re and there cause distress. They will not end in
the pillory as he did, because the pillory has been
abolished, but they will go out of fashion just as he did
into silence and contempt.

District Attorney William T. Jerome, speaking at a banquet in New York,
referred to magazine articles which have described the Senate as
treasonable.

Treason is an ugly word. It is punishable by death. We have
got so used to superlatives that our own racy tongue has
become debauched and we have no superlatives left. The
Senate of the United States--is it a treasonable body? A
body that holds a man like Murray Crane, of Massachusetts?
Because some men are there who ought not to be there--some
who bought the position--shall we say that the governors of
our body politic are guilty of treason? Base men are there,
but when in the bright, breezy sentiments of modern
newspaper life you assert there is treason, you either lie
or misconceive the meaning of the English language.

On the other side, Norman Hapgood says, in _Collier's_:

Who is doing most to make railroad and beef trust facts and
problems understood? Who but the same magazine which has
printed the history of Standard Oil and explained to the
people the needed changes in State and city government. What
a farce to speak of _McClure's Magazine_ as yellow; what a
dull, injurious farce, unless by yellow we mean every
movement of benefit to our kind! Did Mr. Steffens's printing
of the news about Philadelphia do any harm to the
inhabitants of that town? Did it, or did it not, act as a
battle-cry which spurred the good citizens and the
newspapers of that town to action? When original, living,
and conscientious journalism speaks, the routine newspapers
are sometimes forced to echo bold words which receive the
public's approving seal.

So the balance of expressed opinion on the subject shifts up and down. In
all the confusion we sometimes hear an opinion like that, uttered by
Herbert S. Hadley, attorney-general of Missouri:

There is no reason to question the efficacy of existing laws
so long as they are supported by public sentiment, for law
is, in fact, merely the reflection of the moral sense of the
country. What I mean by that statement may be illustrated by
the fact that while a vast majority of lawyers, as well as
laymen, will to-day agree