Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-04-12

sometimes write things they ought not 10
write, lot these facts be an alienation.
o. men OF the press, it will be a great
help to you II when you come home late AT
night, tagged out aud nervous with your
work, YOU would lust kneel down and
commend your case TO God, who has
watched all the fatigue of that day, ana
who has promised to be your God and the
GOD of your children forever.
Another great trial OF the newspaper
profession is the diseased appetite for un-
healthy intelligence. You blame the
newspaper press for giving such proml-
nence to murders and scandals. DO you
suppose that SO many papers would give
prominence to these things II tue people
did not demand them? 20 into the meat
market OF a foreign city, and tiud tnat
the butchers hang up on the most con
spiCuOus hooks meat that is tainted, While
the meat that is fresh and sayoTy is put
away without any especial care. come
to the conclusion that the people of that
city love tainted meat. Nou know very
we'll that II the great mass OF people IN
this country get hold OF reN spaper, and
there are in 1t no runaway matches, no
brOken-up families, no defamation OF men
In high position, they pronounce the paper
insipid. They say: alt Is shOcNngly dull
Tonight" believe IL ia one Of the trials of
the newspaper press, that the people of
this country demand moral slush instead
of healthy, iutella Ctual food. Now, you
are respectable man, an intelligent
man. and paper comes into your hand.
You open IT., and there are three columns
NJ splendidly written editorial, recon-
meudng some moral sentiment, or eVolV-
ing some scientific theory In the next
column there is a miserable, COntempta-
bic divorce case. Which 90 you read
first? You dip into the editorial long
enough 10 saw: "Well. that's very aolv
written,v and you read the divorce case
from the "long primer" type at the top,
TO the 'nOmpareip type at the bottom,
and then YOU ask your wife II she has
read it'll . it is only a case OF supply and
demand. Newspaper men are not fools.
They know what you want. and they
give it to you. believe that If
the church and the world bought nothing
but pure, honest, healthtul newspapers,
nothing hut pure. honest and healthtul
newspapers would be published. II you
should gather all the editors and the re-
porters of this country in one great con-
yenti0n and then ask OF them what kind Of
paper they would prefer to publish, be-
lieVe they would unanimously saw: I'VE
would prefer 70 publish an elevating pa
per-" SO long as there is an iniquitOus
demand there will be an iniqultOus sup
PLY. | make no apology for a debauched
newspaper, but am saying these things
in order TO divide the responsibility be-
tween those that print and those who
read.
Another temptation Of the newspaper
profession is the great alurement tha4
surrounds them. 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
BRAIN is racked. The blundering political
speech must read we'll for the sake of the
party, and 50 the reporter or the editor,
mas TO make it read WELL although every
sentence was a catastrophe TO the English
language. The reporter must hear all
that an inaudible speaker, who thinks it
is vulgar TO speak out, says; and il must
be right the next morning or the next
night in the papers, though, the night be-
fore. the whole audience sat with its hand
behind its ear, in vain trying to
catch it. This man must 60 through
killing night-wOrk. He must 90
into heated assemhlages, and
into unventilated audience rooms that
are enough TO take the life cut of MIN. Ii q
must visit court rooms, which are almost
always disgusting with rum and tobacco
He must expose himself at the fire. He
must write in fWtld alley-Ways, Added
g. all that, he must have hasty mastlca-
tiOu and irregular habits. TO bear up un-
der this tremendous nervous strain, they
are tempted 10 artificial stimulus, and
how many thousands have gone down un-
der that pressure God only knows. They
mast have something 10 countcract the
wet; they must have something TO keep
out the chill, and after a scant nights
sleep. they must have something 30 revive
them for the mornings work. This is what
made Horace Greeley such a stout tem-
perance man. He told me that he had
seen so many OF bis comrades go down
under that temptation. Ca, my brother
of the newspaper profession, what you
cannot do without artificial stimulus
God does not want you TO do. There Is no
halfway ground for our literary people
between teetotalism and dissipation.
Your professional success. your domestic
peace, your eternal salvation, will depend
upon your theories in regard to artificial
stimulus. / nave had 80 many friends 20
down under the temptation, their bril-
fancy queuched, their homes blasted,
that / cry out this morning, IN the words
OF another: "LOOk not upon the VINE
when it is red, when II moyeth Itself
Alright in the cup; for at the last 10 biteth
like "A serpent and 10 stingeth Ike an ad-
der"
Another trial Of this profession, IS the
fact that no one seems to care for their
souls They feel bitterly about IL, though
they laugh. People sometimes laugh the
l0udes, when they ieel the worst They
are expected 90 gather up religious pro-
eecdiugs, and 10 discuss religious doc
tHnes ia the editorial columns, but who
expects them 20 be- saved by the sermons
they phOnOgraph, or BY the doctrines they
discuss no the editorial columns The
world looks upon them as professional.
VINO breaches 20 reporters and editors ?
Some OF them came from religious homes,
and when they left the parental roof,
whoever regarded or disregarded, they
come OF with a fathers benedlc-
ti0n aad a mothers prayer.
Thev never think OF those good
old times but tears come into their eyes,
aud they move around this great, roaring
metropolis hOmc-sick ., n they only
knew what a helpful thing it is for a man
TO put his weary head down on the bosom
Of a sympathetic Christi lie knows how
nervous aud tired you are. He has heart
large enough 10 take in all your interests
for this world and the next. o, men OF
the newspaper press, you sometimes get
sick Of this world, 1t seems 80 hollow
and unsausfying. lfthere are any people
in all the earth that need God, you are the
men, aud you shall have Hiu, lif only
this day you implOre His mercy.
A man was found at the foot OF Canal
street. As they picked him mp from the
water and brought him 10 the mOrgue,
they saw by the contour OF his forehead
that he had great mental capacity. He
had entered the newspaper profession.
lie hfti gone down In health. He took TO
artificial stimulus. He went down fur