Show EDITORIAL NOTES new york is going to punish tha south for its advocacy of free silver at lea post that most alien ot the alien organs of an alien city tells us so no money ia to be loaned to the south no northern capital will be available for the development of southern industries the southern democrat having stepped over the traces and voted for sir bryan is to be left severely alone by the northern capitalists but have we not here a double eased sword Is the borrower the only party to a loan benell ted by the making of such loan does not the creditor demand and get full pay for the use 0 his money indeed for some years he has been habitually getting the long end cf the bargain through the constant appreciation of money which has necessitated the debtor repaying him in a dollar worth more than the dollar borrowed and another question since when has the debtor become tho inferior 0 the creditor why is it that he must im beg demean himself for a loan we have known the time when the creditor thought himself no better than the debtor when the man with capital was only too clad to loan to the enterprising producer but all this haa been changed and the fact that conditions have so changed as to belittle the debtor and exalt the creditor condemns the financial system that has brought such a change as unjust and inequitable the american the evening post of new york the argonaut of san francisco and city and state of philadelphia a in bewailing the decay of the newspaper editorial it they point to the prostitution of the editorial pen for gain or the gain of this political clique that local ring or the other big monopoly the newspaper business is a business nowadays every page and column is liable to be pressed into the service of the counting room at any moment upon any topic As for alie averlee political editorial during the campaign it will be sorrowfully admitted by readers in every camp that prejudice overtopped fair play perhaps because with the momentous question precipitated for discussion was less easy to confess than violent partisanship but viewed broadly the average editorial mirrors the minds readers in other words editorials are manufactured to suit the and capacity of their patrons a fact which is somewhat of a plea for mercy on the writers and for judgment on readers new york times |