspisers are always on the watch for murder cases, etc , out of which they can make a great sensation. Then they work it for all it is worth, from start to finish. They publish columns col-umns telling all about the murderer and all his relatives and friends; his picture in a dozen poses is published for the popular admiration, and for weeks or months he is kept in the limelighta lime-lighta conspicuous and enviable public pub-lic character. But let a peaceable and industrioua man lose his life while at work, or in saving the lives of others, and at best he gets only a few casual lines in the papers. What an immense premium it thus placed on crime by these big newi-papera. What wonder is it that w have 10,000 killings in th a country a year or that only about one in a hundred of the murderers par the penalty. Dr. Wiley in recent address blamed the laws for this laxity and urged the women of the country to help in stamping out this national disgrace. dis-grace. But it isn't the laws; we have a superabundance of laws already. It is .he people themselves, and those who cater to them that are to blame. Nine out of ten of the general run of the public love to gloat over the daily hell-broth of crime and infamy and filth that is set before them by tha newspapers. news-papers. Their tastes have been depraved deprav-ed until they crave this poiyon just as the old toper craves his daily booze. The press can be and should bo a great mora! agency, but it must aim to elevate the people instead of pandering to their lowest appetites. Let virtue receive as much attention as villainy now does and we shall soon be on the right road. |