Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-07-31
TENDENCIES OF THE TIMES.
YOUNG MEN NO LONGER OCCUPY
ING REAR POSITIONS,
But are Coming to the Front in Politics,
In Journalism, In Literature, and
in Every Department of the
worlds Work.


In Journalism, In Literature, and
in Every Department of the
worlds Work.
On October 9Th, 1882, the editor OF
the SENT1xEL, then publishing The
Ne,v South, at Wilmington, n. c., said
editorially:
CouPLE OF YRARS HENCE.
Ere another couple of years has passed, when
the State is redistr;cted, and all begin TO more
fully feel the qualification of being able to send
one more member to Congress, new and re
invigora.ed life will perneate the length and
breadth of the Democratic party of North Car
olina. 1t will be more fully realized as the
peoples party, and will erect a plat form upon
which all who love North Carolina and desire
to see her prosper, may stand and greet each
other, without feal of factional embitternent
and disunion. A platform upon which all
class, may stand, regardless of wealth or color,
religion or social standing, We have reasons
for believing that by then new regime will
have taken control of the party management
and fresh, young blood coursing through its
veins.
We leave it to the reader if our pre-
diction has not been fulfilled and ap-
propriate to the subject, we beg leave
to present variety of current COM
ment which will show conclusively the
tendencies of the times.
NEW CLASS OF POLITICIANS.
An editorial in the August Century
on "The Legacies Of the War con-
meets recent discouraging political
events and social tendencies with
causes growing out of the war, and
adds:
But he would be a shallow observer
indeed who did not see beside the
events and tendencies to which we
have alluded others of most hopeful
and reassuring character. If there
seems to be elimination of evil
things, there is elimination OF the
good also. Nothing can stay the prog
ress of the greatest reform that has
been started since the old Anti slavery
days And the reform of the civil
service means not merely a purifica-
tion of our governmental system; it
means also, ultimately, the reform of
our entire public life. In both Of the
leading parties new class of politi-
clans have already begun to take the
field, and with the highest success !;
men like Mayor Low of BROOKLYN and
Theodore Roosevelt of New York
City-such men as these have already
done much to make the abused word
politician" the respectable designa-
tion of highly useful and worthy
class of citizens. 1t will be noticed
that among the men prominent at this
moment as connected in one party or
the other with the reform principle,
are many who have come up since the
war. They have taken their places
after the great questions growing out
of that conflict were largely decided,
and they are addressing themselves
with energy to the new problems
which are calling everywhere for at
tention.
Among the signs that the great
body of the people are not thoroughly
contaminated by the low and cynical
views of expediency and the mephisto-
phelian principles of the large number
of political strikers" and 'boomers," :"
of all parties and sections, who of late
have been SO noisy and apparently
pervading-among these signs, we say,
Is the interest taken in the agitation
of the temperance question, an agita-
ton it may be not always wisely or
justly conducted, but on the whole a
moral movement of the deepest and
most healthy significance. Another
sign IS the extraordinary courage Of
independence on the part of individ-
uals connected with the various politi-
cal organizations, and the quick and
wide response to every point of con-
science raised by those who are looked
upon as the purest and least disinter-
ested among the leaders of thought.
YOUNG JOURNALISTS.
From the Newspaper Reporter
The tendency of these days is pro-
cocity instead of fogyism, and young
men are more certainly coming to the
front in every avoeatien. There are
now more noted men of an age below
the medium than there were in the
days of the revolution. Perhaps it
has been noticed that the young men
OF almost every place are banding
themselves into political clubs, and
forming formidable barriers in the
way of too much successive political
honor being bestowed upon those who
have been leaders. There are organ
lzations everywhere that are composed
of only the young men, either organ
lzed or tacitly agreed to stand by each
other in everything. They hold the
balance OF power on any question and
as promoters of the welfare of the peo-
pie are invaluable, for young men are
seldom immoral in their choice when
acting in body. It has been observ-
ed, also, that the majority of editors,
reporters and journalists of almost ev-
cry kind are men under forty years of
age; many are below thirty. There
nre some noted man who have been in
harness for lifetime and who have
made name, fortune and success
full newspaper, who are known by all :;
but they are rare in the journalistic
field compared with any other. There
are as many noted poets as there are
noted journalists, and yet it seems as
if the 10000 papers of North America
ought to furnish more famous editors.
The literary tastes of the times are not