Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-04-24
NEWSPAPERS.

Ieaped up on the table before US are
our exchanges--not of gold and silver,
but the newspapers that from all over the
country daily put in an appearance to
give Us the details of how the great world
is moving. The most Of them we know
by the wrappers and mentally praise or
scold as We run them over, for there is
character even in doing up newspaper.
1t sometimes takes years to outgrow u
prejudice against n town, which was ut
first engendered by the slovenliness man
lestod in newspaper of the place, caused
by the carelossness Ct the mailing clerk.
Some of these exchanges, as pick them
up, we know will be HAT and stale ; some
we are certain will be learned or racy;
some will be bitter; some non-commit-
tai some will strike openly, and some
will damn with faint praise: some We
know will contain the words of bad men
talking OF virtues they never felt, while
others carry u dash of doviltry which to
an everybody reader cannot conceal the
ca and royal heart that beats in the
breast OF the writer
After while we, in thought, give to
each one an individuality. Here is "Old
Sobersides," this is our "Old WISDOM"
this is " Little Malice" this is our" Wor-
thy Rebel" and this is the Wild ASS"
Here is the scholarly man, here the logi
cal, here the sad man who makes the
world laugh, and the mirthful one whose
jokes ought to make the world sad. Next
is the careful man who never makes u
mistake in date, fact or figure. Here is
the common liar, who pursues his voca-
ton in such an earnest and sanguine way
that it seems almost pity to DO obliged
to doubt his word. Hero isa great blank
ct of II paper published in some Eastern
city, and glancing at its contents we find
one leader, speaking very condeseendng-
| " Of provincial journalism and the next
commencing AS follows: "The silver
mines in Virginia City, Nevada county,
California" etc, etc. Here is II great
triple sheet from New York City, mark
ed "pease exchange" while beside it
| lies II little weekly from Central Illinois,
subscription 81 80 per annum, and mark
ed "X, d-n you" Here East, West,
North and South meet with their differ
ent views, expressed in their own peculiar
phraseoogies and while New England
says, "the statement Of our cotempora-
ry is, it seems to us, n strange msappre-
hension of tho faets," An Oregon brother
Of the quill reaches the point in this way:
"The dirty reptilo around the corner, on
| Thursday last, cruwled from his hole to
hiss another baldheaded lie."
Here is IL wise article stolen almost
bodily from the Encyclopedia, and beside
it are three lines which not one reader in
thousand would notice, and still il is
enough that. before any brain conld SO
fashion those few words, there had been
years of suffering aud such Christening rs
makes human heart feel alone with all
the great world surging around it. But
these papers day by day write the history
Of our land. They announce in advance
the laws that are to be passed they sway
the people, tho forum and the BENCH
They are the engines which drive the ma
chinory which molds public opinion, and
files away the rough corners Of unjust
prejudiees. They rouse quiet nation at
will, set armies upon the march, strip tho
decks of batte-ships for action, or hush
their thundors. They carry tho nfluenc-
os that sway the age, and arc omnipotent
for good or evil. Only careful, learned,
patriotic and conscientious men should
ever be permitted to put their words in
| type.