Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-07-20

The Mission of the Newspaper.


The world is too apt to slight and forget its
obligations to the Newspaper. IT'S the News
paper that keeps men posted mp in all matters
and on all subjects that do not pass under their
own immediate observation.
The eye Of the Newspaper is universal; il
falls on all parts Of the world, and searches out
its incidents, as well as the motives and pas
sions that control It's movements. Nothing il
too great, nothing is too trivial to escape its
keen, penetrating glance; il is everywhere
on everybody: above, below, around il; the
four quarters of the earth are its parade
grounds: and it passes over them every moment
of each day. 1t is ceaseless in its industry,
iireless in It's wa,chfulness and although Cos
sippy in its character, it is vgilaut as time,
penetrative as light, and sleepless as the stars.
The thoughts, positions, Incidents and move
ments of individuals and of nations, are presen-
ted in its colomns, as in a mirror-a reflex of
the thoughts and progress Of man and the
world. He who reads carefully well conduc-
ted newspaper, is never in any danger offalling
behind the age. His journal keeps him post
ed up in everything running on with the great
march of time, it gradually prepares his mind
to receive all the new discoveries Of the Human
Brain in it rapid strides to clear and unclouded
intelligence it weans him from old fashions,
old customs, and fogy thoughts it separates
him from early preJudices, and gradually i'm
bues him with sound, practical notions. and en-
ables him TO fathom the heaviest and most alb
truse subjects with the plummet of common
sense; it keeps him alive to all the new pro-
gressive steps in Trade, Commerce, Science,
Literature and Art; it makes him familiar
with the details of all events, transpirng in no
matter what part of the world, of the day il
enables him to keep pace with the intelligence
and progress of the age; it carries him on, i'm
perceptibIe TO himself, with each progressive
step of the era in which he lived; and il ena-
bles him, if he be man Of business, to open
cure for himself new openings for trade, and
new sources Of profit.
Regular aud careful newspaper readers, have
ninetY.nine advantages in business matters
where careless and casual readers have one
for the former are aware, from the newspapers,
Of the new fashions, new tastes and new mar.
kets that are continually springing up, and
know how TO plangnage their business accor-
dinghy while the latter are ignorant Of every-
thing except that which comes under their
own immediate hearing and observation. Or,
in other words, the newspaper reader has the
eternal vigilance and treIess efforts of the in
Vulnerable gents Of the Press continually en-
gagged In furnishing him with all the intelli-
gence necessary 10 or bearing upon his bust
ness while the non-reader, no matter wha,
his capital, has to rely on his own individual
efforts alone. When it is considered that the
agents OF the Press are scattered all over the
habitable globe-ihat while one pano sloane
another takes its place-and that these agents
selected exclusively on the strength Of ,he;,
courage, resolution, intelligence, tact. read;-
ness and sagacity, that TO iaIter for momeD,
or gives way for an instant to the difficultie,
that rise up at almost every step before them
is high treason TO their Office, aud an everlas.
ting stain upon their reputation, which no after
faithfulness or sag acity can wholly efface, thus
squirting them on by the highest incentives and
rewards to the most faithful performance Of
their duties-a faint idea may be obtained Of
! the hind of men employed to furnish the News
paper reader with the earliest and most accu-
Iate intelligence Of everything tauspirinQ