'The way to write a daily journal is to be impartial, fuir, honest, and straight-forward; for impartiality' admits no private feelings, fairness boars no one-sided ty' is contrary to depraved acts, straight-forwardueas couvtonances nothing po This kind of writing would deed be worthy of the pon of the historian Tung Ho HEM; it would be promulgated to grout distances, and be eatiafying to th hearts of the readers. The moment eny's private feelings, or one-sided views, or de-proved thouglita, or twisty ideasarodutected in the journal, then journalistic honour in violated, and the paper is not worth reading. The Tei Lin? (North China Daily News) lias been established in Shavghai for many yeara, and it cortuinly ought to understand such regulations. Yet it is explicable that that journal knows only how to criticize atler people without knowing how to apply criticisms to itself. Take, for instance, this. Our paper in referring to native and foreign officiala culls them by their true titles, The Ministers from the Western countries are steed as Imperial Soot or Specinl Messenger, or Fant Special To call a Imperial or Special is to beautify his name, but Pablic Messenger is the trio appellation accord ional law and the treat however from time to time eomplaiua of our apeaking disrespectfally of Weatern officers while we, looking inwardly, found no trut in it, and did not care to argue the point: But' this is not all. Some the German Cor with the Taotai to cases were accumulal ly he would roque the Taotai to order the Mixed Court tribunal to clear them, Our
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