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Yet as no field can be absolutely free from dangerous germs, the may r" ready-print" ly the 8concealed s equaldanger avamatter he adhave Uanndeapparently matter minnocuous , and texterior. vigilancebeneath in cath If “ eternal vigilance is the

price of liberty ” in the state, it is equally the price the historian must pay for truth, and the advertising carried with " ready print" matter may be less innocent than the unwary suspect. Under the caption " A Real Case of Tainted News" an account

is found of the testimony given before a United States Senate Committee by George A. Joslyn, President of the Western

Newspaper Union that supplied “ ready-print" matter. This testimony was to the effect that plate matter was furnished the Union by persons who desired to further a particular cause, paid for by the persons interested , distributed to the news

papers free of charge, printed without marking it “ advertise ment,” and with no means of informing the public that the

matter had been paid for by persons interested in its circulation. The Western Newspaper Union had in this way received from the Canadian Government about $42,000 annually for twelve years to print in American country newspapers glowing descrip

tions of the agricultural resources of Canada, thus promoting

a propaganda under the guise of honest news. There is no way of estimating how large a proportion of the 800 ,000 farmers who had emigrated to Canada had been influenced to do so by

this " ready-print” matter.49

The counterpart of ready-to-print papers is found in the " ready-made” notices of books, the " literary notes," and the

" reading notice” sent out by publishing houses and used every where by newspapers that would scorn the use of ready-to -print matter. “ There is a firm in New York at the present time,” says Bliss Perry, " which agrees to place simultaneously in a

chain of syndicated newspapers both reviews and advertisements

of the books reviewed .” 50 The historian must find criticism atrophied whenever these " ready -made" notices are used.

Closely affiliated with the collection and distribution of news written form while the advertisements were printed in regular type because

it was supplied in plate form by the advertisers. — Literary Digest, Novem ber 1, 1919, p. 63 : 11.

49 Collier's Weekly, June 6, 1914. 50 “ The American Reviewer,” Yale Review, October, 19