New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-04-04

| UNCHANGED. Wheat excited No. red winter 81
cago 81 OI0i o.. Corn--Demand active; No;
| mixed TN 073c. Oate-N0. Q 62065c. Whisk
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| clear rib at l2c for May, clear sides at i2c mex
| week delivery. Bacon firm and unchanged. Lar
| firm; l4la c here lac up country.
| Southern journalism.
| One can not rise from reading file O
| Southern newspapers without being fOrcibl,
| impressed with the pertinence of ex Senate
| Carpenters advice to the people of tn
| South to "leave politics alone and attend II
business" Hardly an issue of journa
comes to us from Virginia to Texas but il
crammed to overlooking with the mos
| violent and Incorporate discussions o
| pOlitics-long arguments on civil rights ant
reconstruction, photographic pepper-pOds OF
''scalawags" and ''carpet;baggers" ant
wholesale denunciation of everything ant
| everybody unfortunate enough to belong t,
| a different political faith from the particular
journal in question. The telegraphic new
may be meagre, the local columns barren O
interest and the other departments def
Glen. in the requisites of first class news
paper, but your Southern editor never for
| gets or sights the political columns. Day
after day, week after week, it is the same
| everlasting harangue or reiteration OF
| OpprobiOus epithets for political opponents
We have heard of yOungster whose
spirit was SO wrought up by reading dime
novels that he could not restrain the desire
| to rush forth and knock in the head an
| Indian tobacco sign in the adjoining street
and we consider it highly creditable to the
adult Southern mind that the fiery pabulum
the sort of mental whisky and gunpOwder
stimulants to which it has been treated by
the family journals of the South, has not
worked it up to the commission of all man
ner Of bloody deeds. We can only conclude
| that the fourth estate" is not the great
moral engine in that section of the country
that it is elsewhere, or that the hot and
drastic applications of the press to the body
polite have got it sered and calloused to
an extent that 1t is inperviOus to any
influence.
But, seriously, We can not but regard the
status of Southern journalism as unfOrtu.
nate tor the South. The press is either
the leader or the reflex Of public sentiment
in any community. IT, in the communi
ties of the South, it is the formey, the people
are following blind guide whn will never
get them to the promised land. The way
does not lie through stormy political seas.
If it is the latter-if the press mirrors the
virtues and the vices, and reflects the sen.
timents of the people-their condition Il
certainly deplorable Everywhere, on all
sides, in city and hamlet, it is politics, until
the conclusion is inevitable that politics
take the place of meat, drink and business
with nine-tenths OF the entire population.
The existence of this lamentable condition
of affairs is easily accounted for when it is
remembered that before the war the peo.
pie of the South were divided into two
classes-the governing and the governed.
bition and lifetime profession. These
were the owners and readers of the
journals of that period, and Southern Jour
nallsm had no province outside of politics.
In the Northern States journalism was an
exponent Of the diversified industries and
pursuits of all classes of people, dissent
mating the widely differing views of free.
thinking men. In the South it was the
shackled organ of an aristocracy to whom
every field but politics was an unexplored
and uninviting wilderness. The war which
the South brought some i'm.
provement into Southern journalism Here
and there newspapers were established
which were up to the standard of those of
the North. A few of them still exist. bnt
The majority died from lack of encourace- |
nent. The new departure from the Old
order was too marked, and free new spapers,
Ike free speech, were not pleasant to a |
people unaccustomed to them. So we have
eluctantly witnessed a steady ten
lalism. While Northern journals are
early getting out of partisanshin.
lealing with politics only as a single
rovlnce in the sphere of journalism,
nd that in more tolerant tone, and de-
citing greater part of their attention TO
ne development of the material interests
the country, the Southern press, with few
xceptions, finds no province but that of
artisan politics; We regret this, as well
the interest of journalism as in behalf of |
le people of the South. There could be no
reater field for making the press a power
r good than in the South to-day. The
sne OF her people has been and is politics.
er need is material prosperity, and she
Ill never get this through political agita
Dn. just here the Southern press should |
ep IN and lead the people up and out of | 4
'ndage. Since the days of Moses there
's never been grander opportunity for 4
adership. We in the North are half a =
injury in advance of the Southern States B
internal improvements and every mate b
u aspect. In the South there is not a 3
y that has decent system Of sewage. or 3
wing, or proper sanitary regulations; at B
commercial centres warehouses are B
SEQ and wharves rOtting away, and 3
the farms you see the OK and the ass p %
ked together to the plow of primitive B,
Die time. and none of the improvements B;
b modern age in vogue. And vet while 81
press Of the North is impatien.ly D.
moring for rapid transit in our great B.
les, urging park improvements and in b
ased railway facilities demanding means b
the alienation of the condition of the p.
IF. cheap fuel, and cheap food, and aid. b.
IN developing our mineral resources, B.
southern press remains almost silent Be Dc
every topic bearing on the material r,
sperlty OF the Southern States The Be-
trast between North and South ia NOT BE
wn in any spirit of Wanting pride. We 81 81
aware that the latter is oppressed and Be-
diversified. and that many projected Be
'rnal improvements have been aban Br
ed for lack of the money to complete o. o.
N. But there are many ways in which Br
condition of things may be bettered Be-
the means at cOmmand-ways that Bi
gest themselves to every Observing mind =.
which come within the direct province B"
he press. The first and prime requisite 81,
o lnculcate Mr.. Carpenters advice to 81
g politics alone and aetend to business. o.,
thern journalism has here a wide and Bu
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