The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1886-04-21
without any especial care. I come to the

love tainted meat You know very well
chat II the great mass of people in this
country get hold of a newspaper and there
are in it no runaway matches, no broken
up families, no defamation Of men in high
position. they pronounce the paper in
sipid. They say, sit is shockingly dull
to-nightS' believe It is one of the trials
of the newspaper press, that the people of
this country demand moral slush instead
Of healthy, intellectual food. Now, you
are respectable man, an intelligent man,
and paper comes into your hand. You
open it, and there are three coll
umns of splendidly written edi-
torial, recommending Iome moral
sentiment, or evolving some scientific
theory. In the next column there is a mis-
erable, contemplate divorce case. Which
do you read first' You dip into the edi-
torial long enough TO say: "Well, that's
very ably written" and you read the
divorce case from the "long primer" type
at the top, to the "nonpareil" type at the
bottom, and then you ask your wife II she
has read III o, II is only case of supply
and demand. Newspaper men are no fools.
They know what you want, and they give
IL to you. believe that IL the church and
the world bought nothing but pure, honest
and healthful newspapers, nothing but
pure, honest and healthful newspapers
would be published. If you should gather
all the editors and reporters Of this coun-
try in one great convention, and then ask
Of them what kind of a paper they would
prefer to publish, believe they would
unanimously say: "We would prefer to
publish an elevated paper" So long as
there is an inquitous demand, there will be
an inqutous supply. make no apology
for debauched newspaper, hut am say
ing these things in order to divide the re-
sponsibility between those that print and
those who read.
Another temptation OF the newspaper
profession Is the great allurement that
surrounds them. Every occupation and
profession has temptations peculiar to
itself, and the newspaper profession is not
an execution. The great drauCht. as you
know, is on the nervous forces. and the
brain is racked. The laundering political
speech must read we'll for the sake Of the
party, and so the reporter, or the editor,
has TO make IL read well, although every
sentence was a cata strophe to the English
language. The reporter must hear all that
an inaudible speaker, who thinks it is vul-
| gar to speak out, says; and 1t must he
right the next morning or the next night
| in the papers, though the night before the
whole audience sat with its hand behind
| It's ear in vain trying TO catch it, This
man must go through killing night-work.
! He must 90 into heated assemblages, and
into unventilated audience-rooms that are
enough to take the life out of him. He
must visit court-rooms which are almost
always disgusting with rum and tobacco.
| He must expose himself at the fire. He
must write in fOtid alley-ways, Added
10 all that he must have hastv
mastication and irregular habits. To
bear up under this tremendous nerv'
Gus strain they are tempted TO arti.
fetal stimulus, and how many thousands
have gone down under that pressure God
only knows. They must have something
to counteract the wet, they must have
something to keep ont the chill, and after 4
scant nights sleep they must have some
.hing to revive them for the mornings
work. ThPt is what made Horace Greeley
such sso5t Temperance man.
Another trial OF this profession is tn
fact that no one seems to care for thei
souls. They feel bitterly about IL, thougl
they laugh. People sometimes laugh tn
loudest when they feel the worst. The
are expected to gather up religious pro
ceedings and to discuss religious doctrine
In the editorial columns, but who expect
them TO be saved by the sermons they pho
nograph, or by the doctrines they discus
In the editorial columnsy The world look
upon them as professional. Who preache
10 reporters and editorsI Some OF ther
came from religious homes, and when the
left the paternal rool, whoever regarded q
disregarded, they come of with father
benediction and mothers prayer. The
never think Of those good old times, br
tears come into their eyes, and they NOV
around this great, roaring metropol
homesick. o, II they only knew what
helpful thing II is for a man to put h
weary head down on the bosom Of a sym
pathetic Christi He knows how nervor
and tired you are. He has a heart lars
enough to take in all your interests in tn
world and the next. o, men Of the new
paper press, you sometimes get sick Of th
world, II seems so hollow and unsatisfyin
II there are any people in all the earth tht
need God, you are the men, and you sha
have HIM II only this day you implore II
mercy.
Let me ask all men connected with n
printing press that they help us more an
more in. the effort 10 make the world be
, ter. charge you in the name Of God, b.
; fore whom you must account for the tr
, mendous influence you hold in tn
; country, to consecrate yourselves
, higher endeavors. You are the men
, fight back this invasion OF corrupt II
| erature Lift up your right hand al
swear new allegiance TO the cause Of phi
, unthropy and religion. And when,
last, standing on the plains Of judgme
[ you look out upon the unnumbered thron
over whom you have had influence, mi
r II be found that you were among &
, mightiest energies that lifted men up'
, the exalted pathway that leads 10 the r
: nown Of Heaven. Better than to have 5
In editorial chair, from which, with d
finger Of type, you decided the destini
. OF empires, but decided them wrong, tn
/, you had been some dungeoned exile, wh
, by the light Of window IRON grated,
scraps Of New Testament leaf, picked I
from the hearth, spelled out the story
r Him who taketh away the sins Of Il
. world.
/ In eternity Dives is the beggarl
. Well, my friends, we win all soon 9
. through writing and printing and proc
l reading. What thenf Our life ls boo
. Our years are the chapters. Our mont
Z are the paragraphs. Our DAYS are b