Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-18
JOurualisSn.
JOuTn0linSns
TRIBUTE TO IT'S ESrERrRIss rowEE AND usE-
FCINESS
CONDENSED from Rev. Robert Coliyevs late dis

TRIBUTE TO IT'S BNrERrRIss, FowEE AND CsE-
FCINESS
CONDENSED from Rev Robert Collyers late dis.
course
| Do the hidden forces break out In an earth
| quak- man springs up with note book and
| pencu While the land Is rocking under hts feet
ano begins 10 write and 70 flash his words over
! the INST wire he can lay his hands on. Is the
| fre turning up city, There he Is among the
flame scratching at his paper-the coolest man
! you shall fiud.
I "how did you come to write that account OF
/ that fearful morning In cur city," | said 10 A
/ woman who had given wonderful picture OF
log cut with all III. resi- OF You" she sIi.
! when met reporter for that paper wno
/ Anew me. Tie said. You are the very person [
| Was looking for; come right along, YOU must
! write me the story OF This morning for our
! aper. and ii must go over the wires TO-DAY.
They Will pay you more than you ask Write
/ on the st1rye' cried through my tears: ANY.
! my heart is breaktng-and have lost my folks
and, Just look al me with the CRIME, All
the story, leave your face TO care OF itself aud
Z let the folks seek you. Come along And come
Gid across the river 10 house, where n
found table. put paper and pencil down: aud
I SO did Ii. biotting the thing all over with my
tears
The newspaper is glorious and good a. its
! highest and best; meauer d. you reach down.
ward. and when you get clean down to the
/ lJwest line, as mean as dirt. It is the Old dream
: @ er again In this respect also, that these ele-
] ments stand Tor something outside the tina a.
! Self: for the power on the throne and the
poser behind the throne for the actors ana
J tie audience; for those who fashion this marvel
t or our modern time, and those for whom &c f.
| IA hloned. The gold and silver, the brass and
! ia II and mud are all found first In the people
Who make the form and SUI St ance of the news
! paper possible: and then they are IN those who
made the press TO please those they work for
ard from whom they expect due reward.
/ Powerful ana wonderful as this Great on OF our
re" Gay is. IL Is the image or the people who
are looking at IL In hope and fear. or all Mira
! tton or hate. II IS like the Church the drams.
/ (OOgTpSS, the Senate and the
an outcome first and then au income or like
| the water which Iuus clear TO the upper stories
or our houses and great buildings {oniy IL does
not SO run in New Iork)-a proof that we nave
| those among Us who work and plan and nav
Tor clearneS5 and at its worst iti like the stag
nant pools and marshes that turn to slime In
the sun to brea1 peSuence and malaria proof
OF The kinship to evil some people tolerate about
them or create out Of the sluSh and slime OF
| their own nature.
Now that the American preSS-for | speak OF
| thiS eSpeclally-ShOuld distance the world In
enterprise Is as natural as it is that we should
GO hundred things beside that spring from
! Our wide and free life. That iu should be gen
/ orally keen, bright, trenchant quick and hu-
morouS In spots is also natural, because these
are all qualities that lie within our free life
also That the leading articles In our papers
should contriye 20 pack all the sense into nalf
the space CT the leaders in a paper Ike the
! London Times is also natural, because we live
| nasty. fiery and impatient life, different from
! TIE SLOW and sure process OF life IL England. and
! SO editors know very well that IL they saou.I
give US piece OF their mind In their columns
| we should look at the loHg chapter. refuse TO
| read 1t, and SO not only Illustrate tneir labors.
| but stop our subscriptions
Fer we viii no more abide long sermons in
Tie press than We VI i'll in the pulpit. That we
, should have hundreds OF personal anu fnper-
sohal items about everything OF any Interest,
2rd every man and woman who happens 10
/ shhc the public eyes, IS also natural because
there Is 20 such curious and inquiSiClve race on
Tie planet as this or ours. 1t is true. no doubt.
| that II one respect We have amended our wars
! since the days OF Mr.. Dickens.
! stand Tor the perfect freedom Of the press
now and forever and want TO see it frank and
fearless about men and things no matter VINO
. gets hurt. nave no sympathy with tue mere
! sentimental squeamiShnesS which would cover
| .hibgs up tnaJ ought 10 be revealed; and here
tbe newspaper OFTEN does work before when
/ Inc pulpit qualiS ana falls back. coming Up ar
las, If 1t comes up at all. among the reserves
! The press can do, and has done, peerless work
IA graphing with public and personal corrup-
tion within the past years. We need sucn
papers. and we have them.
And now what hope is there that this great
power for good and evil will grow better not
WolSe: that the gold anG silver or 1t Will gradu-
Any Any gan on me brass, the iron ana the mud.
Wen, this, first OF ALL is to me the grandest or A
| Lope-that the best OF our Journals are all the
! lime growing better aud WANING their way into
ltIge areas or power and the nObleSt use. |
count II a sign altogether for good that the vast
majority or our great papers are perfectly free
! ana, as believe, perfectly honest They want
no oftce or plumber and will have none Taey
! stand clear OF all faint and trust them selves
utterly to the honest Instincts OF the elem
| American citizen.
The best OF them see from afar, as men on
! mountain tops the dawn OF new AID better
day. when the patriot Will persuade the meTe
| politician, or rather, when the politician will
be patriot In the purest sense. And SO they
stand as heralds to encourage us to rise ana
take our place and begin win the new oppor-
| tuhlty. Journals like these are the true leaders
OF the people, as Mr. Lincoln was the true
leader when he waited to hear the tramp OF his
| fellow citizens behind him, and then marched
On with their heart and mind and hand 10
maintain him. 1t is also true that as the
people go, the Journals-which do not lead. but
| lolioW-wil1 go. They VIII do Just as they have
done-Wheel swiftly into line 10 save their Cir
| culation.
| . SO IL is no great wonder, as you will see. thai
| Inc newspaper should be about the most potent
| power we know or among visible things or that
laiI minded men should be glad for this power
and proud OF il, wherever IL is held sacred
! 10 truth and virtue in wide and true sense. /
VIII venture TO say also that We OF all men
should oe glad and proud OF this power for
| good, because among newspapers of the first
Iank there are very few indeed that are not
conducted In broad and liberal spirit when
S 6sdn saey eouen tne great questions which
paragraph not very long ago which professed
10 give the bias, or the belongings, OF the most
eminent editors In this country, and it was
something OF wonder to ind what numbers
OF them were what we should call LIBERAL until
remembered how hard it must be to Ind
man OF any other mind who can conduct a
great paper, or conducting one, should not
catch this spirit throu Oh his work.
Ihere Is one more word. You arein the habit
or saying that ministers are only men after all
ana we must say the same OF editors, and make
| large allowance for them. They do not chime
| In With our ideas, but we know they are good
| men and true In their vocation. know OF no
position so full OF difficulty that OF the con-
| ductor OF great journal. His congregation is
| counted by tens OF thousands, and every man
| or them wants the paper run his way, frets and
fumes If 1t Is not so, and writes scoldng letter
| or gives up his paper. This is all wrong and
| perpetual threat to one OF the finest treasures
we possess-t e freedom OF the press. Nowwe
have free speech In the pulpit, and cherish it:
we should love 1t also in the press so 1t be clean
and sturdy speech, and say with good John
James Taylor:."I love the truth, even when IL
goes against myself"
Maud Sc and Katie Middleton.
New York Turf. Field and Farm
Mr. BAR, the trainer OF Maud S. drOoped I'm
upon US Friday last He had been snendinr a