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Show Should The Press Be Censored? H WE boast very often about the loveliness of H free speech and a free press in our repub- B He. We are not certain that our free press M is not too free, that perhaps It should be cen- H sored, and known reprobates be forbidden to H write and publish what they please about people. H The prostitute is permitted to talk as she pleases 'H for two reasons: The first is that her words die H quickly on the air, the second that her own life H diverts every shaft that she aims at decency. H But the man whose private life is that of a pan- H derer for money is permitted to assail his fellow H man through the types of a newspaper and the H masses of those who read, knowing neither the victim nor the assailant, assume that there must H be something substantial In the arraignment. It H is not printing facts as they have transpired H that is shameful; it is in ascribing motives to H men of which the writer of the article knows H nothing. We have had plenty of that in this H city. There is a general form of Blander which H is more generally indulged in. For instance, if H any one Insists that the laws hero should be H obeyed, the laws especially which forbid polyg- H amy and political church rule, the Deseret News H always replies that there is no more polygamy H and never has been anything like church rule in H Utah, and that the men who have assumed that H those crimes exist have no higher motive than H to persecute an innocent people for some base H end of their own. And the man who writes H those things would sooner lose his own right H arm than disobey any request made him by one H of the first presidency or either apostle, so abject H a slave is he. As an imitator of the News the H Herald-Republican is an apt scholar, .and its H scholarship has, behind it a consuming desire to H be an accomplished liar and a great love to bear H false witness against all men who will not help H support it. H |
