Show A JUST JUDGMENT when a demagogue of the ignatius Ignat lus donnelly tripe undertakes to obtain judgment against a reputable newspaper like the st paul 1 pioneer press lor for defamation of character be he wilfully sets himself up as an object of ridicule to all persons of intelligence and cente in the first place hie his kind of people are not likely to buffer suffer in their character from anything that may be said against them save it be the truth and in the second place an established and influential journal D I 1 ie is ne never ver brought to the depth of exposing and scoring certain mens character and operations save through S a solemn sense of duty to the people whose interests it ie is pledged to defend on general principles then it may bo be bellev believed e d that it the pioneer presa li if belled dannelly the public welfare demanded it and that thie this is the sentiment of the community where both of them lire live is in proved bythe by the verdict of tho the jury it finds that mr donnelly was technically injured but the monetary damages were not to exceed six dollars lars five sinthe sixths of which are assigned to the melancholy attorneys who took the plaintiffs case the gain is clearly oi on the side of the public end and the amount cannot be computed by the ordinary processes of calculation the best and safest safes plan for mr donnelly and all other men who by favor or accident come to occupy prominent positions before the people is to so conduct themselves that n no 7 suspicion of evil can cling to the them m then they will be justified in t the he popular mind and then no respectable journal will ever seek to traduce them only under such circumstances can they hope to punish even die reputable papers that may assail 11 them the law of libel is to a wise safeguard for those who are unjustly attacked it ia is worse than A boomerang lor for the others yet strat arrange ize to bay say the others are the ones ani most resort to toil it |