The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-25

means The nar end justifes tn
bava No nroFor. layers Of such paper
e.,Iar - call;na I'D conviction Of thei
coyao J. Why is it that when
f ool 4bo4 becomes impressed with th,
b,e ~ christian minister is governed
- ~ + .ssion for money thew at ONES
go. confidence in him Simply be
~ 5e they expect him to be governed nv
Irer and holier motives. and wbile
! they acknowledge that nfbe laboro, - :
t Mort4y OF his hire, Z they Justly reckon
1ne nonor attached TO MS Office. the
satisfaction OF doing good to Others to
say notnlng OF the reward that awaits
aim hereafter, as part of his recon-
pense, and so they are. Now T Mace
al pubic instructors on the same nIat-
| FORM. all men and women who serve
their country and their God from NAT
riotic and philanthropic motives. There
are men 10 our pulpits, our colleges, and
Id our schools, whose talents command
the highest positions Of pecuniary adj
vantage, but who toll on cheerfuliy, in
the consciousness that they are 'tserv-
ing their generation by the will of God. )"
and that when "they rest from their
labors their works will follow them. !"
And we claim some measure of this
philanthropic spirit as a prerequisite to
journalistic success. When, therefore,
newspaper is run exclusively
in the interest of It's proprie-
tors, when money is the chief end. the
result will be not onlya mercenary, but,
). An impure newspaper. It's col
umns will be sold to the highest bidder.
The law comes in to protect our homes
| against lewd, icentious and grossly i'm
moral literature by making it contra
band and imposing a penalty on those
who offer it for sale. But there is a
large class of literature pernicious in it's
tendency which does not come within the
provisions of the act, and which is cor
rupting the youth of the land. Still. we
can control this class of literature: that
is to say, we can exclude it from our
homes and caution our children againstit.
But it the newspaper give in detail all
the facts connected with the divorce
court, and the police court, and the
criminal court; if it give in detail all the
cases OF seduction and crime, which it
must necessarily record, then the rem
edy IS not SO easy, for our children natu-
rallyinquire why they should not read the
paper when their parents readit. I admit
that there is some force in the argument
that an unreserved publication of all
such cases may serve to deter others
from the commission of these crimes;
but there are two sides to this question
also, and submit whether the sup
posed advantage is not more than coun-
terbalanced by the thoughts suggested
by the reading of these accounts. and
whether SIMPLE statement of the crime
and its penalty might not suffice? It is
a well-knoWn fact, attested by many
painful examples, that thoughts of MUIR
der, and revenge, and inquiry may be
awakened In the youthful mind by read |
ing accounts of these things, and, even
in pure and fully-developed minds, Incl
dents connected with such perusal will,
ever and anon, come up like dismal
ghosts to pollute the heart, and extort
the confession, ST wish I had never
read that narrative; wish I had never
heard of it." An editor or reporter,
like preacher, should use the common
language of the people, and call things
by their right names, but all this is COM
patible with the use of the purest Saxon
and careful avoidance of a word or
phrase calculated to beget an impure
thought
4. Then, again, there is the infdel
newspaper. Perhaps there are very few
papers on this continent that are open
and avowed advocates of infdelity, and
it is difficult to say just how far news
paper read by all creeds and classes
should goln opening its columns to every
variety of religious or irreigious opinion.
1t is easy for those of us, who belong to
the I" straitest sect of orthodoxy, to
find fault, and denounce the press as in
fdel because it affords the same liberty
to those who differ from us that it ac-
cords to us. But this is g zeal without
knowledge" Truth has nothing to con-
ceal, and nothing to fear from the most
learned and acute criticism. It asks q
fair field and no favors. I am always
glad, therefore, when new depart
ures and new interpretations of script
ure are ventilated in the public press
so long as the same space is afforded us
to reply, and ''give a reason for the
hope that is in us" But [ cannot shut
my eyes to the fact that portion of the
secular press seems to be in sympathy
with in6delity, as opposed, not to sec
tar1anism, but to Christianity itself. IF
these papers are persuaded that Chris
tianity is fraud, and that the Pilgrim
Fathers who came to this country for
freedom to worship God were well-mean-
ing but mistaken men, and that prayer
is out of place in the national legislature,
let them say SO, and weshall know where
to find them. But in the meantime it is
not fair in them to go out Of their way
for selections and extracts hostile to
Christianity, while nine-tenths of their
readers and patrons recognize Chris
tianity as a divine religion, and as the
:" chief corner stone " of national great
ness, stability, and prosperity.
Southern Murders.
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