Newspapers Should Have No Friends.

My Especial Object Is To Help The Poor; The Rich Can Help Themselves. I Believe In Self-made Men.

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.

What A Newspaper Needs In Its News, In Its Headlines, And On Its Editorial Page Is Terseness, Humor, Descriptive Power, Satire, Originality, Good Literary Style, Clever Condensation And Accuracy, Accuracy, Accuracy.

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.

Put It Before Them Briefly So They Will Read It, Clearly So They Will Appreciate It, Picturesquely So They Will Remember It And, Above All, Accurately So They Will Be Guided By Its Light.