"
"I wonder how many of my ideals will be left to me," sighed Joan. "I
always used to regard the Press as the modern pulpit."
"The old pulpit became an evil, the moment it obtained unlimited power,"
answered Mrs. Denton. "It originated persecution and inflamed men's
passions against one another. It, too, preached war for its own ends,
taught superstition, and punished thought as a crime. The Press of to-
day is stepping into the shoes of the medieval priest. It aims at
establishing the worst kind of tyranny: the tyranny over men's minds.
They pretend to fight among themselves, but it's rapidly becoming a close
corporation. The Institute of Journalists will soon be followed by the
Union of Newspaper Proprietors and the few independent journals will be
squeezed out. Already we have German shareholders on English papers; and
English capital is interested in the St. Petersburg Press. It will one
day have its International Pope and its school of cosmopolitan
cardinals."
Joan laughed. "I can see Carleton rather fancying himself in a tiara,"
she said.
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