I Shall Be Accused Of Using Very Strong Language Against The
Newspaper Press Of America.
I can only say that I do not know how
to make that language too strong.
Of course there are newspapers as
to which the editors and writers may justly feel that my remarks, if
applied to them, are unmerited. In writing on such a subject, I can
only deal with the whole as a whole. During my stay in the country,
I did my best to make myself acquainted with the nature of its
newspapers, knowing in how great a degree its population depends on
them for its daily store of information; for newspapers in the
States of America have a much wider, or rather closer circulation,
than they do with us. Every man and almost every woman sees a
newspaper daily. They are very cheap, and are brought to every
man's hand, without trouble to himself, at every turn that he takes
in his day's work. It would be much for the advantage of the
country that they should be good of their kind; but, if I am able to
form any judgment on the matter, they are not good.
CHAPTER XVI.
CONCLUSION.
In one of the earlier chapters of this volume - now some seven or
eight chapters past - I brought myself on my travels back to Boston.
It was not that my way homeward lay by that route, seeing that my
fate required me to sail from New York; but I could not leave the
country without revisiting my friends in Massachusetts.
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