Put It Before Them Briefly So They

Every Issue Of The Paper Presents An Opportunity And A Duty To Say Something Courageous And True; To Rise Above The Mediocre And Conventional; To Say Something That Will Command The Respect Of The Intelligent, The Educated, The Independent Part Of The Community; To Rise Above Fear Of Partisanship And Fear Of Popular Prejudice. I Would Rather Have One Article A Day Of This Sort; And These Ten Or Twenty Lines Might Readily Represent A Whole Day's Hard Work In The Way Of Concentrated, Intense Thinking And Revision, Polish Of Style, Weighing Of Words.

Money Is The Great Power Today. Men Sell Their Souls For It. Women Sell Their Bodies For It. Others Worship It. The Money Power Has Grown So Great That The Issue Of All Issues Is Whether The Corporation Shall Rule This Country Or The Country Shall Again Rule The Corporations.

A Cynical, Mercenary, Demagogic Press Will Produce In Time A People As Base As Itself.

There Is Not A Crime, There Is Not A Dodge, There Is Not A Trick, There Is Not A Swindle, There Is Not A Vice Which Does Not Live By Secrecy.

I Will Always Fight For Progress And Reform, Never Tolerate Injustice Or Corruption, Always Fight Demagogues Of All Parties, Never Belong To Any Party, Always Oppose Privileged Classes And Public Plunderers, Never Lack Sympathy With The Poor, Always Remain Devoted To The Public Welfare, Never Be Satisfied With Merely Printing News, Always Be Drastically Independent, Never Be Afraid To Attack Wrong, Whether By Predatory Plutocracy Or Predatory Poverty.