| Show SLANT SLANDER DEn ER IS A O GRIME DIE Too man many newspapers have e been simply simp expressions of tho the personal ten ten- of their owners Many lan a man who would not stand face to taco face with his enem enemy and C call ll him lilt a n thief has bas called him that a n score of or times In a ran Many a slander ISlander that the own owner r of ot a n. paper would not utter b by byword byword word of or mouth ho he has given th the far wider publicity of ot newspaper tion Apparently that is what the New Net NewYork Y York World 1 and arid the tho Indianapolis News have havo done dono In lii the tho matter of or President ent Roosevelt Pretending to know of graft in connection with the purchase and construction o of or tho the Panama canal the they thoy havo have attacked attached the tho President with tUh accusations which If U true truo should land hand him In the penitentiary I Action has been I begun legun un ec-un by j tho the government gov gor- o.- o. c 1 evidently to ascertain all aU the truth that lies back of or the stories that these papers ha e so persistently pub pub- The government So is In duty bound to know the tho truth those papers pretend to ha o ha o. o Xo No o matter who is tho the culprit if one there bo be O he should hould be bo disclosed and made mache to suffer his just punishment On the other hand if Ie there Is no truth back of the tho charges of ot graft an and 1 dishonesty in connection with tho the canal case 1 If tho the President ent has been slandered that fact too should be o known The nation has a aright aright right ris-ht to pillory the tho slanderer of a President if it tb there rc has been slander It is ia no Interference with the tho fr freedom freedom free free- c- c dom of tho press Freedom at no time and in no place contemplates the rJ right ht to commit crime Au And slander is a n crime When l maliciously directed the tho President of or tho the United States It Is a crime against the tho people people peo pea pie of the whole nation All the facts should be brought out These papers papers and and some somo small amaH piping echoes like hike tho Salt Lake Tribune Tribune- ha have vc been reiterating slanders against t tin till President If President if th there ro bo he no truth 1 in their case Their only wn way to acquittal acquittal ac ac- ac- ac in iii the tito court of ot 1110 public conscience conscience con con- conscience science is 18 to produce the proof FallIng Failing Fall Fail Ing that the they should bo be punished for 0 the they have committed a a. crime the nation |
