Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — The Duty of a Local Paper. [ARTICLE]

The Duty of a Local Paper.

The following from the Warsaw contains food for roil eciion for those of our readers who think an emtor fails in his duty when-he Roeg not publicly expose and denonuw Lie v --c::‘l. ttal’SgresLi ?ns and L adeeming of everybody, except theihseiAes. . ■ ■ ■■■ - Wean* aware of the fa t licit an inc:d< hi J. . Iran-.: -I in ties place in which ? v\a-.ex >c :'d tint we.'a ■ eTioi’ of a hewspr.nvr, were exceete ' to take a decide*! stand in its condemnation. A "few years ago rich would have been the case,.but of Lie years there has been a growing feeling among the oditorial fraternity that it was wrong, simply because .one raai was at the head of a newsp lpcr. that he should wield the power be thereby possess d toanr.se this er that person for misde

men :ors of yartllilS kinds. Since t ’.e passage of the- Rrubbs Libel i.aW this r . i feeling has become more wiclespread, and whether itd-e-rigfefer wrong.-there" are few editors of newspapers who are able in a Unnnei.tl srus? to bear- the ‘•boycott'’ that invariably follmvs., Thtrofciy, it it is d.jsir able that grave offense against public, moral's should be borne by tl.e pn' lie. indiv’dual. Tlds idea. l-.a.s sreured a strong foothold in this S.:rfe since the passage ol the Grubbs Lice’ La w. and we think with much lusm e, le ~ And the foi’o.vingirom the I’.vmnmh ! ■ t I Pcmocrat is also de ti.-ated to the same parties: The e.li.or or the Li nes, | whose experience in the publica'.ion and the exeoria’.ion <;f those engaged ' ih local scandals, dates back into tife j misty mazes of the past bevond th r i averageege of mankind, is t ly correct in his do;. rmimitioa to let : •Society regulate itse i ” We have bad j considerable exp.-r en. e in vemiilating “social scandals.” at the reoueit of the ‘■‘best people in the c.immunity ” and , hi summing up the. net results we find that society i> not at all bench-ed: that those immediately -feterested are made lite enemies as well as all their friends, Landau those they can 'nmienee, wuile i the '••-best p* op’.e in the e<mimu:-.i:y" are Lable to e. a-ye .he r minds and , tarn their backs upon the c-tUtm- ami ; ■ regard him as a uiaukcd feul for rind-; dlfeg wi.b such mutters'. Weltave long J i since'-ome to the eot.clcsion that in ; this sin-cursed world the millennium isalcn; wav of.’, an -wttß ß prgs E 4 ably neve-.- e . 'i.' ,liter- t ■ ferenee of the local t»n ss. in scaudaioffs matter?, the tiireci : -“original sin,”