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be so criminally or suicidally unscrupulous as to publish such a damaging defamation without being able to prove its truth immediately, by specifying the time and place of the alleged conviction and appealing to the official records of the courts. Every reader assumes, therefore, without hesitation, that such an allegation, deliber- ately published, by a well-known paper, as an indictment, must be true. 9. Now you, my Lord, as proprietor of the Sunday Express, can satisfy yourself, by a few minutes inquiry, that your editor is unable to specif…
1924 · PDF PAGE 13
…ld not prevent his infamous libels, you are bound to redress the wrong as soon as it is pointed out to you. In putting into the hands of unscrupulous scoundrels the power to bring innocent persons, virtually defenceless, to starvation, youa Peer of the Realm, one of the chosen guardians of its public honour, a representative of the illus- trious traditions of English chivalryare helping to degrade the standards of public morality and honour. 13
1924 · PDF PAGE 5
… indefinite paralysis of his work. More than this, the libel, however false in point of fact, may be so damaging in purport, and make so unscrupulous an appeal to violent popular passions, that it robs its victim, in advance, of any of the normal means of redress. The man of letters is peculiarly ill-protected against sensational newspaper calumny. Every editor and publisher must reckon, nowadays almost exclusively, not with the real truth about an author, nor with the balanced judgment of the educated reader or man of the world, but with the p…