The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-04-27

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read it! 20, it is only case. of supply
and demand. Newspaper men are not
fools. They know what you want, and
they give i to you. believe that II the,
Church and the world bought nothing.
but pure, honest. bealthful newspapers,
would be published. II you should
gather all the editor and reporters Of this
country in one great convention, and
then ask Of them what kind of paper,
they would prefer to publish. / believe.
they would unanimously say: "We
would prefer TO publish an elevatipg
papef." So long as there is an iniqul-
tous demand, there will be an iniqu,tous
supply. / make no apology for a, de-
bauched newspaper but I am saying
these things in order to divide the re-,
sponsibility between those TINT print and
those that read.
Another temptation of the newspaper
profession is :,
sA TIE GREAT ,ALLUREMENT ,r H..
that surrounds them.a Every occupation
and profession has temptations peculiar
to itself, and the newspaper profession
is not an exception. The great draught.
as you know, is on the nervous forces,
and the brsin il racked. The blunder-
ing political speech must read we'll for
the sake of the party, and SO the reporter
or the editor, has to make it read we'll,
although every sentence was catastro
pbe to the English language. 4 The re-
porter must hear all that an inaudible
speaker, who thinks tits vulgar to speak
out, t,ssays; and it must be right the next
morning Or the next night in the papers,
though the night before. the whole su.
dience sat with its hand behind its ear.
10 vain trying 10 catch it. This man
must 60 through killing nightwork. He
must go into heated assemblages, and
into unventilated audience rooms that
are enough to take the lie out of him.
He must visit court rooms which are al
most alsays disgusting with rum and to.
bacco. He must expose himself. at the
Gre. He must write in fo id alley, ways.
Added to all that he must have hasty
mastication and irregular habits, To
bear up under the tremendous nervous
strain, they are tempted to artificial sti.
mulus, and how many thousands have
gone down under that pressure God only
knows, They must have something to
counteract the wet, they must have come
thing to keep out the chill, and after q
scant nights sleep, they must have some.
thing to revive them for tbs mornings s
work. This is what made Horace Gree
ley such q stout temperance man. He
told me that he had seen so many of bis
comrades go down under that tempta-
tion. Oh, nv brother of the newspaper
profession, what you cannot do without
artificial stimulus, God does not want
you to do. There's no halfway ground
for our literary people between taetotal.
ism and dissipation. Your professional
success, your domestic peace, your eter-
nal salvation. will depend upon your
theories in regard to artificial stimulus.
have had so many friends 60 down un-
der the temptation, their brilliancy
quenched. their homes blasted, that
cry out this morning, in the words OF an
other: "Look not upon the wine when
it ls red, when 1t moveth itself Alright in
the cup; for at the last, it biteth like q
serpent, ard it stingeth like an adder"
Another trial Of this profession, is the
fact that 80
NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE FOR THEIR SOULS.
They feel bitterly about it. though they
laugh. People sometimes laugh the
loudest when they feel the worst. They
are expected to gather up religious pro-
ceedings, and to discuss religious doc
trines in the editorial columns, bot who
expects them to be saved by the sermons
they phonograph, or by the idoctrinee
they discuss in the editorial columns
Tue world looks upon them as profess
ional. Who breaches to reporters and
editors? !? Some of them came from rellg
ious homes, and when they lef. the par
entail roof, whoever regarded or disre-
garded, they come of with a father's
benediction end a mothers prayer. They
never think ofthose good old times. but
tears come into their eyes, 5auds they
move around this great; roaring metrop-
oils homesick. O,sif they only knew
what helpful thing it Is for man to
put bis weary head down on the bosom
of a sympathetic Christ He knows how
nervous and tired you are. He has q
heart large enough to take in allyour 10
terests for this world and the next. o
men OF the newspaper press, you some
times get sick of this. world, it seems go
hollow and unsatisfying. Ifthere are
any peoples in all the earth that need God,
You are the men. and you shall have him
if only this day yon implore His mercy.
MAN WAS POUND = =
at the foot OF Canal street.. AS they
picked him up from the water and
brought him to the Morgue, they saw
bv the contour Of his forehead that he
had great mental capacity. He bad en-
tered the newspaper profession. He had
gone down in health He took to arti-
acial stimulus He went down. further,
and further, until one summer day, hot,
and hungry, and sick. and in despair, be
flung himself of the dock. They found
| in bis pocket reporters pad, q lead
pencil, photograph. of some one who
bad loved him long ago. Death, as some.
times it will, smoothed out the wrinkles
that had gathered prematnrely on his
brow, and as he lay there his face was az
fair as when seven years ago he left his
country home, and they bade him good
bye forever. The world through the
window Of the morgue, and savs, SITS
nothing but an outcast," but Cad ssys IL
was q gigantic soul that perished, be-
cause the world gave him no chance. Z
Let me ask all men connected with
the printing press that they help US more
and more In the effort to make the world
better. | charge you 10 the ma ne Of God
before whom von must account for the
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