The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-01-24

An article in the GeRtleman's Mnaa,i,e y,
"The 8. d. Of Literature" gives some utter
| auces in favor OF the French and American
press over the English:
"The American and French press ia a mar
sonsi press pr English press is imper
ism 10 o profession and is followed "a a me-.
fession BY men who put themselves in tra;ning
for their work, a. others put tbemsai xss Is
uasism ior law; Physio or arms. Here jour
nandfoi Of men, and large proportion of the :.
Mors OF Newspaper is done by men who are
tSSS s;r s to anything but newspaper work for
aiHerence in the world to the press and 't to
1eurnaiism ~ profession. In France and
s Ame ;a the press is an Independents power,
einisy apd Do. ns eas; are the squalls
legislative assemblies-oftsn their suneriors.
. man like M. Lemoinne at the head of the
stan Of the Journal des Debate, often posssssins
most ,oss p s1ou Personal power-than ths
most eioqaent member of the Assembly
Journalist in England is q sbaaow-a man
without q name-without = position in the
w wGIha standing Outside every profession,
that he can take the sligbtest bride in-a an.
pernumerary even in politics. The nress in
france 10, next to the bar, the high-road to
a s%e ana fortunes to ministerial portfolios to
enoassles, to prefectureS to seats in the San.
ATE, TO seats in the cabiaet. Here the press ia
the adjunct Of every profession, and the avenue
20 noGnlDg except vice. gu lship: and ALI
Shat particularly successful man upon the
Epgusn press can iookFor is, the duIl rsversion
OF the editorship of TIP London Gazette or one
hundred pounds yAr from the Civil List.
5erhaps at the Newspatsr-Pr Press Fund dinner .
luxe or an earl may talt over glass Of claret
SPOUT tpo power ana influence of tho press |
and congratulate Ms upA it's purity. indenend, !
eooe, ability, and all tAt sort of thing: and |
Wnen tne eoitor OF the dnes 10 hand.in-glove !
witn tne MINISTER'S OF thfcrown, is to be found |
all through the session a priy;Ieped seat in
the House of Commons, Is to be met in The
highest society of Londoh and branding on a
tS nnnore6 guinea cob Rotten Row when
graph, of the advertiser, al the Echo are tn he
found at the Reform Glib. it cannot be said
taat Inc press now ls wig it was few years |
sago, Wnen the editor OF Z Times did not be-
long to a. single club in bndon whep Lord
Lansdowne refused to pr&ose Tom Barnes Mt
the Atheneum; when 1ugIas Jerrold was !
na1dIy thonghS admissibl4t the Reform Club;
%ueu oistinguisned LFral statesman was
otacS oaneo AT orooss baause he was sup
posed to be one of those kwspaper feIlowsy
ana when moore, with h1fmes on his knee,
sag chatting In the long gaery of the Holland
House, with one of the lost distippuished |
members of the Wing paw, over the Great
misfortune of the total sSerance that has .
taken place between thossEho conduct tho
press ana the better ranksf society, as we'll !
as thelr separation even finn literature, IN
stead OF forming as In Fran, distinguished
branch of it, At that time $any Fonbiauune
was the only EDglish 1ouhlist in society
House and Kensington Got were profnsaIy ,
sprinkled with iterati witEpoets. noyelists | s
historians, critics, you might've searched ali
through the gltterlng hostsFth o lantern to o
find journalist n