Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1879-12-27
WENDELL PHILLIPS ON THE
PRESS.

In the course OF a lecture recently de-
livered by Wendell Phillips, he thus COM
pared the Press of the early part of the
century with the same prodigious popular
power of this period.
The Press seventy years ago was nothing.
The battle Of Waterloo, the grandest event
in Europe for the last hundred years,
only gained one-third of a column for its
record in the London Times. When you
90 back, prior to the battle of Waterloo,
the London Times consisted OF nothing but
advertisements and news 1t never VEN
tured an opinion, engaged in no discus
sion. had no Leading articles, no editorials.
7 remember well that when Harrison. died
in 1S40-an event which, considering its
marty relations, was exceedingly critical
and important in the history Of the country
when the news OF it reached Springfield,
H.. ten DAYS after the President died,
Abraham Lincoln, arguing a case in Court
when the news entered the Courtroom,
denied it on the ground that it was not
possible that it could not have been known
so soon. To-day you buy a paper in the
street, and you read the words that Queen
Victoria is at that moment speaking to her
Parliament, or you can buy an evening pa
per and read what Bismark said before din
ner. Such is the enterprise, the vast sweep
covered, that is making humanity one.
The man that reads the papers has a teie-
oraphic wire that connects him with the
world, and the man that does not might as
well be Robinson Crusoe on the STAND.
The Press Is the exclusive literature OF
the masses. To the millions 1t is htera-
ture, church, and college. -Four men OUT
of five never read a book, or 1t woul Dc
hardly too much to say that, speaking
generally, four out Of five seldom read q
book. The daily Press is to them parent
and school, church and college, counselor
and amusement. Old Fletcher Saltoun OF
Scotland SAYS, with infinite sagacity, Let
me make the ballads, and l care not VINO
makes the law" To-day, if he lived, he
would change his utterance to, Let me
make the newspapers and don't care
what is preached in the pulpit OF what Is
enacted in Congress"
And no doubt the material prosperity
mon which we so pride ourselves, the IN.
Sp;te Inventions, the total subjugation OF
natnre in it's force to the will of man, the
elevation of man above drudgery OF work
which marks our race in this country, Is
almost exclusively due to the intellectual
davelonment which has resulted from the
press. 1t is the trained mind which the
Press produces. 1t is not the information
solely that it communicates, it is the train
inc Of the mind it administers, that results
in the alertness, sagacity, wide-awake, per-
s;stent. and uncomfortable effort to SUD-
;noate nature, and in the course OF two or
three generations it has actually changed
the brain of the race.
Burdette on Having n ''Good Time.
NV son. enjoy yourself. Have a good
time. pleasure is eminently right and
nroner. hut a good time isn't secured by a
headache that lasts all the next day. TIT
s;mnIe Measures are the most lasting. Al
ter Won have spent two years in Europe
Won will come back and sit down by your
own freside and think Of a picnic you wen
10 down at the Cascade one afternoon III
lime. that cost YOU just ~sixty-fve cents
The ssgood time" that you daren't take
Won wife to, my son, that you would lie
sbout rather than have your sister kno"
about them, the goodness OF them meyer
comes back to refresh you and giaoden
vour heart as does the memory OF Una,
sixty-ive cent picnic, when you chateere.
nonsense with the girl you loved ant
laughed lust as the leaves rustied, pecaus'
YOU couldn't help it, The good tlnle
that awakes in the morning ana wohoers
where it was and who saw 1t, n where d,
its money is gone; the good Tune that .all
itself off with a headache, there's precioul
little fun in that. And 1t only taxes a yer,
lille bitterness of hat kind to poison an.
cloud the memories of the past. ltdoesn'
take many such 'good times my boy. t,
n[';nole tears with your bread and gall witt
yonr drink. The sting is the smallest par
IF the bee. but when you pick him up b,
il. though the rest of the bee were as larg
a. an Omnibus horse, yet would the stun
outweigh all the good, sweet harmless
bonev-laden portion of the bee, and yo1
| thini about it oftener and longer.
Wrt1.ocK has deserted the Workingme
a,d ;o;ned a Democratic club in San Fran
- 1-.aa.4Laf KeArnaY has gOn