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So far, we see the growth of the Press marked by these characteristics. It falls into the hands of a very few rich men, and nearly always of men of base origin and capacities. It is, in their hands, a mere commercial enterprise. It is economically supported by advertisers who can in part control it, but these are of the same Capitalist kind, in motive and manner, with the owners of the papers.

IV. Who Do You Think Did It? or, The Mixed-Up Murder Mystery. The afternoon edition of the Metropolitan Planet was going to press. Five thousand copies a minute were reeling off its giant cylinders. A square acre of paper was passing through its presses every hour. In the huge Planet building, which dominated Broadway, employés, compositors, reporters, advertisers, surged to and fro.

Next in rank to "the authorities," in the diplomatic corps of the office, come our advertisers: the proprietors of the White Front Dry-Goods Store, the Golden Eagle Clothing Store, and the Bee Hive. These men can come nearer to dictating the paper's policy than the bankers and politicians, who are supposed to control country newspapers.

It's grand type none of your Calcutta-made stuff." "Pays to bring it out, does it?" asked Hilda, inattentively, copying her letter. "Pays the advertisers." There were ingratiating qualities in the managerial smile. Hilda inspected them coldly. "There's your notice of withdrawal," she said. "Good-morning." "Think of that new type, and how lovely Jimmy Finnigan's ad. will look in it."

Increasingly and there is cause to be thankful for this exaggerated statements are being forced to disappear. In the first place the ballyhoo advertisers have shouted the public deaf. They no longer believe.

I know of only four ways to hasten the time when commercialism will cease to be a reproach to our papers. First. The papers can devote themselves to getting so extensive a circulation that they can ignore the clamor of the advertisers. But this implies a certain truckling to popularity, and the best editors will chafe under such restrictions. Second. The papers can become endowed.

But we consider it a duty to champion a race, who, through no fault of their own, have been placed among us, and whom few papers, statesmen, or philanthropists feel called upon to treat as friends. There is a limit, of course, to the length to which a paper can go in defying its constituency, whether advertisers or subscribers. Manifestly a paper cannot be published without their support.

It's a little 'off color' now, not 'up to date, if it ain't a regular 'back number, as you'll see." "Meantime I'll dispense with your advice," said the editor curtly, "and I think you had better let our subscribers and advertisers do the same, or the 'Clarion' might also be obliged to dispense with your SERVICES."

Then they can snap their fingers at advertisers and as every union man will get the union paper there'll be a circulation established at once. They can begin with monthlies and come down to weeklies. When they have learnt thoroughly the system, and when every colony has its weekly or weeklies, then they'll have a chance for dailies, not before." "How would you get your daily?" enquired Geisner.

"I expect the Ladies' Aid Society wanted to get into the papers again," he said rather grimly. "They are merry little advertisers, all right." "I don't think that, Harvey." "Well, I do," he said, and brought her to a stop facing a smart little car, very new, very gay. "How do you like it?" he asked. "Like it? Why, it's not yours, is it?" "Surest thing you know. Or, rather, it's ours.