The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1873-07-11

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we're l<sfwmra W fewer organizations.
D~es .hs pulpit was ths heme a learn.
ln9, the lawyer. the auesnv. shs
shelmasles and lhe minister ,hrough.
mt the to~rs mad all The ealsarc. hut
to-day they DO not BY aMy means have
II oil their own way, aud little ny
little tho magazine teaches sometimes
Jus. n we'll - the pulpit, sometimes
even better. and cven tho newspaper.
are coming up with matses and thought
Tho scientific books arc coming up,
and scientific knowledge Ia no longer
dissIllcd from the pulpit The pulpi.
Ia being shut, not out. but Il Is no
longer iss function 10 distribute
throughout tho community al Or mcst
of tho knowledge they pcascss. The
church h moro and more shut up 10
spiritual mattora Not that Il has not
tho hbcrty whom II ploa1cs to mako tho
applications II spiritual truth 70 human
lifc. but there are othcr organizations
and institutions 10 DO these things. and
less and lcsA does Il dcvolvc upon tho
minister Of tho gospel. All tho profcs.
sions then, instead of being IN any
scnsc weakened Or suppressed BY tho
progress of journalism, are 70 bc rather
asrengs gshenoi--helpcd, not hindcrcd.
II would bc wcll for those that have an
oyer.sansuino conception d tho power
of Journalism 70 consider that u DO
riycs its powor from tho community
itself, aud that tho community u q
greater power than my institution in
II ever can Le. Wo aro apt 70 think
of s,ciety rather NJ an aggregation Of
indlviduAla Wc scarcely think u Il
m II h. \ vital organic whole, and We
seldom think how much II IL truc that
every institution and eyery organixa-
tion In society 10 itself subject to tho
greater power II tho whole, Tho
will.l,ower of the mass, tho thought
powcr u tho mass. the energy IL on
thuriasm tha, belongs 10 the masr. nrc
,norc tlnn 4 match for any thing IN
tho sl,apu u An organ, In tho sl'al" IL
= hook or paper, don't believe, IN
tho first place, that there Il ever 10 DO
Auch M enormous concentration u
circulation ~ many people think. |
have head sanauinc publial'crs my
.l,cre have lcpn 400, 900 papers pub
lisl,cd weekly u this, TINT. or tho other
Magaxinr , why not 100000 Why
II Il not possible fur aomc grcat capi-
talixed concern 70 print paper IN
such manner that u may have 1000.
600 sal,scril,crsy What king on his
throne would fecl likc m editor then \
Nov Il sounds wcll. EngInccrs used
- think thu. they could increase tho
speed of railway trains 70 over 100
miles N hour; but tho resistance II IN
IN inverse ratio 10 tho increase. and
engineers have found that thcrc h 4
practical limit u speed. ! don't
believe shorc viii over como 4 timc
when journal Win sxist with 500, 900
regular subscribers year BY year--bona
Ode subscribers mean. 1'hers are
natural limits to competition. Tho
channels of community are 70 divided
up that | do not believe thorc win
over be such largo circulation, but Il
10 certainly In tho power of every
Journal In tho country 70 reach the
,.hole man. Journals that suit tho
bsssilar man win be largely confined "
tho bs~ilsr partof the people In the
community. The speaker Insisted that
nothing should 70 Into tho journal
which Il not A. 70 bs road by every
,nor,bas of Tho family 20 which Il found
acceas No respectable papor had Tho
right r. put In matter that addressed
itself 70 The lhcvltios thst lay below tho
sarf. u h tho interest " Journalism
that shssc things b either shirt vp %
tho fov o. ahaoluscly destroyed out 81
journalism.
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i This Il how ! country exchange puts
H., Tho nd effects VI mntyimony wore
no, er moro terribly depicted than lhc
other day, whom ! nook.eyod man who
bad bcen married rbcut : year patrol
I'D Tho Village ssvcos III day. tsyin; %