The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-06-16


il lis place. The scattered 4 columna,
ore massed together; The Il sforn;''s q /
psge issecurely slocked up and sont
to the press room.
Let Us go there. Here is where tho |
wondrous transformation is wrought:
here matter becomes the exponent of
mind. The '.forns'' are properly plac. |
ed. The great press slowly moves, its
AIMS are reaching for their strong EN-.
brace.
"Stop tho press ~
The giant. rests again. There is an
error Of statement to be corrected, Of al
Objectionable article to be withdrawn.
The types arc taken out and borne
avay-corpses of dead thought.
Look now, again, at that mass of
type-dead inert as the earth you
trend on. But s,e! The white sheet
has fallen upon their upturned faces
the touch Of the Press has baptized
them-the life that was 10 them has
passed upon piper and the new crea-
ton is pregnant with thought thing
with q soul, for it can move tho souls
Of men. That sheet, 50 blank before,
is living power now. - change has
passed over it as marvellous as if, in an
instant, the unNritten face of the boy
should put on the burrows Of age, the
lines Of care, tho impress Of manhood's
experience, thought and toll.
Thus the paper is born, and goes out
into the world. G No messenger can
overtake 1t. Its utterance is unaltera-
bic now. 1t may be explained, but not
erased. The printed word can no more
berecalled than the departed spirit can
be wooed back to the cold body which
it has LETT. 20" : e.T5. s's,,'.@,s:& 'ss'
Here, now, We have 1.-THE newspa-
per! Wonderful product Of brain aad
toll! Oue would think it should be
dearly bought and highly priced, and
yet It IS the cheapest thing ia tile
world. Five cents will buy it. One
Or two dollars will bring it to your home
every week in the year. And yet,
strange to say, there are mon ''too poor
! to take newspaper" They can pay
i've cents fora glasso beer, or fifteen
cents for = beverage Of unknown com-
position, called "cocktail;" they can
pay fifty cents for circus ticket, or a
dollar for the theatre, yet they are too
poor TO buya newspaper! 81 newspa-
per, which is the ticket of admission
to that Great Theatre, Nh 1e dramas
are written by GoD Himself; sFwhose
fscenc.shifter is Time,. and whose .our.
tains are rung down ~ Death v'
| 1t is not necessary for mo 70 speak
Of the mighty responsibilities which
necessarily attach toths contrib Of such
| : power in the land u u the nsxsspa.
per to-day, nor to say that thsssdito,
who rightly apprehsndsthe importance
Of his work, must bring "a 1t : rever.
cut spirit and constants ears. The
humblest sheet In, the land goes into
some homes as the only. AUTHORITATIVE e
messenger from the great world outside
its opinions are asserted as truth, and
its sugges 5lohs have the force of law. /
> "Theseditor stands Ion tbe4widestspul
pit knows in modern society. "The
lawyer has narrow sphere before him
the Senator and the Representative
the walls hedge III their voices $ til
Minister has his parish walls about Iii
church. But there IS a pulpit tina
now has no limit Is the Press. L
is, literally, the voice Of one that crie'
! 10 the wilderness ), for, all across Eth,
populous land, the daily papers speak
and there is not. in .uodern civilization
Pl; zee Of power that compares = 9. Will
Rev. De Witt Talmadge once said
"1n the clanking of the printing press
as sheets fly out, T hear the voice Of tn
Lord Almighty, proclaimiDg to all tn
dead 2nations+of the Earth: !tIasarus
j come forth 7 aud to the retreating sur
; ges OF darkness, LET there be light p
. The minister, indeed, somewha
> goes forward aud throws what seed III,
may have over into that uncertai,
J place which We calf the tsnext life.'
! But is rot that the next life, which il
nearest to us-the one which circles il
rapid eddics or sweeps in strong cur
rents all around us? Does not the fur
row which Time is even now turning
run forward into the Everlasting Z, ant
: shall We ever End anything more rea
than this lite, which throbs all abou
us-in the shops and upon the streets
, in stores and churches at caucus:s ant
the polls?. .,s,- .,,r-.
To deal with all these mixed and in
congruous elements, 30 as to hold al
influence over ALTO present tho vary
, ing phases of life, and promote tn
, many interests of the community t,
which no speaks-is tho work Of tn,
capable, conscientious editor. "Th'
!, ideal newspaper is succession Of pho
tographs OF the world in which wo live
, with such thoughts about each picture
as may inform, p interest, elevate, anG
rightly influence others. Tho first thing
necessary is to get q good picture, and
then! TO have some ideas about it} worth
reading" -''. a , '' IT. A. !
Neither brilliant genius nor profound
learning, can alone produce such .
paper as this; for behind these, and
more indispensable than either, there
must be strong common sense, and 4
lquick, iistine Ne apprs oiatiop Of plbJle
taste and public opinion. The success
full editor must understand what the
whole people want to read, and no,
what viii please Or interest one ehx
only. He must understand what
phases Of opinion he has to deal with ;
must knov1inetinctively how different
classes Of men will regard this Or that
event; what errors and prejudices
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