Show APPEAL TO MUCKERS A publication issued by a chicago banking institution asks must newspapers appeal to muckers duckers Muc kers the writer 6 ca I 1 of the article names three newspapers to prove that the question can be bd answered in tile the negative while this critic of newspapers may not have intended to infer that few newspapers do not appeal to muckers duckers muc kers n he should not have loft left unsaid the fact that few news papers merit that criticism the number of newspapers that are being edited without regard for muckers duckers Is so large and increasing so rapidly that tho the american press Is an agent in influent cing public opinion was never greater nor more salutary in spite of the insinuations and accusations of those individuals divi duals who are so quick to discover ulterior motives in every one who falls fails to see eye to eye with them the press is doing a part in making good citizens in destroy in the demoralizing effect of hypocrisy in presenting the facts of american life to americans for their final consideration many moons have passed since representative newspapers could be made the weapons of the muckraker the crusaders who demands that all humanity fit itself to T facts chis pattern and they are not now printed to gratify the perverted notions of the |