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Show CLEAN, MORAL PUBLIC PRESS ' IS DEMANDED. Now and then a cleer writer or talker but more often one who Is not clever Indulges in ulgar word6 and phrases in his public utterances, hoping hop-ing to gain applause and to win added add-ed distinction as an odd genius. We have heard vaudeville "artists" so coarse as to ho disgusting and we j have read Jokes so crude as to be I nauseating We always have held to I the opinion that neither a public speaker nor a newspaper writer can afford to be smutty in his work, as the indecent has no place In print or 'on the stage A few years ago Ogden Og-den had a newspaper writer, whose I mind was a mass of filth. He boasted boast-ed of his coarse paragraphing and he ! gathered a small following of kindred spirits, but gradually the best people peo-ple drew away from him and his paper pa-per languished and finally disappeared. disappear-ed. He went the way of the buffoon with his crass and fumed exhalations. Some distinguished men have been known to yield to these debased I promptings, but they hae recovered their balance or have lost standing I with the publle. We have before us a copy of the last issue of "The Fdl-Itor Fdl-Itor and Publisher," in which Elbert I Hubbard is criticised for the liberties he has taken in his "Philistine." that paper justly declaring: "It has long been the wonder of the newspaper world that Elbert j Hubbard has not been brought to jbook by the United States authorities authori-ties for the publication of indecent matter In his magazine. That he has I at length been arrested and fined $100, in Buffalo, on a single count of I an Indictment found against him Is, we are certain, a source of satisfaction satisfac-tion to people who believe in a clean, moral public press Mr. Hubbard is undoubtedly clever He has built up a large property at East Aurora and jls making big money every year, not only through the productions of his print shop and other manufacturing plants, but through his lectuVes. He Is a popular speaker and has the abil. 'Uty to interest large audiences and hold them, as It were, in his hand. Pew men on the lyceum platform to-jday to-jday are as popular as Mr. Hubbard. 'He i? also In demand as a speaker before commercial and advertising clubs on the subject of advertising It would seem hr though a man of such prominence one who addresses I audience composed of people of education edu-cation and refinement, would use greater care in the preparation of matter appearing in his magazines, In order that nothing should go forth In tliem that would violate good taste or shock the moral sensibilities of their readers Hut Mr Hubbard loves to jdo things rl liferent 1 i than other people, peo-ple, in order to convince the public that he Is original He likes to skate I along on thin ice in discussing moral j questions, and If he breaks through occasionally It gives him no concern, j He has printed things In the Philistine Philis-tine that were positively Indecent; and yet. until his Indictment at Buffa-lo Buffa-lo last week, he had had no trouble smb. the postal and other departments j of the goxeinment. "Because he la popular. Mr Hubbard Hub-bard must not presume too much upon up-on his popularity to say things In print that he has no business to say. The public will put up with a great deal, but its patience sometimes becomes be-comes exhausted, even with men possessing pos-sessing Hubbard's ability." |