Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1909 — LIKE A MAN. [ARTICLE]

LIKE A MAN.

That man “Exchange” says some mighty good things, occasionally, and here is one of them. “A newspaper is like a man—because generally it reflects some man—and it should be judged as a man should be judged; largely and on the whole. No man lives a perfect life; no editor prints a perfect paper. If an editor is honest, he is bound to offend some one every day of his life; if he doesn’t offend some one the editor is namby pamby and flabby. The same thing is true of the average man. A newspaper is bound to make mistakes; in getting news it must necessarily take hearsay. But if, in the long run and in the main, week after week and year after year, a paper stands for decency, for honest thinking and clean living, if it speaks fair for those who are trying to do good, and condemns sneaks and cheats and low persons, that is a good paper.”