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

weekly Tue weekly hegat the
semi.wcekly ly ; the semi weekly be
gat the daily. Alas: through what
4 struggle it came to It's present
Development! As 5000 as it be-
gan 10 demonstrate its power.
superstition and tyranny shack
led it. Thcre is nothing that des-
potl5m so much fears as the print.
ing press. It has too many eyes.
Russia, which, considering ali 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 En-
rope declared that the King Of
Naples had made it unsafe for
| him to write on any subject but
natural history. Austria could
not hear Aossuth's journalistic
pen piled for the redemption Ct
| Hungary. Napoleon l., wanting
to keep his jrou 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.
But the great battles Of free,
dom OF the press were fought in
the court looms Of England and
the United States. One was when
Erskiue made his great speech on
behalf OF the freedom 10 publish
Paine's Rights 0: Man in England.
These battles were the Marathon
and Thermopylae OF the tight
which determined that the printing
press was not to be given over to
handouts and boobies OF literary
and political despotism. Thomas
jefferson said IF | had TO choose
between a Government without
newspapers and newspapers with.
out Government, | would employ
the 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 as say lEg
Just the opposite OF what we did
say, and we talk OF the bIunderlng
press. We take Up newspaper
with a social scandal or a case
of divorce, and we talk Of the I'll.
thy and sourrilous press. 3 ut
this morning l address you on
q subject you nave never heard
presented-the immeasurable, eV-
erlastlng blessing Of a good news
paper. Thank God that their
wheels are full OF eyes. | give
YOU this overw helrning statls-
tic: that in the year 1870 the
number OF copies Of literary and
political newspapers published
in this country was 100000
600! What church, what retor-
mer what Christian man, can dis
regard these things? | tell you,
my friends that a good uewspa-
per is the grandest blessing that
God has given to the people OF
this cen;ury--tbe grandest tenn
peral blessing. The theory is
abroad that anybody can make
newspaper with the aid Of |; capl-
taIist. The fact is that fortunes
are swallowed up every year IN
the vain effort to establish news
papers. The large papers swallow
up the smail ones. The big whale
eats about fifty mlnnows. we
have 1000 dailles and weekile4 IN
the United States and Canadas'
and only thirty-six are half a cen
tury old. The average life ofa news
paper is five years. Most OF them
die of cholera infantum. Laugh
teri 1t is high time that 1t was
understood that the most success
ful way to sink a fortune aud keep
j. sunk is TO start newspaper.
\ man with an idea starts
the Universal Ga=6tte or the N1I-
janaium AdU0cute. Finally the
money is ali spent and the sub
scrlbers wonder why their papers
do not como. ILaugbcer.] Let
me tell you that if 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 Natterhorn. If you
can't sail a sloop, doo't try to
navigate the Great Eastern. 10
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