Daily globe., 1883-07-19

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Never in the history of the Editorial AS
s0ciation of Minnesota has there been at
the annual gathering of the provincial So
Ions so large an attendance, and perhaps
IN the history of the capitol assuredly OF
the new one-has there gathered together
SO much of the brain power of the state
rs that assembled yesterday in the senate
chamber. The intellectual countenances,
broad, massive brows, deep, thoughtful
eyes were study, and worthy young,
vigorous, prosperous and enterprising
state like ours. suggestion just here
why were they not photographed by some
entsrprising artist?
1t was about 3 o'clock before the meet
ing was called to order by the president,
Mr.. Herbert, who read his annual report.
He said:
The newspaper of Minnesota needs no
enlogy. 1t speaks its own praise from
240 presses in our fair state. 1t reaches
syery village and hamlet, every city and
Reighborhood, every palace and cottage.
In advance of the development of the
state and keeping a proper leadership
all along has been the newspaper. Through
its persuasive words the people of other
states and other lands have come hither
and from a few hundreds of circulation,
fens and hundreds of thousands have been
reached. He proceeded to give history
of the association showing that the first
,y,oot1-,rp 1yoc boIS in CT Pau1 Fab opJ
81, 1867, when there were only fifty-four
papers in the state, thirty-two of which
were represented at the meeting. Some
sho were present on this first meeting, he
said, have passed to that sanctum where
the copy hook is never empty, the ink
fountain is never dry, where subscribers
are never in arrears and unpaid bills cease
their troubling, and it is hoped politicians
cease their struggling, fighting and worry
ing and their weary champions are at rest.
These stood by their quilts and cases to
She last Some have dropped into other
callings, while the majority are still at
their tables battling against prejudice and
wrong, ignorance and self conceit, pOlit-
ical corruption, private crimes and mis-
demeanors with the little weapon which
Is mightier than the sword, winning the
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3ae crown of the faithful editor" There
is no other profession, he maintained,
which has the charm and enchant-
meAt about it to the one who
has once engaged therein as has that of the
editor. He always looks back to the
power and influence he then welded, with
pride and longing that frequently draws
him back again to the profession regard
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had been as much life-success among edi
tors as any other profession and fewer
failures. In continuing his differences
from records of the first meeting he stated
that community of interests tends to a
community of sentiment, and the one
prominent object of the first convention
vas the devising means for the purpose of
Tepienishing depleted exchequers from an
increased revenue from the public print
ing, especially for an increase in the price
for publishing the delinquent tax lists
Once an item worth looking after. In this
good time twenty cents a description was
tho price; now they had to struggle to get
-four and one-half cents. He next alluded to
tho courtesy always shown by st. Paul to
The association. He said the members of
thB '67 convention enjoyed free enter
sainment at the st. Paul hotels, free
tickets to the grand concert given at the
aSw Opera house. The st. Paul press pre-
sentsd each member with a copy of the
Minnesota statutes, free sleigh ride was
given by livery firms, free tickets for the
GarCus were provided, and grand free
banquet was provided by the st. Paul
local press and Governor Marshall-now
hunting down editors-not to be outdone
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Sewing night. Another characteristic of
Shs first meeting was a committee ap-
pointed to collect the names of the editors
aSa publishers with their personal charac-
EoFistics, which he thought also might be
initiated in these latter days. He con-
tended that the profession was to-day the
most rapidly advancing, possessing the
best talent, having improved presses and
means of gathering news. An immense
revolution, he said, has taken place the
last fifty years and even in twenty-five
carrying the editor to the top
of a temple that overlooks the
world and made every human act,
interest, thought and heart throb going
forth not to a few hundred as was only
possible few years ago, but to hundreds
Of thousands. Scarcely two centuries old
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or sYil as the press. He followed with
BulOgy upon the wide circulation and
influence of the newspaper press and COM
pared the country weekly with the city
daily, stating that the country weekly was
10 the daily as is the brooklet and mean
dering stream to the mighty river, follow
iEg with the assertion that the newspaper
performs its functions in collecting
material of which the history of great
nation is made. After suggesting that
various committees be appointed he con-
Guided as follows:
We need only to be aroused to the grand
sur, dignity and utility of our calling.
The successful editor in either city or
eonntry must be full of zeal andactivity,
syer on the alert, honest, bold, truthful
and sincere, full of self-respect and respect
for his calling.
The newspaper should be the spur to
sVery new or needed enterprise in city
or village, and to this end should be the
most wide awake and enterprising insti-
sutton in the community. The editor,
syer on the watch to forward the right,
should be equally ready to expose the
wrong; scoring mans bad deeds one day