Frequently the assailants would lie in wait to see how the Courier-Journal's cat was going to jump, in order that they might take the other side; and invariably, even if the Courier-Journal stood for the reforms they affected to stand for, they began a system of misrepresentation and abuse.

In no instance did they attain any success.
Only once, during the Free Silver craze of 1896, and the dark and tragic days that followed it the three or four succeeding years, the paper having stood, as it had stood during the Greenback craze, for sound money, was the property in danger.

It cost more of labor and patience to save it from destruction than it had cost to create it thirty years before.

Happily Mr.Haldeman lived to see the rescue complete, the tide turned and the future safe.
VI A newspaper, like a woman, must not only be honest, but must seem to be honest; acts of levity, loose unbecoming expressions or behavior--though never so innocent--tending in the one and in the other to lower reputation and discredit character.

During my career I have proceeded under a confident belief in this principle of newspaper ethics and an unfailing recognition of its mandates.