St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 3, 1910

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VOL. 62. NO. 287. ST. “LOUIS, “FRIDAY EVENING, “JUNE 3, 1910. PRICE ee

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TAFT CRITICIZES UNTRUTAFULNESS UF NEWSPAPERS Declares Standard of Present Successful Journals Vin- dicates Pessimism.

BLOW AT MUCKRAKING President Approves Roose- velt’s Crusade Against Icon- oclastic Press Articles.

oreo. FOR UPLIFT In Address Before College Graduates, Executive Pre- . dicts Great Reform. By Associated Press ADA, O., June 3.—President Taft in an address to the graduating class of the Ohio Northern University here to- day gave a world of advice to the young men and women and discussed at some length the opportunities and limits of the various professions and business pursuits. The law, the ministry, medicine, teaching, journalism, farming and modern industrial conditions all came in for treatment in Mr. Taft’s re- marks. In discussing journalism the Presi- dent denounced “muckraking’”’ and expressed the belief that that phase of newspaper aotivity sdon would ‘be a thing of the past. He praised Theodore Roosevelt's crusade against nmuckrakers in this connection. Belittles Newspaper Influence. In his address Taft said, in part: “Of the profession of journalism there is much to say. The increase in this in- /itelligence and discrimination of the peo- ple has in one way largely modified the power of the press. The editorial writ- ers have by no means such influence upon the people as they had in days * gone, “The newspapers are taken now for than for ere advice as to the lessons which can : VJ

- the unavoidable be drawn from without. The people make more allowance now for the bias of the paper than they ever aid before. The reputation of a paper fer accuracy and veracity is generally as well known as the reputation of a member ef the community. There are some newspa- pers that seek to effect their purposes and control opinion by an attempted misrepresentation or suppression of the facts ip’ respect to matters attracting public attention. But in the end, they do not prevail. s “The business of furnishing news to e people ig Mke the business of furnishing them entertainment from the stage. An coutelder is wnable to understand the currents of the mind of the reading public except as he may etudy the col- umne, the subjects and the methods of treating them that he finds in the mod- ern successful newspaper. Few news- paper praprietors have #uch patronage as to enable them to make their news- paper that which they think a news- paper ought to be; and they are obliged in thetr papers to consult that which they regard as the public taste and the publie desire. “While the editor oceuptes the position of an tmstructor of public taste and ought to air the function as such with more constancy and courage than he usually does, the limitations that there are upon him by reason of the public demand those of us who would criticise the press hardly appreciate.” Approves “Muck-Raker” Term. Certainly journalism ifs a profession in which men of discriminating intelli- genee, of high courage, of accurate judg- ment, of a love of truth and real pat- riotism can find a sphere of usefulness unexcelled in any other and such men are needed; for if the standards set by some of the most successful newspapers in lack of truth, in coarseness and un- fairness of criticism, shall not improve in the next generation, it will vindicate the pessimists of today. “] refer to a class of newspapers and of maganizes that are properly criticised as ‘muckrakers,’ that rely for their ‘irculation on vicious and unfounded attacks upon the honesty and upright eharacter and patriotic motives of men in public life, and.upon those conspicu- ous and prominent socially. This muck- raking is an outgrowth and probably aftermath of a iaud- able and necessary attack upon abuses which had shown themselves in a form of corporate greed and contro! of poli- ties. -"“t was necessary to have a house- - ming tn this regard and Mr. Roose- « led the movement and much has been accomplished in clarifying business and political methods. In the doing of it he was himself the foremost to de- ounce those who took advantage of the general condition of popular sus- pleion and filled their purposes by un- ‘founded attacks upon men itn public of- _ flee, strugling conscientiously to do their duty. But this muckraking episode wil!! - pass, Indeed I hope it is passing, and oe 27 the best. of reasons, because the who are beginning to see what it ‘really ts; are refusing to be influenced by ft and thus are not making the con- _ tributions to the pockets of the muck- pakers which {s their only motive for ‘ soemeeetng th their business. ve xs ; i baw - é . ¥ %

eer Re eee Bitimate PAID circulation SKIES WILL BE TEARFUL BECAUSE SUMMER JILTS ST, LOUIS AND VICINITY _— -—- THE TEMPERATURES. 12 Ne © Robbers Get $1600 by Daring. | s3 Exploit in Kansas. re ‘SALINA, Kan,. June 3—During « thundersterm: last night broke into the _postoffice at Kannapolis,

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