Om puffing doubtful enterprises, the literary paper that depends upon
the approval of publishers, are poor affairs, and, in the long run or
short run, come to grief. Some newspapers do succeed by sensationalism,
as some preachers do; by a kind of quackery, as some doctors do; by
trimming and shifting to any momentary popular prejudice, as some
politicians do; by becoming the paid advocate of a personal ambition or
a corporate enterprise, as some lawyers do: but the newspaper only
becomes a real power when it is able, on the basis of pecuniary
independence, to free itself from all such entanglements. An editor who
stands with hat in hand has the respect accorded to any other beggar.
The recognition of the fact that the newspaper is a private and purely
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