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Show i m i nun mi ;The Newspaper and the People. ! The local newspaper is a greator conservator of the moral and ' material interests of the people than any other one factor in a community. If it is true to the traditions of the craft, it never i fails to stand between the people and any harm that might befall them. The newspaper is closer to tho people, with the possible exception of the church, than any other institution in the community. The editor, says the East Liverpool (0.) Review, knows more people than any man in any trade, profession, or calling call-ing in the community. He knows their wants, their wishes, their weaknesses, their follies, their vices and and their virtues. He is the custodian of their innermost inner-most secrets. lie has gazed upon the gruesome skeleton in practically every family closet within the jurisdiction of his newspaper, and if he were to speak out and tell all he knows, the community wovld be shaken from center to circumference with tho rolevations of scandal. But he does not choose to speak out in that manner, for he desires to exploit only the good that men and women do and thus exalt the community. Ho would rather exploit virtue than expose vice, notwithstanding that the majority major-ity of tho reading public are clamorous for the sensational. His purpose is to elevate the standing of his publication as well as that of the community. The people of every community owo a debt of gratitude to their nowspapers. Somo of them are not always eager to discharge that debt. They aro rather inclined in-clined to give the notospitpoES the worstgdUU JThgy fafi& itfwTBBuiKjfcjijHH social osmieismT The tJows-papers tJows-papers would probable gfc the same thing again even' in tho faco of provocation and the memory of those people's base ingratitude. The trouble is that, while exposing the moral obliquity of somo, pain and sorrow and humiliation are brought upon others who are innocent. That is another reason why tho well-regulated news-parer news-parer remains quiescent under aggravating circumstances. Western Publisher. |