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Show CONTKOL OK TI1K 1'KESS. Strong resolutions committing! its membership to a compromising! warfare in behall of the freedom oi tne press were adopted at the recent meeting of tlie American Newspaper Newspa-per 1'uolishers' association in iNew I ork. In their campaign, the newspapers newspa-pers will coiiiideiiily expect tne Mi'ong support of the public trained to beiieve in a tree press as the saletuard to the people's liberties. 'I lie American 1'ress, the Seattle Times, says, may not be above criticism, line it certainly is a deal better than any substitute that spe-! ciul interest, whether ultra-radical or ultra-conservative, could devise. U always is subject to the curb of public censure and no institution in the country feels adverse criticism criti-cism so quickly or so keenly. I hat is all the censorship required. requir-ed. It suftices to prevent continued injustice, unfairness or veniality. No newspaper can long run counter to public opinion and prosper. Some tiy but they speedily learn the error er-ror of their ways. Tlie people can deal with this matter mat-ter in their own way. They have been dealing with it suecesfully from the earliest days of American history. rJ hey are capable of exercising exer-cising that power, through force of public opinion, in the future. This control the press welcomes, but any other it should and it will resist, to the final extreme. Deser-t-t News. |