Show N NEWSPAPER A. A ANNOYANCES Here is something you on might stick in your hatband If It I owned a newspaper what I would say In It just now would be bo a plenty remarked remark remark- ed a a. man the other day says the tLe Marion Marion Ma Ma- rion 0 O. O Tribune in a n recent edito edito- editorial rial He was invited to write what he wanted to say with assurance that it would be printed if his signature accompanied ac no- noc companied c it Ho He very promptly d declined the tho tender tender tender ten ten- der remarking that it would hurt his business There are a lot of people willing anxious in fact tact for tor things to be bo said in the newspapers providing they hurt the business ss of somebody else and not their own What newspaper has not had this very ery same experience with this very same yellow tadpole of or a citizen who splutters and splutters about what ought to be printed in a newspaper and what ought to be omitted And yet when you Invite the coward to be responsible for the manuscript he wants you to publish he ho whines like a sick dog skulks behind this pretext pre pre- text and that and wobbles out of oC the theoffice theoffice office with a a. grouch That is not all He writes In that ho he will stop his paper It if you ou dont don't print what he himself wont won't sign Yet if Ie you ou were to suggest to him that his threat to stop his paper Is pure and simple coercion through a threat of oC blackm blackmail n he would yowl owl like a tomcat with its tall tail stepped on The fellow who threatens to stop his paper is trying to do the newspaper newspaper news news- paper In a small way the very ery thing that he would condemn as criminal inn ina corporation that tried In any wa way to throttle the freedom of the press Threatening to stop the paper is an attempt at intimidation But it Is worse than that Threatening Threatening Threat Threat- t- t ening to stop the paper Is a confession confes conCes sion slon of bigoted Intolerance on the tho part of the delinquent subscriber that pulls such a bone for it means that he does docs not want the paper to have the courage of its own comic Hons after all but Insists that it shall have only the courage of or the convictions convictions convictions of the stop paper cr Big magazines with circulation I piling toward the million and great metropolitan newspapers are pestered pestered pestered pes pes- with this pest who wants them to publish something and assume a responsibility for Cor authorship which the pest is too big a coward to assume assume as as- sume and who threatens to stop his subscription If It the they do not do hi hi- bidding Why do newspapers have th thI these thes annoyances Well Vell Y why y do hotels sometimes have bedbugs and hen houses have lice 1 |