The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
REMINISCENT.
Bill Nye's Recent Address to the
Wisconsin Press Association.

Wisconsin Fr6SS ASSOc1aG1On.
nm sure that when you so kindly in
vited me to address you to-day, you did
not anticipate lavish display of genius
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
years have been constant reader of
your valuable paper and like it. You
are running it just as | like to see q
newspaper run.
need not elaborate upon the won
derful growth of the press in our coun-
try, or refer to the great power which
journalism yields in the development
of the new world. l need not ladle out
statistics to show you how the newspa-
per has encroached upon the field of
Oratory and how the pale and silent
man, while others sleep, complies the
universal history of day and tells his
mighty audience what he thinks about
it before he goes to bed.
Of course, this is but the opinion of
one man, but who has a better oppor-
tunity 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 adj
vancep
need not tell you all this, for YOU
certainly know it if you read your pa
4 Il A 4
to read his own paper, even if he can
not indorse 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 for an active news
paper life, has attracted much attention
and discussion. 1t has been demon
strated that our. colleges do not fit
young man to walk at once into the
active management of paper. He
should at least know the difference be-
tween avile contemporary and a Gothic
scoop.
1t is difficult to map out proper
course for the student in school of
journalism, there are so many things
connected with the profession which the
editor and his staff should know, and
know hard. The newspaper of to-day
is library. 1t is an encyclopaedia, u
poem, a biography, history, aproph-
ecy, a directory, Timetable, ro-
nance, a cook book, a guide, horo-
scope, an art critic, political resume,
aneatltum t'e parUo. 1t is a sermon,
song, circus, an obituary, picnic,
shipwreck, q symphony in solid BREWER,
medley of life and death, grand
aggregation of mans glory and his
shame. 1t is, in short, q bird SIEVE
view of all the magnanimity and moan
ness, the joys and griefs, the births and
deaths, the pride and poverty, of the
world, and all for two cents-some-
times. HI a@
could tell some more things that the
newspaper of to-day is if you had time
to stay here and your business would
not suffer in Your absence. Among
others it is long-felt want nine-col-
umn paper in a tive-column town, w.
ing sheet, a feeble effort, q financial
problem, q tottering wreck, political
tool aud sheriff's SALE
If were to suggest curriculum
for the young man who wished to take
regular course in school OF journal
ism, preferring that to the actual ex-
,perience, Iwould say to him: devote
the first two years to 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
that the name of the Deity in his double
loaded editorial is spelled with q little
So, T" and the peroration of the article
is locked up between q death notice and
the advertisement of a patent NOUS
tache coaXer which is to follow pure
reading matter every day in the week
and occupy the top OF column on Sun
dav If.
The ensuing five years should be de-
voted to thepeculiar photography of the
English language.
Then put in three years with the
dumb bells, sand bags, slung shots and
tomahawk. In my own journalistic ex.
perience l have found more cause for
regret over my neglect of this branch
than anything else. | usually keep on
my desk during heated campaign, a
large paper weight, weighing three or
four pounds, and in several instances
have found that / could feed that to a
constant reader Of my valuable paper
instead of a retraction
Fewer people lick the editor, though,
now, 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
tended to come right back in few
moments, but they are now in land
where a change of heart and palm
leaf fan is all they need.
Fewer PEOPLE are robbing the editor
nowadays, too, / notice with much
pleasure. Only a short time ago L
noticed that burglar succeeded in
breaking into the residence of Dakota
journalist, and after long, hard strug-
gle, the editor succeeded in robbing
him.
After the primary course, mapped out
already, an intermediate course of ten
years should be given to learning the
typographical art so that when visitors
come in and ask the editor all about