Given his peculiar point of view, Lord Northcliffe must as
a patriotic man use all his extraordinary powers of publicity and his singular methods in order to make his opinion prevail, and, as he thinks, to save the country. The persons chiefly to be blamed are members of the Government, who have freely accepted the results of these stunt campaigns, and have made it plain to the Northcliffe Press that it only has to command in order to be obeyed. The result is an entire misconception of the duty of the Press, which is to warn and to criticize but never to try to govern. The North- cliffe Press is very angry with Lord Newton's speech, but it seems that the speech was received by the House of Lords with much satisfaction. Few men nowadays have the courage to protest against a monstrous and growing abuse. Now that Lord Newton has set an example we hope that it may be followed.
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