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Show If Guilty, Forgiveness I Assnred. The mortality among newspapers in tho United States during tho past 18 uuonths has been something almost unprecedented. un-precedented. In New York Etnte alone 273 newspapers suspended between June, 1S93, 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 said to bo due to hard times caused by the Democratic free trade 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 ono grew before is & benefactor of his kind, what shall be eaid of him who makes but one news paper to desolate the community whew there were three before? San Francisco Francis-co Argonauti. |