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Show THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER. We have received a communication soliciting our aid in suppressing the Sunday newspaper. We are no Don Quixote and Sancho to battle against windmills. If the Sunday newspapers do wrong deeds they also do good, besides their suppression is impossible. The sheet we received called the Bugle Blast is full of Secretary Root's unjust screed against Hearst. We can apply to Hearst's papers what is applied to all Sunday publications, that is if they have a bad influence they also have a good. Wo refuse positively to take up the cry of wolf against Hearst and join with the hounds in full pursit of one editor. He may have used j wrong methods in advertising his papers and of that we are not sure that it was not simply progres-siveness. progres-siveness. We do not believe that W. R. Hearst is as bad as his envious fellow editors proclaim. We hold that he entertains high ideals and that he is full of high purpose in regard to the American republic. If he has committed a few wrong deeds in the past they were more the errors of youthful business ardor. Until he is proven otherwise than what we believe him, we will remain unchanged. Who is all good and who is all evil? We do not believe in Sunday cartoons that deny God, judgment, judg-ment, heaven and hell, but what can we do about it ? Besides W. R. Hearst is a Protestant and that schismatic sect believes in the right of private judgment, that every man should do as his reason dictates, and if he does not believe in this or that Biblical utterance he is only exhibiting his strong faith in multifarious non-Catholicism. In conclusion conclu-sion we ask do the scriptures say anything against Sunday newspapers, and if they do, we do not know, from a Protestant standpoint, whether they are the word of God or no. They are the word of God only on the authority of the Catholic church and Protestants reject that church. |