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would be shapeless and dumb. Our republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, publicspirited 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."^[1]

1. Review of Reviews, February. 1912, p. 187.