The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24
Editorial Convention.

The Nineteenth annual session OF the WIS
cousin Editors ard Publishers Association
convened Tuesday morning at tue Opera
House, Milwaukee. President W. G. Roberts
in the chair. The convention was opened
with prayer by Rev j. B. Reynolds of Mil
warkee. The Secretary, JamesRoss, read the
names of the officers and invited them to
take seats beside the President.
PRES. ROBERTS ADDRESS.
w. G. Roberts, the President, then deliv-
cred the following address
Nineteen years some of them beautiful ;
some of them gloomy ;all of them hurdenei
with events of great moment to the State and
the nation, have passed since the formation
of this association To-day we stand upon
this summit of time, and looking back over
the path way which has led to the present
hour, see not the history ofthis organization
merely-although its infancy, it's boybood
and the flush and yigor of its young man.
hood rise to view-bu far more than this.
We recognize the fact that its existence has
been co-extensive with the magnificent
growth and grand development of this great
State, and that within this period the nation
itself has sustained the earthquake shock of
revolution, and lived through one of the
most important epochs of It's history. Nine
teen years ago the vast possibilities CT Wis
consin in her varied sources Of wealth
agricultural. mineral and timbered-were at
best but partially understood. Within these
wonderful degree. Many a broad prairie
which knew no better harvest than the
wild flower and native grass, has since yield
cd to the persuasive Influence of the pillow
and the cultvator, and sent ite golden fruit
age of grain to the granaries of the world );
mines, the wealth Of which were but family
guessed at, have unbosOmed their treasures
and sent them forth to bless mankind while
cur noble for ests, which the ages have been
rearing, and whose tree-tops have for centu-
rifs brushed the storm driven clouds, swayed
wildly in the tornado's blast, or with aro-
matte breath whisI cred TO the wood -nymphs
within their shade, have proved a vast source
of II ealth, and made the name Of Wisconsin
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too, manufactuf ing enterprises have sprung
into gigantic Importance, and the waters of
nearly every stream Of consequence in the
State, together with the reslstless energy of
steam, have teen invoked in aid of the work
of changing the raw material SO abundant
here, into articles which the comfort and
the taste Of the age demands, and added
millions upon millions to our wealth.
From nothing. almost, this Association has seen
theI1nternal improvements OF the state develop to
to their present gratifying proportions. Nineteen
years ago the fiery tongue of electricity made
only here and there an utterance in Wisconsin.
Now it speaks its cabalistic language in every
butfew miles of railroad, equipped in an indifer-
entmanner; now iron bands span the State in all
directions and the average citizen rides In palace
cars ard rests his stoga boots with sublime in
difference upon fine plush cushions, and the
shrin shrek of the locomotive, as it rushes
through the forest, has ceased to be terror even
TO the wild deer. Tempest-driven ships now find
shelter in harbors made safe by the skill of the
engineer where only few years since the pre-
jecting headland offered the only retreat. SO
within this time benevolent, charitable and edu-
catIonal Institutions have been reared-monu-
ments of the humanity and intelligence OF The
people,
we have right TO do. For without egotism it
may be said that tie members of this Association
have been sskerOoS In the Strlfe 4 OIL ADVANCEMENT,
giving their voice. their time, their energy to aid
in the accomplishment of the ends which con-
tribated 10 this progress and greatness IN larger
measure than any single class Of citizens.
Not railroad project but has called TO it's as
sistance the influence which flows from the pen
point: not highway for the fiery feet Of light
ming to run to and fro upon, with its messages of
Joy and borrow its tidtngs of success or disaster,
but has received announcement from the same
source: not spire points heavcnward, nor an
educational institution opens It's doors, about
which the men who comprise this body have not
been called upon to speak encoHraglngly. And
it is perfectly safe to assume that many measure
of lasting benefit to the community would have
come to fruition with leaden feet without the
benefcent influence welded by the meH of the
press. "a
ness We want for little while TO forget theI
things that are behind-the stuffy old party who
with flushed face rushes into the office and thr eat
ems to break up ones business by disseminating
his subscription, because, fCrsooth, something
has been said distasteful to him to forget the
generous souls who magnanmously bestow al
ten-cent admission card to IN ice cream festival
for which twenty dollars worth of advertising has
been done; to forget the fellow who INSISTS after
having stolen the use of your paper from neigh
bor thatit isn't worth continental; to forget
the drudgery and unrequited labor of everyday
life rnd epjey to its fu lert extent this annual
gathering If this coming -tOgether shall serve
to cement old friendships, TO make new ones, to
wear away prejudice and recuperate in some
degree threadbare energies. none will be found to
ask o { what use are these editorial conventions
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