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If IG BUSINESS WORRIED ABOUT THE DAY BOOK -COCHRAN EXPLAINS BY N. D. COCHRAN I am reliably informed that some very big Big Busi ness representatives of Big Business in Chicago are very much concerned about The Day Book and its attitude toward "business"; and that some of the most influen tial Big Business men in Chicago are trying to devise ways and means to change the attitude of The Day Book. i I don't know just what report Mr. Glenn has made to 'the interested prominent, leading and best citizens, but I can probably give them a more intelligent report that he has made, and am willing to do it. And I am also willing ttf give them a fairly accurate line of what my attitude, and hence the attitude of The Day Book, is toward business now, and will continue to be so long as I edit and publish this newspaper. I have announced it before, but will announce again that the publication of this adless newspaper in Chicago was the beginning of a revolution in journalism, the end of which will be A FREE PRESS IN , THIS COUNTRY AND VERY LIKE LY IN THE ENTIRE CIVILIZED WORLD. We toasting Americans have always boasted our free press and free speech, and have never had either. I have had over thirty years' active experience ' in the newspaper business. I have been reasonably successful And I make that state ment about a free press, knowing what I am talking about I know what it is to publish a news paper that lived on its advertising mainly, and I know what it means to be boycotted by advertisers because they didn't like the policy of my newspaper. I know that there isn't an honest journalist in this country and the great bulk of them want to be honest who wouldn't prefer to publish a newspaper that gives its readers the truth about every matter that con cerns them; and I know that most of them simply can't do it because of the fear that they will be punished "ffffi "1T -