The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1880-09-10

else such power - In America Amen-
cans live, work and think through
newspapers Acting zs ; pubic eOB-
sciences, il places us seal II shame o.
haa0T upon each ehapLsE Of our history
- it t~TansDiIes. Ne American fOIgsts
H. IL watches u reward the good sad
punish the Lad. Good men trust il 4nd
bad men fear il. Tue power of the
newspaper is not mere force Of printed
thought; IL Is the embodied power Of
the public life Of the day. Each reader
feels Is II he were surrounded by an
unseen multitude who are reading the
same lines, and he grows excited with
the imagined responses.
All the forces Of the current
history prove themselves through
the press; force never remains
idle. II Is impossible that 50 gigantic
a force rs tins American newspaper
should exist without exeTting corr 5
bonding influence upon the characters.
Affairs and destinies Of the entire peO-
pie. An things educate Us, the coun-
try, climate. scenery and society;
business and pleasure environ
ments exert a power on our minds and
characters. While few have deeply
considered the depth and extent Of
the influence Of the newspaper. few will
deny IT. A free press Is necessary for
the completement Of free schools.
Without schools the press would lack
readers, without the press scholarship
would fail 10 have its uses. The news
paper Is a public agent. 1t offers 10
people for pay certain services and ON
this work, rs advertising agent and
public herald, IL depends for its sup
port, but 10 reckon 1t only rs u public
enterprise would insult public inteli-
gence IS much rs II would trife with
public interests and rights. In its
public character the paper enters into
the ranks Of the worlds teachers.
Education has two chief factors: Gull
ture, Or discipline, and knowledge.
The n comes by ft exercise or train
Ing, the other by whatever furnishes in
formation, by reflection and most OF all,
by reading. With all our schools we
could never be intelligent people with
out the newspapers-the encyclopedia
Of the millions scholars and professional
men must read books, but woe, woe, To
them IL they read not the newspapers.
Even the fragmentary and ephemeral
character OF Its articles lend additional
charms, II not additional utility. to II.
The freshness and variety OF the articles
lure the reader on. II talks to men Of
their business, their political party their
church. themselves. The men IL de-
scribes are their contemporaries, their
n~eighbors. It thus adds something OF
dignity to their daily lives.
The newspaper OF o-day chronicles the
movements Of thought as well rs
OF men and nations. All find place
In these perpetual schools aud text
books Of popular learning. Facts will
sustain this estimate OF the educating
power Of the newspaper. Other things
being equal, the man or family who
take and read 4 good newspaper will
be more intelligent than the n~eighbors
who do not. Sift from the American
people the foreign importation Of the
~non-reading masses. and the remainder
will be found the best read and most in
telligent population Of the globe. The
newspaper is not advocated rs n substi-
tute for schools, but rs n complement
TO them. The American press, directed
by men Of educational minds, will find
their way into the school rooms. The
SCHOLARS will be taught their use and
furnish them more interested and in
telligent readers. Let the gigantic
force Of the newspaper be turned upon
the work Of popular education. Let
the schools introduce this new text
book and we have ut work an agency