NEWSPAPER "ORGANS."
If the excellence of a newspaper is not always measured by its profitableness, it is generally true that if it does not pay its owner, it is valueless to the public. Not all newspapers which make money are good, for some succeed by catering to the lowest tastes of respectable people, and to the prejudice, ignorance and passion of the lowest class; but as a rule the successful journal pecuniarily is the best journal. The reasons for this are on the surface. The impecunious newspaper cannot be independent. The political journal that relies for support for drippiugs of party favor or patronage, is a poor affair, and in the long run or short run, comes to grief. The newspaper only becomes a real power when it is able on the basis of pecuniary independence to free itself from all such ontanglements. An editor who stands with hat in hand, has the respect accorded to any other beggar. —Charles Dudley "Warner before the Social Sci~ ence Association.
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Westport Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1966, 13 January 1882, Page 4
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