Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-05-13

names III my paper, with u passionate
adjective or two here and there.
First, because they will read them,
and second, because everybody else
will also.
To sun up-there Is possibly not
as much money in the newspaper
profession as some others, but there
is still more than a competence to
those who resolutely labor. Looking
at it from a moral standpoint no cali
ing can equal it in the opportunities
fer doing good, though few vie
with it in the temptations presented
to the youth upon its threshold. 1t
cu~ltivates the social element in mans
nature, brings him into contact with
all classes and conditions, makes him
more catholic, more tolerant in his
views and liberal in his judgments.
1t is the great educator and those
who labor in the ranks-humble
though they be, country newspaper
men, mayhap, with q handful of type
and a Washington hand pressure
yet coadjutors with The eternal in the
work of uphuilding, identifying and
enrolling the world.
In conclusion let me say for this
unsatisfactory essay that it has been
written in the intervals of endeavor-
ing to recover gracefully from one of
the hottest political fights aver waged
in my county, in which the candidate
of the writer for congress was beaten.
Indeed, no one under the most favor
able circumstances could cover in the
space of a single paper the subject
with which the committee have hon.
ored me. / have aimed to set down
a few thoughts on this great question
-mosaics in which there may be, for
those young like myself some worth
remembering. l have, however,
touched only the outskirts Of this
colossal theme. In the presence of
these veterans of the press I feel
abashed and silent. Would that l
could sometime attend an editors
experience meeting, at which each of
these stalwart soldiers would give
"reminiscences of the sand and waste
over which they have travelled,
where there was neither refreshing,
running weter nor oyerhanging rocks
for shade; glowing descriptions OF
the patches of green grass-the fat
takes along the way, the pre-
cious by their infrequency.
With pleasant, loyal remembrance
are all these soldiers borne in mind.
Their names and virtues have been
handed down to us young, unworthy
followers, until We, although we may
never have met them personally, fee
the pressure of their hands and the
stimulation of their examples. They
may be removed from the Imperial
State as Field and Child and Nc
Michael. Or sadder still the answer
to some names is, like that to the
name of the French Grenadier fol
two centuries, dead on the field Of
honor Reagan and Carter, McFar
land and John B. Williams, with
athers whose lives are heritages to
this association. As the tolls o
country newspaper life are grievous
AMI manifold, SO are its compensa
tiofs honorable and great.
Tie great newspaper calling-mor,
fascinating and alluring to him whe
has cnce penetrated into its inky
mysteries, than the Emerald Isle Il
wandering Orangeman, with posi-
bilities as limitless as the praises. o
the rowdy west, with a magniicen
vista of golden opportunities of FAM
and honor and usefulness opening VI
before the eyes of the young en-
thusiast--The poblest profession
under the sun!-I cannot add on
, word to its praise. The tongue of
Vest, the learning of a Calhoun, tn
, polished periods Of a Pope, even al
these could dc but feeble Justice to il
How then a I? But no tribut
could be sincere, none more heai tfel
than the lowly leaf Of laurel 1 brin,
to-day to express my appreciation c
its grandeur and my love for 1t
labors.