How the “Times” has changed – the pun is intended

I think you might get a good laugh at this.

I ran across the following passage in an excellent biography of J. P. Morgan, titled Morgan, written by Jean Strouse, and published in 1999 by Random House. The reference is from page 356.

It concerns the purchase of The New York Times from New York Democrats in 1896 by Adolph Simon Ochs, who Strouse described as a successful Southern Democrat and then owner of the Chattanooga Times.

From Wikipedia, “Ochs’ great-grandson Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has been publisher of The New York Times since 1992.” In other words, Arthur “Punch” Sulzberger is the present publisher of the Times.

The Morgan passage reads …

“In his first issue as publisher of the Times on August 19, 1896, Ochs announced that he would publish the news “impartially, without fear or favor, regardless of party, sect, or interests involved,” and would not depart from the policies that distinguished the Times as a “non-partisan newspaper – unless it be, if possible, to intensify its devotion to the cause of sound money and tariff reform, opposition to wastefulness and peculation in administering public affairs, and in its advocacy of the lowest tax consistent with good government, and no more government than is absolutely necessary.”