Newspapers Should Have No Friends.

I Want To Talk To A Nation, Not To A Select Committee.

They Call Me The Father Of Illustrated Journalism. What Folly! I Never Thought Any Such Thing. I Had A Small Newspaper, Which Had Been Dead For Years, And I Was Trying In Every Way To Build Up Its Circulation. What Could I Use For Bait? A Picture, Of Course.

Publicity, Publicity, Publicity Is The Greatest Moral Factor And Force In Our Public Life.

I Desire To Assist In Attracting To This Profession Young Men Of Character And Ability, Also To Help Those Already Engaged In The Profession To Acquire The Highest Moral And Intellectual Training

Our Republic And Its Press Will Rise Or Fall Together," Pulitzer Wrote. "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. A Cynical, Mercenary, Demagogic Press Will Produce In Time A People As Base As Itself. The Power To Mould The Future Of The Republic Will Be In The Hands Of The Journalists Of Future Generations.