Show newspapers AND THE PUBLIC journals an integral part of the eco cond t ons grow better in their character and their influence this fact may lately have been obscured by he amount of criticism most of it jut that has been passed upon tain evils in the press papers are proper subjects of criticism like gas companies insurance companies poll tics or oil trusts and we have been among those be as frank about our own profession as about any other the truth remains that the american newspapers today have more poe ind aoe for better ends than at an previous time the permanence and reality of this gain depend on u the newspapers influence us and we also influence them they are the very air which eiery day we take into our stems but also they are a product of ourselves they will grow better it wac grow better money will tempt them less if it becomes less of a pow er with all of us success will be less exclusively their standard if we all are guided by a brighter star we are trying to make political standards nobler we are trang to remove cor from the great business enter press that effect the welfare ot us all at present the wave of exposure seems to accompany a genuine moral uplift if it is real it the whole tone of our society is being raised then this belief in better newspapers will be j istl fled if there is no genuine am provement pro in our hearts if the out break of exposure is only an epidemic then of course this apparent step for ward of the press will prove illusive also we are glad to be among those who believe in its reality colliers weekly |