The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-12-11

power would be fearful. III II were pos-i- |
ME for 600 p.gspa pers ID entirely agree |
you would see an end TO anything Ike H.
diyidual freedom or opinion. IL under
,,kaz so u,ucb and achieves 30 much that
The fes. is We shall leave everything to II,
.,d therein hes one Of the greatest dangers
that beset our young repGblIc. What We
shonId aim al Is progress somel hing high
or. something better, something nob.er.
Pat the nature of the press j. TO stereotype
noa,tsrs and stop the lines II progress.
samuel Johnson said, Let us empty our
minds of can't" 1t was good thing to do,
and il will be good thing for Us ia study
ing the effect OF the pr-ss to empty our
minds Of can't When The members OF the
rre-. cyme together, | mean the represent
atlye members, you would think from
X hat tbey say Of themselves that all were
gentle. we'll nurIured, highly educated,
having only in view the common veal, in
fact the g.CJud sayIors OF the humun race.
Rpt these meG are only paid agItators.
Whea We speak OF journalism IN It's gen
.r.I ,coue, II IL prcss Of idess and lie
end power, bat spoken OF IN the con
crete IL j. simply dollar subscTib, d
for 20 much commodity. GCU can hear
the cling # the dollar or the sDsp 81 tae
party whip in every editorial they write
am moi describing all journalists IN these
terms. Ihsre are come high minded and
indepsndsat ones among then; but Can We
Iook into one auother's fzccs and not EMIL
Al d suggestion that these inen are anything
el-e III al the retained leaders Of Coe sec
lion oil the political world lmmsn-e IT,
sourc aud ~onderful enterprise belong to
the d ally newspaper. We may take up
the Herald and read the words Cf the
| . ieea Of England to PlT!i Sment hcurs
pcio.e tiey we're delivered We may take
~ an II ernoon paper and read what Bis
mzrCk said Just b. fore his dinner. lie VINO
reads to day ha, q ttlegrsphIc conmunica
lion wIta all pare Of the word d. The man
sho dOi.'t read might as well be Robinson
Crgsoe on his is!atd. Tae press Is the
literature Of the nIasses: To q certain
class Of inen it il literature, church and
college. Fletcher oDce sand " Let NE make
the nes-p 4pers, and dOn't care who IN akes
the Laws" To-day he would hsve said
Let me IN axe the Newspapers, and / Con'I
C are VIVA; IL spoken from the pulpit or
enacted at Washington" Applause We
must give the press credit Tor great and un-
denIable results. America owes to her
! urezs oae half, If not more, Of her gres,
development. But the press is The sgent Of
| the we!I-tO-do classes, and vhen the
capitalist has got sill he wsnts to get and
the POLITICIAN is free from hiS aspirations,
the poor editor IL LETT in q very email field.
Sidney smith said 10 a Frenchmsu
! There are only two things in tue world
worth talking about, relik zion and politics
>. IA.
| ter There are ouly two things in THU
| country worth talking about, finance snC
| politics, and ninety out Of one hun
bred newspapers in the land dare not say
what they think about them. Applause.
| am not msligning the newspapers.
know their power. Tocguevilie oncs
said: mo man knows the power OF The
Newspapers until he has studied the his
| tory Of the age that had not any," Fol
the pro'ec ion of individual liberty tn,
power Of the press is Indispensable; but e
beyond that-ask the press 10 60 forwsrc
TO meet the advancing Idea-, TO go outside
cut Of the weil-to-dD class and sssist the
u asaes, and then comes the crucifi lion. Tn,
average editor gels his living out of hi
-ubscrIoers. lie might as we'll peit then
| with bullets as with new ideas. Laugh
ter lie could not aEOId the luxury
| I Laughter While the press rspFesent
| the we'll TODD leases IL eau never be the
| organ OF social change, the organ Of re
form. The press hes no feeling Tor tn,
Masses 10 the hard days Just past, wheE
society Itself staggered, wien wall o
want went up all over the country, ther
| Beecher Numbered forth from bis pulpit
Bread snd water are good enough for any
man," then the leading psper Of Chicago
| republishei the saying, The best thing 10
do for 4 tramp is 20 shoot him." and added
The best thing to do for tramp il to
give him dinner-snd pul poison la it.
Then the Times Of this city Id to suter
| ing iabo-ers, Come, you must submit tc
the rich" snd the Tribune cried, Capital
is organized st last. let Us zee Congress;
defy il. All tuis happened 1874 year:
after the Saviour said: The poor We have
always with sou. GIVE IL hia THAI askett
| ,Lep, aud from him that would borrow o.
thee, turn not thou aEss" No, the pres
ras 10 i.eiIag IL us heart for the mssses
The prgss il intellectual, but intel
ltet Is not goodness, far from
nj England xaaRita Jsf f55hh..bi Ell q
the mort Intellectual nation now upor
earth, snd once Tocqueville said of III,
| British Parliament, 'lt has only one mem
her, and hs does not ask Is this "a Ii or il /
wrong, bui hpw Will this affect the brItls.
| GUyernrleni?' D!srseli has said in WV
ian Grey" cat the people ere rot Otter
wr5ng, Sud NE may add that the ,.eople,
mean the mlesgs, ere always JI-i. Nber
the anti slavery Cause Wac started We fount
all The pspeTs, all the msg szlnes, Gil th'
! took pubIshIUg houses bought up sDC
tc!Osed against us-eyery gun spiked. Tn,
richest publishers IN line world. who's
books go all over the world, living In you
city Il need Lot mention names, did 10
dare 20 pint word IN anti slavery fol
fear II should % south # Mason and Dix
on's line ami give uGelss. Reform Cal
never look 10 me ITe-s nor TO politics
The LAWYER says: 81 shili loose my prsc
tice :" the merchant says: i shall lose ny
trade :" the preacher says: 81 shall los,
nv gulpit :" The editor says: Il shsll los
my usscT Ders" Inc press is the creates
coward 10 reform. OCJuneii could hot finI
In all Great Bri sin a paper 10 speak 10
him until he did his printing Tor him
-e.f. OIe reason that makes The terrible
cancer ia Irelard to-day is that there hs
not teen an English journal that dare
give vent TO the real cry VI the Irish. L,
return TO the anti-slayerv agitation. Viii
liam Lloyd Garrison never got peice o
type 10 sIe1k for him until he owned l
himself. We could hardly get q line il
the New York journals. The first I,
awake some reBse OF jIstice-and Ii ma,
surprise 6 me of you wien 7 say it-wa
the New York Herald. (Applsuse) Tn
Herald at least gave Us taIr play IN 1t
repo-loriil columns, giving tEscC account
| OF every statement We maGc-thIn eKI Fees
ly reserved its Cd torIai colu mus 10 in men
a. adversely Is il pleased. But Ia Ii
news columns II gave Us honest tire Etinent-
IL gave Ia our words. Applause.
| Horace Greeley was rot the greatest ma,
of New Iors journalism; LIE wa the mos
obdurate. He wrapped himself Up in tn,
phvl 8ctery of his own e-teem.
| The personality Of journalism originated
with him. He SAID, we'll Knowing IN,
pow,r he exercised, III at he cid not u lder
take 10 tell the truth, he simply uLdrrtool
TO tell the news. A doc.Tlue 50 lnso!en
and hard-hesrted has never before bseI
svoSed by decent person.
/ Daring there rem sESs upon Nj Creole
somebody In the gallery caiG,G CG:, de i
dead" Ii attrscud some atIeEIion icon
The audience, but the lecturer did not he
the interruption.
As if any man, said Mr Phillips, shout
lesrn living by printing scurrl!iOus lie
abOnt you, and you must le.ye your busi
ness and go shout in search OF evidence t
disproye Of What he has written. W,
must arrange your Newspaper correspon
derce, put yourself assIGst pCsic riot
ard all to get penny into the palm Of
dishonest kuaye, The Sprir gieid Rspub