Show I 1 1 0 THE LAW OF LIBEL I 1 i I 1 A sensible bill billt tipon pon the subject of I 1 newspaper libel has recently passed i I 1 ope one bouse house ol 01 the new york assembly it should pabs pass the other receive the governors go vernora approval app oval and then be 1 1 i copied into the statute books of all the I 1 elates states and territories in the union briefly stated its provisions are that any person w ho willfully states delivers I 1 or transmits to a newspaper for publication therein any libelous libe loua statement I 1 I 1 C concerning any person or corf po oration ration and thereby secures the actual publication of he the same Is 1 L guilty of 0 a misdemeanor I 1 j in the tile great majority of cases w where here f 1 newspapers are called to account for I 1 t 1 libel the statements constituting the I 1 ortence offence are furnished the writers by R 4 people who by a plausible showing allowing impose them yet escape the k 0 consequences of their guilt the new york law will strike af a the tile root of the s evil of course the provision should L 5 remain which makes the newspaper responsible for its own willful wron wrong g f doing and the lite penalties ought to be 1 1 heavy enough to drive every each such concern to the wall but with all the s freedom of the press in america newspapers which make a business of li belling honest men for the mere I 1 S 11 love of it ft are very scarce |