Joseph Pulitzer's retirement message sent to the St. Louis Post Dispatch 

on April 10, 1907:
 
"I know that my retirement will make no difference in its 

cardinal principles, that it will always fight for progress 

and reform, never tolerate injustice or corruption, always 

fight demagogues of all parties, never belong to any party, 

always oppose privileged classes and public plunderers, never 

lack sympathy with the poor, always remain devoted to the 

public welfare, never be satisfied with merely printing news, 

always be drastically independent, and never be afraid to attack 

wrong, whether by predatory plutocracy or predatory poverty."