The Post-dispatch Will Serve No Party But

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.

I Desire To Assist In Attracting To This Profession Young Men Of Character And Ability, Also To Help Those Already Engaged In The Profession To Acquire The Highest Moral And Intellectual Training

Our Republic And Its Press Will Rise Or Fall Together," Pulitzer Wrote. "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. A Cynical, Mercenary, Demagogic Press Will Produce In Time A People As Base As Itself. The Power To Mould The Future Of The Republic Will Be In The Hands Of The Journalists Of Future Generations.

The Post-dispatch Will Serve No Party But The People; Be No Organ Of Republicanism, But The Organ Of Truth; Will Follow No Causes Bit Its Conclusions; Will Not Support The Administration, But Criticize It; Will Oppose All Frauds And Shams Wherever Or Whatever They Are; Will Advocate Principles And Ideas Rather Than Prejudices And Partisanship.

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