The Red Cloud chief., 1885-09-25
REMINISCENT.
Bill Nye's Recent Address to the
Wisconsin Press Association.

am urc that when YOU SO kindly in
yitcd me to address yOu to-day. YOU did
not anticipate a lavish disp'ay of genus
and gestures. accepted the invitation
because it afforded me an opportunity
TO meet you and to get acquainted with
you. and tell you personally that for
wears have been 4 constant reader OF
your valuable paper and like if. You
are running il just "a [ Ike 10 see u
newspaper run.
need not elaborate upon the won
dcrful growth Of the press in Il coun-
try. or refer to the great power which
journalism yields i'm the development
of the new world. | need not ladle out
statistics to show yOu how the ncwspa-
pr has c~ncroached upon the field of
oratOry and how the pale and silent
man, while others sleep. complies the
universal history of n day and tells his
mighty audience what he thinks about
it before he goes 10 bed.
OF course. this is but the opinion of
ne man. but who has 3 better oppOr-
.t~nity To Judge than he who sits with
his finger on the electric pulse of the
world. Judging the actions of humanity
at so much per judge. invariably in ad-
Vnncce
need not tell YOU all this. for You
certainly know it if You read your pa
pr, and | hope You do. A man ought
to read his W paper. even if he can
not indorsc all its sentiments.
so necessary has the profession of
Journalism become to the progress and
education of our country that the mat
ter of establishing schools where young
men may be fitted Tor an active news.
paper life. has attracted nue.. Alteration
and discus SiOI. IL has been demon
: rated that our colleges do not fit a
Young maj 10 walk ut once into the
active management of Il paper. IL.
should n least know the difference be.
tween a vile contemporary and 4 Gothic
scoop.
Ii is difficult to map out 4 proper
course Tor the student i'm Il school of
Journalism, Their. ar SO many things
connected with the profession which the
editor and hs staff should knox. and
know hard. The newspaper of today
is a library. 1t is an encyclopedias. a
poem. a biography. a history. a proph-
tcy, a directory, u time table, 4 ro-
nance. n cooN book. 4 guide. u horO-
scope. an art critic. . political resume.
a mnltnn M farro. II is a sermon. a
song. a circus. an obituary. 3 picnic. a
shipwrecE. Il symphony in solid BREWER.
Il medley OF liz. and death. a grand
aggregation of mans glory and his
shame. 1t is. in short. a bird s-eyc
view Of all the magnanimitv and mean
ness. the joys and gricfs. the births and
deaths. the pride and poverty. of the
world. and all for two ccntS-some-
times.
could tell some more things that the
newspaper of to-day is if you had time
10 stay here and your business would
not suffer in your absence. Among
Others it is \ long feel: want. a nine-col-
umn paper in a tive-column town. a w.
inc sheet. Il feeble effort. q financial
problem, = tottering wreck. a political
tool and a sheritrs sale
1t were 10 suggest a curriculum
for The young man who wished to take
a regular course in a school Of Journal
ism, preferring that IL the actual cx.
perience. would say to him: devote
the first two year, 10 meditation and
prayer. This will prepare the Young
editor for the surprise and consequent
temptation TO profanity which in a few
years he may experience when he finds
thar the name of the Deity in his double
loaded editorial is spelled with \ little
&c. and the peroration of the article
is locked up between a death notice and
the advertisement Of = patent nous
tachc coaNer which is to follow pure
reading matter every day in the week
and occupy the top Of column on Sun
dav II.
The ensuing five years should be de-
voted to the peculiar photography OF tie
English language.
Then put in three years with the
dumb bells, sand bags. slung shots and
tomahawk. In my w journalistic X
perience l have found more cause for
regret over my neglect of this branch
than ANYTHING else. 1 usually keep on
nv desk during = heated campaign. .
large paper weight. weighing three OF
four pounds, and in several instances l
' ave found that / cou.d feed that to q
CONSTANT re: y # my valuable paper
instead of 3 ~rctraction.
Fewer people lick the editor. though.
than did SO in years gone by.
MANY people-in the last two years
have gone across the street to lick the
editor and never returned. They in