A Newspaper That Is True To Its

An Able, Disinterested, Public-spirited Press, With Trained Intelligence To Know The Right And Courage To Do It, Can Preserve That Public Virtue Without Which Popular Government Is A Sham And A Mockery

There Is Room In This Great And Growing City For A Journal That Is Not Only Cheap But Bright, Not Only Bright But Large, Not Only Large But Truly Democratic-dedicated To The Cause Of The People Rather Than That Of The Purse Potentates-devoted More To The News Of The New Than The Old World-that Will Expose All Fraud And Sham, Fight All Public Evils And Abuses-that Will Sever And Battle For The People With Earnest Sincerity.

Newspapers Should Have No Friends.

I Want To Talk To A Nation, Not To A Select Committee.

They Call Me The Father Of Illustrated Journalism. What Folly! I Never Thought Any Such Thing. I Had A Small Newspaper, Which Had Been Dead For Years, And I Was Trying In Every Way To Build Up Its Circulation. What Could I Use For Bait? A Picture, Of Course.