The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-11-24

semi.we weeAly ; the semi-weekiy be
gat the daily. Alas: through what
4 struggle it came TO its present
development! As soon as it be.
gan 10 demonstrate its power.
superstition and tyranny shack
led it. There is nothing that des-
lotlSm SO much fears as the print.
ing press. It has too many eyes.
Russia, which, considering all the
circumstances, is the meanest
and most cruel despotism on
earth to-day: keeps the printing
press under severe espionage. A
great writer in the South Of Eu.
rope declared that The King of
Naples bad made it unsafe for
him to write on any subject but
natural history. Austria could
not bear kossuth's journalistic
pen piled for the redemption Of
! Hungary. Napoleon l., wanting
to keep his iron heel on the neck
OF nations, said that newspaper
was a regent of kings, and that
the only safe place TO keep an
editor in was prison.
'Bat the great battles Of free,
dom of the press were fought in
the court looms of England and
the United States. One was when
Erskine made bis great speech on
behalf OF the freedom 10 publish
Paine's Rights o: Man in England.
These battles were the Marathon
and Thermopyiae Of the tight
which determined that the printing
press was not to be given over to
handouts and hobbies OF literary
and political despotism. Thomas
Jefferson said: IF | had to choose
between a Government without
newspapers and newspapers with
out Government, | would employ
:he latter
'Stung by some fabrication in
print, we talk of the unbri died
press. Our new book is ground
up by unjust criticism, and we
talk Of the unfair press. Through
some indistinctness Of our utter
aace we arc reported us say lEg
just the opposite Of what We did
say, and we taik Of the blunderlng
press. We take up newspaper
With social scandal or Il case
of divorce, aud we talk Of the I'll.
thy and scurrilous press. But
this morning | address you on
d subject you have never heard
presented-the immeasurable, ev-
erIastlng blessing Of q good news.
paper. Thank God that their
wheels are full! of eyes. | give
you this overw helming statis-
tic: that 10 the year 1870 the
number OF copies Of literary and
political newspapers published
in this country was 1900, ,OOO,-
| 600! What church, what refor-
mer what Christian man, can dis
regard these things? | tell you,
my friends that good uewspa-
per is the grandest blessing that
God has given to the people OF
this century--tbe grandest tenn
peral blessing. The theory is
abroad that anybody can make a
newspaper with the aid Of q capt.
taiist. The TACT is that fortunes
are swallowed up every year IN
the vain effort to establish news
papers. The large papers swallow
up the suaii ones. The big whale
eats about fifty minnows. We
! have 1000 dailies and weekIics IN
the United States and Canadas'
and only thirty-six are half cen
tury old. The average life ota news
paper is five years. Most Of them
die Of cholera infantum. Laugh
teri 1t is high time that it was
understood that the most success
ful way to sink fortune and keep
it sunk is TO start a newspaper
\ man with an idea starts
the Universal Gazette or the -Nll-
lsnnium Ad0ocate. Finally the
money is all spent, and the SUBJ
scrlbers wonder why their papers
do not come. lLaughcer.] Let
me tell you tina; # you have an
idea, either moral, social, political,
Or religious, you had better charge
On the world through the columns
already established. If you can't
climb your own back yard fence,
don't try the Matterhorn. If you
can't sail a sloop, don't try to
navigate the Great Eastern. To
pub!ish a newspaper req quires the