New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-01-20
EDUCATION FOR AMERICANS
KEYNOTE OF LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY.


WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS ARE DOING.
At the largely attended and enjoyable dinner
OF the Typothets given at the Metropolitan Hotel,
Thursday evening. Mr. Beecher witty and entsr-
tanning speech THE TRIBUNE prevented from giving
report OF this, because OF pressure its columns.
The best points OF II therefore herewith reproduced
GESTLEsEN hope may be able 10 command Jour
attention for few moments. know can secure hear
ing from those this end Of the room for have drunk
very little wine lLaughterl
II were 10 speak TO the general toast "Our Country
and should undertake. IN the condensed way
TO compass the subject, should have you all asleep
tons connected with the printng press whether you
gard 1t as the book press or the newspaper press-
THE KEYNOTE OF AMERICAN LIFE.
We have with US in this country at present gem
tlenan, Mr.. Matthew Arnold, who is studying our ns-
tuons and national character and ideas sdu
cation. Yet doubt whether Mr. Arnold win strike
the key Of the whole thing have no universities
ta VIZ compare WITH those OF Germany and oxford and
p, :, 4so W y, Ehsan we sbau nave them ny ana ny
nut i nor the eenns or our people 10 produce them
We are aiming at something else. All Europe begins az
the top OF society and strikes down bottom as II
caldrOn could be made boil by kindng re al The TOD
instead OF at the bottom Of laughter and appause IL
Of beginning al the bottom leaving the too To take care OF
ITSELF for whatever Influence Is developed amongst the
those that stronger and wiser and higher appanse
whatever is right and good FOR the best right and
good for the poorest IN the community IL the
Puritan idea and the idea founders and Il h tho
idea that is regnant in orr institutions 10 av n a. tbat
iaborers Of the old World. Everybody is invited
to come here because II IS the poor mans paradise
A voioe-HOw about Chnai
Mr.. Recherche only exception Is China, but China
will take care OF herself Applause To chrsranize
the Chinese people is rather aborous task, but
about to build generally prefer TO have their timber
send missionaries China to them rather than
to have the Chinese come here and be converted.
La1ghter Nor 90 suppose that the religion OF me
gion Of Confucius Renewed laughter.l
Now, II Mr. Arnold shall take the scope aud
3 OF
as TO the body OF learned he will miss entirely his
aim and Will return with very incorrect conception OF
what is going on here We are undertaking 20 do for
60.000.0O0 what Europe IL undertaking do for 10000
They providing great institutions for the benefit OF
the favored upper classes OF society We undertaking
TODD for the under class the 10000 0O0of
except incidentally. We aiming at popular
intelligence. That IL Of far more imp0rance-Iutel-
genee which the factor which creates knowledge /. OF
great deal more Importance than knowledge 1t H.
Applause We are stimulating the great mass Of our
people 70 Intelligent competency 10 read and under
stand, and TO and determine and That IL the
point OF education OF this great land. In that regard
suppose ought to say PROFESSIONALLY that the hrSt In
huence IL the church and religion, but we appear 10
have quite lost our reckoning and do not know what re-
glon Is nowadays may be excused for waving that
point daughter
THE WORK OF THE NEWSPAPERS.
the editors and the lawyers, they may be consid-
cred simply the tinkers Of great prOte sion
[Laughter.l The newspaper is great force but the
schools hold TO be the great institution for pro-
noting the intelligence u these times
electual part the moral sentiments the social and the
animal passions and you have about the only depart
ments from which the papers may acquire As N IA
necessary 10 the bottom, II il supposed that tho
newspapers the bottom OF this subject Whatever
the animal man does stimulated by imagination, what
there may be Of cheatery lust or any variety Of
crimes be that IL viii be found out by the newspa
,brn in the next department receives ess attention
bur stil no nconsiderabe amount When the
moral elements of there i not much news abroad,
and the collectors empove are not specially qua ed to
l. :
died with excessive labor in that direction aughter
Yet while think the press fairly subject 10 amiabo
and mild form OF criticism on this point allow me 20 say
after circuit OF this continent knowing Of
course, do the papers here and the less wellpned
papers OF Philadelphia and Boston man Who would
print such paper The Phuddephtd L,dgcr ought TO
be arrested as a criminal. Loud laughcr IL Is only
another way Of shaking pins into peoples eyes. man
when look at the fair paper and good print
New York papers, wonder how the people OF Phila-
dephia and Boston ever endure their own papers
Avoice-Are there any papers d more n mora ,o
Buffalo Cleveland. Chicago, ST. Paul, Minneapolis Port
mraiOn the papers Not that they not liable 10
the criticisms that have ntmated in regard so tho
Their you the news there H. In the Chicago
papers every county to come IN for separate editor
II hoop flies of barrel IT Is recorded chicken coop
Is turned II is recorded Laughter think. taking
the Intelligence that throu b them for week,
one half Of il could be compressed into your
band far as the importance wOnld DO
made ILaughtor But think II has 10 it, limit aud
that they vii run In the direction OF news In the
higher departments OF the mind do not know that you
understand the religious development OF the daes OF
NeWIOrk. In my recollection II was considered Jest 10
print religious news in a SewYOrk daily Now they
printing great deal OF religious news provided you call
sermons rclig Ous. Lau litter
But the newspapers OF our continent are gradually
becoming a great deal more able ministers by
which the common people are becoming intel.
Ugent II ia the great work OF the printing.
press in cooperation with the schools that deserves our
consideration and our attention. and this is we'll Why.
In the Olden times England had greenhouses There
they could raise tropical plants, early vegetables and al
that Of things but there not one man IN 10000
that could have a greenhouse summer beats all the
greenhouses ont Of sight They for creating green
houses America Is for creating summer. by which tho
whole OF the common people
will grow a= fruit and grasses grow,
without artificial heat special arrangement for their
sisenance. Mr.. Arnold may complain that our people
have not light and sweetness but gunpowder has not
much OF ghr or about II until you touch on
Laughter.l We are Oh way 10 do much. We shan
have tropical summer by and by IN which the great
mass OF the common people shall rise up 10 knowledge
because OF their birthgh and besides that slal repre-
sent the highest civilization well a. the best knowledge
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