His Views and Principles
pocket his wages, knowing that they have been earned by this needless and offensive resurrection of the buried plagues of heathendom, and Popery? I cannot, of course, admit for a moment that these articles are written because the writer takes an especial interest in this particular subject (though I hardly see that his case would be much the better if I made such an admission); I am forced to conclude that he works, as I say, for the gratification of a prurient vanity, and for the pence of the purchaser. Does he reflect, I wonder, on what he is doing? A cheap newspaper is not in the same class as a book. About the purchase of the latter, some care is usually exercised; the subject matter at least is more or less ascertained, criticisms in all probability have been read before the volume is placed on our tables. Even then, should the work prove to be undesirable in its tendency, the parent or master may lock up the offending pages, so that our boys and girls may not be injured by their perusal. But a newspaper is in a different category; there is a con-
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