Show it it were possible for or some man of 0 unimagined wealth suddenly to purchase own control and dictate the policy ot of every newspaper in the united states he would be dictator at the united states he could elect whom he pleased lie he could control legislation by controlling the legislators he could tax baxas as he pleased by controlling the taxing bodies ile he could make war declare peace amend the constitution his power would be absolute for this country Is governed by public opinion and public opinion a almost entirely in the hands of 0 the newspaper with this in mind the words uttered by garrison villard editor and owner of the nation should be published far and wide and given serious thought by all who read newspapers which means practically all adults in this country mr air villard charges that the newspaper has become a money mak making iti institution rather than the carrier of an editorial message that its main function is to pay dividends rather than to present the truth that the great papers frequently take sides and deny the other side the chance to tell their story and that they are tor for all their cleverness used tar far too much by various interests to publish paid tor for propaganda tor for this that and the other special interest we can all see some examples of newspaper unfairness these are papers which will print no masonic news prominently they are journals which minimise mini mise miGe every ot of the catholic church there are arc papers in which adew a jew can not get his name and choso in which a gentile la is never handled bandied gently there are arc republican papers who can the truth about democrats and democratic papers which never tell the facts about about republicans but so tar far the biased papers balance each other and no man Is compelled to read only one paper but the real bulwark against newspaper dictatorship ship Is the small paper the country sheet the small town dally daily and it should be a matter ot of prid to all such as well as to their readers that while ot of the larger city papers th the e truly fair minded and honest sheets are in the minority the exact reverse reversa Is true among most ot of the eighteen thousand smaller journals ot of the nation |