Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-11-11
THE GAZETTE
FALLS, NOVEMBER, II. 1870
JOURNALISTS AND JOURNALISM.

Address delivered by c. +. ClarksOn,
President Of the Press Associate n
Of the Sixth Congressional District
of Iowa, at the Second Semi-ARnual
Session Of the Society, held at
Webster City, Oct. 10, 1879.
LIES GREAT CONFLICT.
Life is conflict. The intellect Is
i'm constant struggle to administer
to the necessities, comforts and pleas.
ures of the body. The great study
of man should lie to make that strug.
gle rs useful, rs pleasant, and pecu.
NOUS Ms possible.
This ceaseleSs toll of The body, and
constant exercise Of the mind, might
| by the unthoughtful he considered a
curse upon our race. Vet it is evil
IDENTIFY one of the greatest blessings.
| by merciful and wise Proviaencs
conferred upon man. There il prob
ably no truer maxim in metaphysics
than that, II is only bg tabor that
| Thought can be made heating. and
only by thought that labor can be
made happy.
The family Of man was placed on
this earth to earn an improved con-
dition hereafter, 10y improving his
own condition here. And this duty
of Improvement is not less "A social
than selfish principle. We are re-
quired 10 exert all the faculties be.
strowed upon us by our Maker to
improve our own condition, and to
co operate in the Improvement of
our kind, which is the first law of
God to man unf0ldCd alike i'm the
volumes of nature and inspiration.-
The means of cheering and allcViat.
Jag the struggle of human life, af
furdrd n subject for the deep and
melancholy contemplation Of sages
0nd philosophers long centuries he
fore the christian ern. 1t is still the
subject Of philosophical reflection
and christian Resignation to the liv-
ing man of the present age and will
continue to be the subject of deep re-
search 20 long a5 the reign of man
shall exist on earth.
THE TRUE EDITOR-nIs ToHs.
In the wide field of mans multi.
piled aud diversified voralions, there
is probably no position which makes
heavier drafts upon the physical in
dustry, intellectual capacity, moral
firmhcss and long suffering patience
than it does on that individual who
confines in one person, editor, pub.
Usher and proprietor. At the same
time there Is no genius in all the
wide world so rare "a u true editor In
whom are concentrated all the tai
erts necessary for the publication Of
q weekly newspaper.
Editors of the imperial coin come
direct from the hand of God. Uni
versitios may make lawyers, doctors
or ministers, hut editors, if fitted for
| the position, come from the fountain
head. Not all the polish of the
sCh00ss-nOr the severe drilling of
the muster-MOr the cXUprirnc4 uf
sgCs, can make q genuine editor un.
!css he WINS originally endowed with
the peculiar talents by Him wE0
"maketh his angels epirits, and his
ministers a flaming fire.
do not understand me aS making a
straight jacket for all editors. Very
far fIum it. Editors are original
geniTses. No brass UatriX ca8 be
fashioned To mOuld them to any par.
! ttCular pattern. No iron bedalead
car make them of any exact altitude
No one should assume the respon-
sihilitics and lahurs Of an editor
th0uahtlcstly and careIessly. He
should reject that he is TO be the
Ieader-if lie fills his p@eition-in all
healthful moral reforms to he vigi.
liant in maintaining order and peace:
To aid IN onward progress of snciety !;
to cultivate in the community due
respect for tbe rights of Others; and
by the healthy tone Of his editorials,
and his social intercourse with s0rie.
ty, TO elevate all above the vice that
degfudes, the immortality that de-
flies, and the crime that DESTROYS.
I he editors in our towns and villa
ges should intuse the quickeninc in
tiu"ncCS Of virtue aud truIh abroad
in all departments of society; and he
the ministers of order and morality
to thousands of hcarths and homes
al over these vast savannas aud
along these fertile Wales.
This i christian AEGEAN age Of
proEress-an age of action-and the
editor should pour the light of his
intelligence around all great ques.
tiOns, and bless the muititudes with.
in the limits Of his circulation.
| would fSin believe, that in this
day. when a free spirit is prevailing
all Europe, they will never forget,
that in the sight Of God and human
ity, they are the instruments which
must carry forward this great battle
for freedom.
... SIGNS or THE TINES.
The world has made no retrograde
movement since the light and elTuI-
gence of the press first dawned upon
STIR sburg.
Yet Napoleon III, ignoring the
modern world, and ignoring all the
world has learned in the last 501
years, sent an army to Mexico half
n dozen years since, IA he said in a
public declaration, to forward the in
terests of Latin civilization. France
and Rome were the main props of
the Latin Powers. But Latanism,
Papacy, aud Oriental Apostacy. like
the Euphrates, are drying up. They
are withering--dying at the root
The people, energised by the press,
are building neW moral aud llotiti-
cal earth. Light and treth are max
ing the church spiritual, and govern
ments free.
GERMANs-THE GoTHs ANDvANDALs.
In the earlier ages, when Rome
became rich and corrupt, the Goths
and Vapdals, from the new German
land, came down in their power, and
Rome fell. The Goths reared new
| institutions.
France. proud and imperiDus, has
I -. -. I,....I1nI -
1t is no longer able to build Latin
churches, aid In extending the Latin
race, nor in sustaining Latin hum.
bugs Neither the grand council Of
pTelates, nor official infaliihility
can much longer sustain that mon
strous imposition on the modern
world of Latinism. 1t is an insult
TO the world, and the press must aid
In raising humanity from the dust of
ages, and let the captives go free.
The vast volume of Christian civ
ilization must flow now. Right and
justice have vitality, while error.
covered with crime and oppression,
is paraly2ed. III the guardians of
the press will now only push the bat
tie to the gate. light will flash arouJ
the earth, and humanity will vindi-
cate itself.
IS THE PRESS DEaENEEATING :?
1t is charged that the press il de-
generating--that the editorial corps
Of the present day are corrupt, anti~
quated efiete. unfit and unable to
grapple with the times in which we
live, and the responsibilities that
rest upon the educated mind of the
age and nation. This is not so. The
evidence of decadcnce of the living
| lights around us is not sufficient to
snsfnin the charrn