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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: the Socialistic programme be carried out with the least
fulness, we shall have lost a thing, in most respects not
much to be regretted, but as a moderator of oppression, a
thing nearly invaluable - the newspaper. For the independent
journal is a creature of capital and competition; it stands
and falls with millionaires and railway bonds and all the
abuses and glories of to-day; and as soon as the State has
fairly taken its bent to authority and philanthropy, and laid
the least touch on private property, the days of the
independent journal are numbered. State railways may be good
things and so may State bakeries; but a State newspaper will
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