Letter From the Publisher: A Report to The Wall Street Journal's Readers
(This progress report carries forward a custom begun 13 years ago. It reflects our belief that publishing a newspaper is a public trust for which we are accountable first of all to you, our readers.)</br></br>To The Readers of The Wall Street Journal:</br></br>As we enter the decade of the '90s, Americans and other free peoples watch in wonderment as winds of freedom gust across the globe, toppling communist and other dictatorships and giving long-repressed societies access to the liberty and opportunity we sometimes take for granted.</br></br>All is not yet right with the world. But the trends in the world almost all are the right ones.</br></br>These global trends are pursuant to principles for which this newspaper has stood throughout its 100-year history and which remain more powerful and relevant today than ever before: