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Show It it Is a good thing for an individual "to have and to hold" a fixed codi of principles or rules of life, it is also desirable and appropriate appro-priate that a newspaper, even though a country publication, should be-guicled be-guicled iu its policy by certain well defined principles and should stand by those principles. The world respects a person who is loyal to his convictions but has no use for the one who triee to "side-step." Passive Pass-ive neutrality is appropriate and wise under some circumstances, but neural icy is au evidouce of weakness or cowardice under other conditions. con-ditions. The NiiWS ha certain clearly-cut and emphatic opinions along the line of the moral, social and political issues of the day and will, from time to time make frank and definite avowal of these principles, in order that its patrons and friends and all its readers may know exactly where to find it. The NEWS will respect the opinions of others and accord them the same right of independent thought that it claims for itself. The newspaper "on the fenoe" is about as pitiable a spec-tacle spec-tacle as oue could imagine. |