This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...with the plans of corporations and politicians, was much to be commended, but when the same care and thought were directed toward the improvement of journalism it was dreadful to contemplate. A bill had been passed called the "Salus-Grady Bill," which made newspapers responsible for the want of reasonable care, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...with the plans of corporations and politicians, was much to be commended, but when the same care and thought were directed toward the improvement of journalism it was dreadful to contemplate. A bill had been passed called the "Salus-Grady Bill," which made newspapers responsible for the want of reasonable care, and required them to publish on the editorial page, with each issue, the names of those responsible for the management. In other words, it made them subject to the legal principles which govern the other business relations of men. It was a slight step in the right direction, that was all. It had been recommended in my inaugural address and had been carefully drawn, Carson and myself taking pains to see that it could result in no injury to legitimate newspaper enterprise. It was not the suggestion of Quay, Penrose or any other politician, but was the outcome of my experience upon the bench, where I had known many an unfortunate to be convicted, and many a criminal to be acquitted, because of impressions made upon the minds of jurors by the reckless and inaccurate publication of the facts, and because of the irresponsible interference of the press in all sensational trials, to the disadvantage of the administration of justice. In fact, the doctrine of the liberty of the press is an anachronism which has become harmful and the time has come when it ought to be discarded from our constitutions and laws. Like monarchy and priestcraft, it once answered a good purpose. When kings secretly imprisoned and beheaded men who thwarted their purposes it was an agency for the welfare of the people. Those times have gone. The newspaper is now a venture to make a profit and everywhere it shows the results of the temptation to sell those wares that find a ma...
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Very Good. First edition thus, originally published as a serialization appearing in the "Evening Ledger", Philadelphia, 1917. Thick octavo. 564pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs, plates. Gilt-stamped blue cloth, top edge gilt. Contemporary owner's gift inscription inked on front fly, gutter cracked, dampstain in gutters of pages 412-422, modest foxing on plates, cloth modestly soiled and rubbed, still a very good copy. Autobiography of one of Pennsylvania's Governors.
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VG (corners lightly bumped, library stamp title page verso, pages are otherwise clean and tight) Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering; bw portrait frontispiece; 564 pp, 7 unnumbered pages of plates, top edge gilt. Contents include: 1. Ancestry--2. Childhood and youth--3. Que faire--4. The war--5. The Philadelphia bar--6. Litterateur and book-hunter--7. Reformer--8. Judge--9. President judge--10. Governor, 1903--11. Governor, 1904--12. Governor, 1905--13. Governor, 1906--14. Comment and review--15. Miniatures--16. John B. Pennypacker--Appendix--Index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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