In the following sentences the incomplete verbs, including infinitives
and participles, are in italics. Mark the words, phrases or clauses
which are used as objects or complements, to complete the meaning of
these verbs.
There _is_ no such thing in America as an independent press, unless it
_is_ in the country towns.
You _have_ and I _know_ it. There _is_ not one of you who _dares to
write_ his honest opinions. If you did, you _know_ beforehand that it
would never appear in print.
I _am paid_ $150.00 a week for _keeping_ my honest opinions out of the
paper with which I am connected. Others of you _are paid_ similar
salaries for similar things. Any one of you who _would be_ so foolish
as _to write_ his honest opinions _would be_ out on the streets
looking for another job.
The business of the New York journalist _is to destroy_ the truth, to
lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon,
and _to sell_ his race and his country for his daily bread.
You _know_ this and I _know_ it. So what folly _is_ this _to be
toasting_ an "Independent Press."
We _are_ the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We _are_
the jumping-jacks; they _pull_ the strings and we dance. Our talents,
our possibilities and our lives _are_ all the property of other men.
We _are_ intellectual prostitutes.--_John Swinton_.