San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1881-12-15
TALMAGE ON NEWSPAPERS.
rl,Ir Cylinders tho Front wheels Of the Lords
Chariot.


Chariot.
DR.. Talmage, in New York, took two
t.xts last Sunday morning for his ser
mon about the newspapers. One was
sand the wheels we're full of eyes.
He said: "What but the newspape,
printing presses have all their wheels
full of eyes? All other wheels are
blind. The manufacturers wheel some.
times rolls ovefthe operative, fatigued
in every nerve and bone, and sees moth
ing. but the newspaper press has
sharp eyes, keen eyes, eyes that look
up and down, far. sighted, that take in
the next street, and the next hem,s.
phere; eyes of criticism, eyes Of inves-
tigation, eyes that sparkle with health,
eyes glaring with Indignation, eyes
tender and loving, eyes frowning and
suspicious, eyes of hope, blue eyes,
black eyes, green eyes, sore eyes, his
torical eyes, literary eyes, ecclesiastical
eyes, eyes of all Sorts"
:" DR.. Talmage's second text was, "For
all the Athenians and strangers which
we're there spent their time in nothing
else but either to tell or hear some new
thing" DR.. Talmage said: @Thattext
81 4. 8 Z.
gives the cry of the world for a. news
paper. In proportion as men become
wise they become inquisitiye, not about
small things, but about greater things,
The great question thunders, what is
tho news? There is a newspaper in
Pekin, China, that has been published
every week for a thousand years, print
ed on silk. Rome answered the ques-
ton with the A,.ta Dia1raoa. France
answered it when her physicians wrote.
out the news for, patients England
answered it by publishing an account
OF the Spanish Armada, and it's news.
paper press went or increasing until
the battle of SWaterloo, which decided
the destinies Of nations of Europe, was
chronicled in Q description Of q third
of columnl America answered the
question when Benjamin Harris pub
lished the first weekly newspaper, en-
titled Pubic Occs1rrem ces, in Boston,
in 1890. The first American daily news
paper was published in Philadelphia in
1854, entitled The american Daily
Advertiser. I will give you the gen.
ealogical tree of the newspaper. The
Adam was the circular; the circular be-
gat the pamphlet; the pamphlet begat
the quarterly; the quarterly begat the
the monthly begat the semi
the semi-monthly begat the
weekly; the weekly begat the semi
weekly; the semi-weekly begat the
daily. Alas, through what astrug-
gle it came to it's present de-
Velopment! AS soon as, it began to
demonstrate its power, superstition and
granny shackled it. There is nothing
that despotism so mnch fears as the
printing press. It has too many eyes.
Russia, which, considering all the cir
is. the mesnest and most
cruel despotism on earth to-day, keeps
The printing press under severe espoin-
lge. A great writer in the south of
Europe declared that the King of Ma
oles had made it unsafe for him to
write on any subject but natural his.
'ory. Austria could not bear Kossuth's
journalistic pen piled for the redemp-
Ion OF Hungary. Napoleon T., want
ng to keep his iron-heel on the neck
u nation, said newspaper was a
egent of kings, and that the only safe
'lace to keep an editor in was prison.
But the great battles of freedom of
he press were fought in the court
ooms of England and the United
states. One was when Erskine made
lis great speech on behalf of the free
lom to publish Paine's Rights Of Man
n England. These battles were the
1aration and Thermopyle of the fight
'hich determined that the printing ]
ress was not to be given over to hand {
ufis and hobbies of literary and polit- i
'al despotism. Thomas Jefferson said ,
had to choose between q govern
lent without newspapers and newspa- c
ers without Government, 1 would en- G
10y the latter. r
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