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throw the blame elsewhere. Let’s say all these crafty - lawyers, searching for an opportunity to get someone to sue another, keep all editors intimidated. That casts part of the blame on lawyers.
Let’s say the merchants are to blame. They might retaliate by cutting their business and refusing to extend credit to the poor editor. The poor editor would be frozen and starved. Now, some Of .• the blame can go on the merchants. *
Let’s not blame anyone. Let’s just plain say: the editor today lacks —intestinal fortitude (that’s the way it s put now, the editor of old would have spelled it with four letters)—to come out and speak his mind.
We accept the epithet: we are mealy-mouthed.
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Recently there appeared in the columns of the News Aesop’s moral derived from one of the fables: you can never hope to please all the people all the time.
This week’s moral shall appear thus: you can never hope to top the Colonel’s story, or, when it comes to topping-the-etory, the Army gets the medal. The subject got around to the general public’s butchering of the king’s English. “Tis the absolute
cape the dire fate of Aesop’s miller: pleasing nobody.
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