The National tribune., 1882-11-09
THE MAGAZINES.

The North american Rerew for November
Hon. John Welsh, i'll an article of great clear
ness and strength answers Lord Derby's Free
Trade speech, delivered at the recent annual
meeting of the Golden Club in London The
reasons that impel England, with more than
one-fourth of the area of the United Kingdom
i'll possession Of four hundred and twenty-one
persons in population Of 36000,000, are given
with such force, and so clearly cOntrasted with
the condition of America, as to call halt to
the wild rcasonngs Of Free Traders in this
country, who attribute the commercial pros
perty of Great Britain to its Free Trade policy
DR.. William A. Hammond contributes an in
teresting paper on emotional insanity, under
the title a Problem for Socialogists."
Mrs Julia Ward Howe takes up the cudgels
for the Womans Rights party, OF which she is
at once the most shining light and the most
able champion, i'll an article headed The In
dustrial Value of Women" Mr. Charles Elliott
having had the temerty to throw down the
gauntlet to the Sisterhood, in an article on
"Woman's Work and Womans Wages" which
appeared III the August number Of the North
American RcCiew III which he declares among
other hercsies, that child bearing and house
work should be the absolute objects of girls
education" Mrs. Howe comes back at him in a
reply fourteen pages long when she stops only
to take breath, leaving her antagonist meta
phorcally with not leg to stand on.
Rev. George T. Riders criticism upon the
newspapers and magazines of the period, en-
titled 1.-THE Professions of Journalism"
affords much food for reflection to mem
bers Of the press all over the country.
The great daiies of the country" he says,
care often reduced to the business of as many
organs turning out their prescribed ditties
according to the pleasure Of the master grind
crs How many of them shaInelessly, even
ostentatiously, wear the sinister livery Of servi-
tudc to this or that money king. = The
lawful thrall and property of ring clique
corner or 'monopolist.'
This accords so perfectly with what The
NATIONAL TRIBUNE has frequently had occas-
ion to say with reference to the action of the
New York dailies in opposing the Government
in its determination to discharge its obligations
to the soldiers, that it is impossible to avoid the
conclusion, that this, too, is one of the ditties
prescribed by their bond-hoIding masters
Ia the language of the writer of "The Pre-
tensions of Journalism what can journalism,
manaclcd and branded as private property or
in bondage to its advertisers say bravely, or
worthily, or trustfully about anything, SO long
as its fetters chat eand constrain. A voice
that has its price on "'change" can no longer
be depended on as guide and monitor for the
people,
The magazine contains besides the articles
referred to Disorders in Court ROOMS" by
Judge Nelson, of Brooklyn; advantages of
the Jury System" by Judge Dwight Foster;
Safety in Theatres" by Steele Mackaye, and
three articles devoted to the Society for the
Suppression of Vice. by Anthony ComstOcE, o.
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