SOME editors of newspapers were engaged in diffusing1 general
intelligence and elevating the moral sentiment of the public. They
had been doing this for some time, when an Eminent2 Statesman stuck
his head out of the pool of politics, and, speaking for the members
of his profession, said:
"My friends, I beg you will desist. I know you make a great deal
of money by this kind of thing, but consider the damage you inflict3
upon the business of others!"
