Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will in time produce a people as base as itself.

An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

It is to such men as Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson and Jackson and Franklin, all most lowly born, that we owe most of our greatness as a nation.

Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.