The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-18
JOURNALISM.


published, some few extracts from 1t, taken
hero and there from the body of his lecture
and like everything else We have seen from
his pen, what we resd was exceedingly good,
and therefore we reason that the lecture as .
whole was worthy of the man, worthy OF the
subject, worthy of this day of enlightenment
and intelligence. We have read
Mr.. Warnor's contributions 70 tho
current literature of tho day, both
in the ephemers form OF editorials
for the daily press and his moro lsbored sr-
tcca for the magazines and in book iorms;
(he snd Mark Twein together wrote Gilded
Ace, and We admire him ms wrilor--loyo to
road aftsr him. journalism 10 IS much o
profession, study and y calling rs is the
law, medicine, or theology. A young man
prep airing himself for the contest in liio'f
battle selects the law Gs calling. He goes
INTO the Office OF some prominent lawyer
where he lives and there for one or two years
he pours over what Ia called the text books,
Blackstone's Commentaries; Gritty or Par
sons on Contracts; Kenps Commentaries;
Story on the Constitution, ETC., etc. And
then, If he has tho means, no goes of for a
year or two years TO law SCHOOL, Lebanon
Tenn, or Harvard, Mass, or the university
Of Virginia, and returns homo full
fedgsd lawyer in so far as what the text books
cont,in and the schools can give him OF
legal lore--.hat 10 to say on the surface.
O,lonel Sam Mosely, now dead, but in his
life time one OF the most successful and fore
mort lawyers Of Eaat Texas, used to say that
Whenever young man wss an applicant Tor
alicenso 10 the district court TO practice law:
HGiye IL TO him. 1.-The Ia not lawyer his
clients will find II out directly" So 1t is
with tho medical profession. A young man
wants TO be doctor He goes with the en-
dorsement of his father TO the family physi-
clan, q practicing member of the profession,
and he reads in his office
Dunsllson's Practice Of Medicine and
several other of the medical standard text
books, and perhaps, in the meantime. he
helps steal q corpse from the po!ter's field,
which he and hi, preceptor, with !remblings
and nervourness on his part, dissect, and he
gets something like practical idea and
knowledge of the bones, muscles, nerves,
glands, organs, etc., etc., and then no goes
to medical college, where for two or three
years no attends the lectures, works of
nights in the dssectiug room, Wake the hos
pitfalls, perhaps, and returns home with suf-
ticisDt knowledge Of his chosen profession 10
feel pulse, look lesrnedly at tongue and
write prescription. The young lawyer and
the young doctor, whose preliminary educa.
ton we havo thus briefly outlined, both
usefnl citizens in their spheres, have just
entered upon their careers. They have but
crossed the threshold of the temples, the law
aud the medicine,in which they propose 10 DO
priests and at whose affairs they seek to ad-
minifter. They are both noble professions
and we honor the man who strives 10 fill
either the ono or tho other position, and no is
worthy of oil honor and respect. And this Is
true as we'll Of tho journalist. His mission Is
one of labor, of responsibility, and upon his
shoulders rests an undertaking, a duty to hi
follow men that must make any man with
conscientiousness assume his duties with
awe, with fear and with doubts. The arti-
cles which the editor of daily paper in.
dites and which 20 forth to DO read in the
households Of the land, by the Preside in the
family circle, by tho work bench of
the artisan, 10 tho counting room, in the ban>
ker's place Of business, on the streets, may
be ephemeral in their nature, but, like the
waves that beat upon the sea shore, they
leave their impress. They may DO for good
or for evil, but whichever II may be,they SO.
complish their purpose. Poets may DO born,
not made, and in some measure this Is true
Of journslists. We do not mean 10 say that
young man may not study for this pro,
feision and utterly fail, but wo do say that
every man who essays cannot become
thorough journalist. Its profession. It
must DO studied, and the art or science
whichever you will, acquired, IA Is medicine
or law or theology. Speaking of the re-
sponsibiliiy Of the journalist, bis
words GRO road by tho pure and the
impure; the lam tho ualearued;
the rich and tho poor, and what
no says has It's weight. Therefore no must
DO informed, no must DO honest, hs must bo
truthful, no must DO careful. Science, art,
literature, morals, education - everything
finds ito place in tho daily paper, and the
journalist must know all these things, mus.
be able 10 give advice, directions, counsel and
information on these several points; and the
politics this country .aud of Europe no
must have az his fingers ends. But above al,
the journalist, II he DO q true journalist. must
be, M wo said, honest and conscientious. His
power 10 we'll nigh supreme, and should no
deseorase by untruth, by misrepresentation,
by falsehood, worse than perjury No man
can take up tho profession any moro than he
can take up law, medicine or prsschirg.
Almost any Intelligent and educated man
can write an article on given sub
jet suitable for tho columns Of any
novapaper In tho land ,,orha..