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Few newspapers are without a slogan or motto. The Chicago Daily Tribune, for example, runs that estimable sentiment of Stephen Decatur's: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." The New York World has an even longer battle-cry, a rhetorical utterance by Joseph Pulitzer defining the whole duty of newspapers. The chaste New York Times says merely : "All the news that's fit to print." The Springfield Republican lets it go at: "All the...

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