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Show j Debauchery of the Press. ! Those who read - last week of how I a certain insurance company sent to i the leading daily papers, of this city. I says the Church Progress of St. Louis. I a paid advertisement to app:ar as a I news item, thereby seeking to avert I adverse criticism of its dabbling in i the stock markets. - should lea.fn I therefrom a very important lesson, j Whil some of them printed it "niak-j "niak-j ing a price to suit." and some refused to thus debauch their honor, sllll it should make the readers of the- daily I press slow to place absolute credence j in all that appears as "news." "Rail-I "Rail-I reading." or guessing at the news.-is j now a fine art in daily journalism. , The incident above referred o ! shows that many papers are ready at any time to sell tholr honor: . All thnt ! is necessary is to tiffer the price, j Ther? is no language sufficiently strong and decent to characterize i such debauchery of the press. Gold- bricking the readers of the daily pa-i pa-i per in the way of news is not 'a new trick of the profession of journalism. But th-3 above sample is one of the most degrading that has been offered of luxe. Another instance of like character has just come to our observation. It t involves the Peruna fakir. :i gainst ! whom the Catholic press has made such vigorous protest. In som? papers pa-pers ' of the southern states may be found ; what purports to be an interview inter-view with one Dr. Hartman touching the yellow plague. This Dr. Hart-man Hart-man is none other than the Columbus. Colum-bus. O.. gentleman who has bern faking the indorsements of Sisters who have no existence and of Catho- j lie institutions. A gentleman who has , extracted large sums of money from I the peopl? by selling them a com- ! pounds of low-grade whisky, the alco- i holic taste of which is obliterated I with cheap bitters. The substance of this interview, which is nothing more than a paid advertisement, directs people who would avoid yellow fever to take Peruna. Pe-runa. It should be taken during the whol? course of the epidemic, and those who follow the advice are suie not to take yellow fever. Could anything be more damnable on the part of the press than lending lend-ing Itself to such an effort to defraud de-fraud Hs r:aders for the price paid for such "news"? Could anything be less humane and more insulting? Ig there no way to put an end to such perfidy on the part of those gflllty of the debauchery? |