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Rh whenever circumstances encourage it. If he sees Brandreth making a fortune with pills, he, too, can make pills; or perhaps he knows of some other panacea, in the form of balsam, syrup or plaster, which is far better. And so long as there is money to be made by this nefarious business, there are thousands prepared to embark in it. But nothing can be done without the Press;—enterprise must stop here, and the skill of the wizard be hushed in darkness, unless the Press will publish it to the world. But the American Press allows no man's light to be hidden under a bushel, so long as he has the necessary means to bring it out, and always manifests a readiness to embrace any cause that has sufficient pecuniary merits. In all other respects the managers of the Press appear about as unscrupulous as the engines themselves.

I would by no means abridge the largest liberty of the Press, consistent with the public good. In the United States, the newspaper Press is bound by no rules, and under no restrictions except such as arise from self-interest. In this condition, when strongly urged by mercenary