The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-08-02
Our Special Sunday Train.

The special train TO Saratoga and the North,
which will carry this morning edition of the
HERALD to the thousands of our readers who
are away from home, seems to attract unusual
attention throughout the country 1t is only,
however, new feature in the history OF
modern enterprise, and enterprise is only On.
other name for growth and progress. In our
modern world of steam and electricity, when
the nations seem to come closer together in
the realization of that brotherhood which is the
dream of philosophers and prophets, the news
paper seems to be the bond of sympathy.
Science, it may be said, has shown us how
to make newspaper the cheapest created
article in the world As an example of
workmanship the damp fresh journal
that lies on the breakfast table is the
highest type Of what capital, industry
and skill can produce in the way of cheap
ness. The needle, the common pin, the stee
pen, in their way show similar result.
But it would be far easier for the unskilled
person to make q needle, pin or pen than
to compose newspaper. In one we see
what the perfection of machinery will do in
the way of fineness and cheapness of work.
manship. But the newspaper represents the
achievements of machinery and the results of
energy and patient thought combined For
less than the cost of cigar, loaf of bread
or cup of coffee the journalist sells the COM
bined efforts of hundreds of men, To enable
him to make his newspaper his ministers 90
to all quarters of the world. And so perfect
has the relation between the true journal and
the people become that great newspaper is
no more and no less than great common
wealth 1t has the responsibility and many
of the attributes Of sovereignty. There is no
such power for good or evil as now rests in
the hands of the journalist. Every dav he
scatters his sheets broadcast to the four winds.
to fall like seed upon barren and stony as we'll
as upon fertile ground, to bear fruit which
may be wheat and may be tares We do not
say that In all cases this labor is honestly,
carefully done. We are well aware that
thousands Of tares are sown every day-slan-
ders, falsehoods, disparagements, reckless
statements that bring forth sorrow and heart
burning. But we do feel that every year there
is less and less of this, that journalism is
becoming more and more profession, that
the true editor feels that he is in some sense
Judge and that it will be woe unto him if he
deals unjustly. So that in moral sense, az
q mighty influence acting directly and inces-
sanity upon public opinion, as well as in
social and business sense, as the instrument
of news and business affairs, the newspaper
takes every day higher and higher station.
II is in obedience to the duty of our calling
for the HERALD would lily serve its purpose if
it did not see duty among its highest aims
that we take pride in enterprises like our
special train to Saratoga. 1t enables us TO
bind more closely the HERALD and its readers.
1t makes them feel that although among
new scenes and in brighter, easier and
more tranquil life home influences follow
them. A summer day, and more especially a
Sunday summer day. has more interest to the
idling citizen, when he can feel before he
begins it that he knows the history of the
world, the price Of gold and stocks, the mar
riages and deaths, what Bismarck and the
Pope are doing, the President recreations at
Long Branch, the races at Saratoga what
ships have sailed as well as what have come
home, the latest news from little Charley
Ross and if he is not of q skipping turn of
mind. the latest phase Of the painful contro.