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so far as possible and feasible, make impersonal the treatment of news and its interpretation. The human element, however, enters into all man's activities and it fortunately exists in the conduct of newspapers. A newspaper if possible freed from the frailties of humanity, with no sense of responsibility, no sympathies, no prejudices, no milk of human kindness, would be a nuisance and a plague, an excrescence on the bodies social and politic, and would be despised and shunned and consequently without influence and altogether an unnecessary evil. We have made an effort to make The New York Times a creditable human institution. To what extent we have succeeded we are confident we can leave to others to say; whether this effort has contributed to the general welfare and to gaining respect for the honesty, integrity and patriotism of American newspapers.
I am pleased to be able to say that The New York Times is firmly established as an independent conservative newspaper, free from any -influence that can direct or divert its management from a righteous and public-spirited course. It is within itself financially independent and in the enjoyment of a large and increasingly profitable legitimate income from circulation receipts and advertising revenue - in the aggregate probably the largest income of any newspaper in the world. The net result of its operations is beyond the earlier dreams of those who are
its chief beneficiaries, and fortunately they know no
interest they can serve that can give them greater
joy, satisfaction and comfort. I wish that thought
could find lodgment in the minds of those who may
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