The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-08-01

each there is osxeain AigA tone ana character which have not found in the New York morning papers of the same class. The type sf your papers is small and difficult to read. But the worst feature in them is the prominence they give to little bits land biz bits, tool oG any one ln London lovers of scandal read 7IHfA or z6~ea Talk, but the rcgu. lar daily papers do not make vice and scandal a prominent feature in their pages. have been told by many gentle men in New York that they never allow their daughters to read daily morning paper. It is quite impossible, l know, to keep such things out of the papers, es- pccially when they get into the police courts bat your daily papers seem to tax their utmost ingenuity and skill to give the greatest prominence to unsavory sub lects Take up a New York morning paper, and you will find the platform ut terances of your chief statesman dts missed in a few words, whilst its leading pages will be covered with headings such as She Shoots Herself Attacked by a Negro in Her House. The Child Poly gamist,' Miss Jones Elopes,' She Left Him for Ever,' He Loved Her too Weil,' and so on, ad nauseam. In London this kind ot newspaper work is entrusted to the Poifte NesVs and Tovs 7aik, and other such papers which respectable citi. xens would never admit into their houses, and no respectable hotel would leave on its tables. have no Utopian idea re- garding the press. know scandals must get into the papers. But why :n the name of common decency do editors. who are gentlemen of education and refine ment. serve these little details with all their skill and energy, as though it were of the greatest interest to the general public to know that John Jones had run away with Sarah Smith In England we regard the leading London journals as the teachers of the people. But it is quite impossible for the press in New York to assume dignified position as long as newspaper editors make no effort to get out of what appears to be this rut of American journalism. Your daily papers are also badly printed. This Is all the more remarkable because the art of printing has reached a degree of ex. cellcnce in New York which far exceeds that of any ely in Europe.
 have visited your law courts. Ot course 1 missed the gown and wig, This is not of much consequence in a great and free country like this. But when you threw away the gown and wig, am afraid you parted with the dignity also. At least, one morning when went into your supreme court, found one of your judges Ca respectable old gentleman) with an auctioneer's hammer in his hand, humping tor silence, and the barristers in front of him seemed a disorganize mob. in another court found the learned counsel actually seated as he ex- amined witness who happened to be lady. Only those who had been &C., customed to Bri ish law courts q don't say irish) can possibly understand the feel ings with which 1 left your courts of justice. am not surprised to read in a morning paper that in a certain court in one of the central states, two bairisters actually fought in the presence of the judge. When vas in England used to laugh at the judges wig and think it a remnant of less civilized age, but un- derstand it all now. The wig keeps silence and order better than the auc- tioneer's hammer TAe Crihe.