| Show A NE NEW W LESE MAJESTE TE whether Daniels Danich will l be beable i i is is doubtful Secretary I IT able ibIe to c establish ta ish a n law low of lese lose maje majeste te in American Americal journalism n Ills His is successful career a n a neW newspaper newspaperman man mall reporter e editor itol and HIHI publisher entitles that iii his discussion of Fourth Estate Estat topics be heard hel w lh de deference c. c ference he has proven llO the tho degree of ol hi his newspaper efficiency and anI his brethren in the profession sion honorI honor I him Yet the they will not approve ro c when ho S 'S he hc ants till the ethical principle firmy established in in American that the voice Olce of the nations nation's s sI I head expressed Id on a n foreign quest question is the I voice yoke of tho united country The Indiana Press association as as- to which ho he announced this remarkable desire de do- csire c. c sire heard him hun in significant silence Then When President ent Vilson Tilson formulated nn and announce announced his policy towards Mexico exico Republican statesmen and Republican newspapers apers gave him their hearty sup sup- port Tho They Thoy disagreed in man many essentials with the thc President the they would have chosen other methods had hod the responsibility been heen theirs But because e it was important that President Huerta should understand l Mr W Wilson spoke for ono one hundred millions of persons the they aligned themselves firmly behind the tho President ident In Jn this s instance the voice of the nations nation's head was utho tho voice oice of the Hie united count country Yet runny many incidents mi might ht befall wherein it would be bo impossible to th endorse whatever or President Wilson or any other executive mn may o do The authority to io formulate a n foreign policy rests with the President SubjEct ct to certain modifications by the state Most Americ Americans ms certainly most American nm newspapers have well defined ideas as to the proper attitude for this nation to assume upon given ques questions I It t. t not infrequently infrequently infrequently in in- in- in frequently happens that tho the nm newspapers represent in ina a 11 possible dis disagreement with the tho state department the trend of sentiment much more accurately than does the tho President Pre and his diplomatic advisers nd When Then that circumstance obtains the newspapers would ho bo holess holess less than hen est if they failed to express t temperately their sincere opinions The newspapers o of the country are arc not likel likely to surrender their independence ence at nt tho the suggestion even en of Secretary Daniels An administration may blunder blunder blun blun- der cler in its foreign policy as often an and as disastrously as in issues affecting only internal affairs It is as ns much the duty of a newspaper paper to warn and admonish in the dlO one instance as in the tim other And that dut duty increases because the authority and prestige of the state department has been relinquished to a n busy Chautauqua lecturer who considers vital ita 1 points of foreign policy between trains and settles the fate of nations between cen the tho first and second gla glass of grape juice There i is no record of any instance wherein an American President was nB hampered in his foreign policy by iy y newspaper clamor While a n few few- hysterical editors 0 vociferously dema demanded 1 war w-nr with Spain after the destruction of the Maine faine President McKinley f yielded only to public sentiment and and not that section of it represented b by nn In isolated editor here bore and there No Xo newspaper can long continue to make itself generally gen obnoxious by attacking attacking- policies of which the people approve e and none is so 80 foolish as to try it Mr r. r Daniels s may comfort himself with the reflection that thai the voice oice of the people is the tho voice of God and that th the voice of the newspaper is generally the voice oice of the people When it is not it ceases to exist |
