The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-08-19
The Wisconsin, Editors.

The editorial fraternity Of this state
were right royalty entertained by the
good people of Fargo in their journey
through the land of the Dakotas. 7.
DOMAIN, of the Fargo Argus de-
livered the address Of welcome, and we
wish we had space to spare for the
speech entire. but as we have not, we
will be content with only a few ex-
tracts. On being introduced he said :
Mr.. President and gentleman of the
Wisconsin Press association: The kind
consideration Of my fellow-citizens of
Fargo has devolved upon me the pleas
ant duty Of laying at your honored
feet the keys Of our young city, ofwel-
coming you to our New Northwestern
Wonderland, and swinging wide the
doors of our Dakota hearts and homes
to bid you enter. A writing man Is
seldom a talking one, and an editor is
naturally, Of all men, most modest
and retiring. | should therefore as
suredly have shrunk from the task OF
attempting to speak in the presence Of
an assemblage so august and distin-
guished embracing so many gentle
men iIlustrious in law and politics, lit
erature, statescraft and oratory-so
many infinitely more capable Of IN
structing and entertaining, had it been
anything but an editor-Welcoming OF
WOMAN eulogizing | was expected to
do, had | been assigned any theme but
WOMAN OR THE PRESS.
For these, or either of them, I ex-
pect, God helping me, 50 long rs life
lasts, to WELD tongue, pen or sword,
whenever occasion demands it. In
such a cause, the miracle Of Balaam' 5
pony might be repeated without our
special wonder, and the dumbest don
key break into speech. In such a
cause, an oyster might well find voice,
and a man Of putty Jingle with some
sparks of chivalric and ortoric fire.
Women, God bless her, is generally
able to speak for herself, so to The
Press,
THE nurse Of arts and freedoms fence"
| turn, only regretting that the rush
Of practical service in It's ranks has
left me but few hurried moments in
which to prepare for the assertion of
its claims before this high court Of
semi-festive adjudication, embracing
so many Of its noblest exemplars and
brightest ornaments.
The pulpit, the school and the press.
The three grand moral powers Of the
age. The levers with which the dom
Unions of error shall sooner or later, be
utterly and forever overturned. The
intellectual and spiritual nitroglyce-
rine cans, with which the ponderous
fortresses of wrong shall be blown to
flinders, and their very foundations
scattered to the forty-seven cross-eyed
winds Of heaven. The combined guide
posts and lanterns, by which all earth's
cropping wanderers in the dark, forbid
den paths Of ignorance and folly, shall
be led into the broad highway of
knowledge, truth and right. The
charts, compasseS and beacon-lights,
by which the weary and benighted
voyagers on times storm-tossed,
wreck-strewn ocean, shall be brought
safe at last into a haven of unending
sunshine, peace, security and felicity.
The illur 'nators and regenerators of
mankind But
THE GREATEST OF THESE THREE,
the headlight on the locomotive Of
progression, Is the ink-slinging, pencil
showing, type-sticking and paper
squeezing profession.
The church, the school-house and
the printing-oftice. The three exhaust
less, ever-streamng fountains, whence
must flow the enlightment, the refine
ment, the elevation, publications and
ennoblement Of the world. The holt
est of the these is the well-spring of
Zion; but the mightiest far, whose re-
sistless, rushing torrent oyer-spreads
every valley, plain and mountaIn-top
beneath the moon; whose food is
without length, breadth or comprehen-
sion; q shoreless sea, whose depths 30
mortal plummet ever sounded; is the
grimy font" Of the power-press, the
dingy, Observation-Disclosures
and-gloomed headquarters Of the
printers devil.
The preacher, the teacher and the
editor. The omnipotent trinity Of ter
restrial educators. But Intimately most
potent Of the iilustrious three-ness, Is
the knight Of the ink-horn, paste-pot,
quill and scissors.
.--MightieSt Of the mighty means
on which tile arm of progress leans.
Mans nOblCst mission 10 advance.
His woes aSSuage, his veal enhance.
Ills rights enforce, his wrongs redress
Mightiest of mighty is the press.
The editor Is the soul of the sublun-
WI.