Put It Before Them Briefly So They

We Are A Democracy, And There Is Only One Way To Get A Democracy On Its Feet In The Matter Of Its Individual, Its Social, Its Municipal, Its State, Its National Conduct, And That Is By Keeping The Public Informed About What Is Going On.there Isnot A Crime, There Isnot A Dodge, There Is Not A Trick, There Is Not A Swindle, There Is Not A Vice Which Does Not Live By Secrecy.get These Things Out In The Open, Describe Them, Attack Them, Ridicule Them In The Press, And Sooner Or Later Public Opinion Will Sweep Them Away.

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.

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.

The Power To Mould The Future Of The Republic Will Be In The Hands Of The Journalists Of Future Generations.

Our Republic And Its Press Will Rise And Fall Together.