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Show If Guilty, Forgiveness Is Assured. The mortality among newspapers in the United States during the past 18 months has been something almost unprecedented. un-precedented. In New York state alone 273 newspapers suspended between June, 1893, and June, 1894. For the first time since 1869 the total number catalogued cata-logued by the newspaper directory is less than for the preceding year. This Is 6aid to be due to hard times caused by the Democratic free trado panic, but : this is one of the things for which that party will most assuredly be forgiven. If he who makes two blades of grass to grow where but one grew before is & benefactor of his kind, what 6hall be eaid of him who makes but one news-; news-; paper to desolate the community where there -were three before? San Francis-j Francis-j co Argonaut. |