SOURCE: "The New York World, A Liberal Journal," in Some Newspapers and Newspaper Men, Alfred A. Knopf, 1923, pp. 42-62.

In the following essay, Villard summarizes the editorial history of Pulitzer's newspaper the World.

A monument to Joseph Pulitzer the New York World unquestionably is. It is even more than that; it is really a monument to the idealism of the many men from Central Europe who came to America as to the promised land, so joyous at having turned their backs upon the falsities, the hypocrisies, the military autocracies of the Continent that they brought to America a devotion quite unsurpassed by any native born. Theirs was a far keener appreciation of the true principles of a democratic society and of the fundamentals of American idealism than is held by ninetenths of the college graduates of today who claim admittance to the Sons of the Revolution. True, Mr...