Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-05-13

hay and daffodils; as greatly as the
specialist may enjoy his hobby; as
g~leefully as the child may clap its
hands and sing I'VE the mental pic
lures which its mind can grasp, no
newspaper can cover all of these fields.
First of all it is a newsy paper, to record
in stereoscoplc procession the events of
the day; but if he is to properly inform
the reader of his newspaperitls obvious
that the editor must have more than
two subjects, "Man doth not live by
bread only" neither intellectually can
he live on political factional quarrels
fer pap" or upon salacious criminal
reports. Indeed the less he has OF either
of these the better. The gentleman
who with line and hook, like rare old
lzaak Walton, enjoys a contemplative
walk by brook and mead, would be
shocked if he were termed a sporting
man, instead of a sportsman and a
lover of the fields, 50 there is a great
difference between a politician and a
statesman. 1t should be the aim of the
editor to discuss public measures from
the high plane of the latter rather than
from the selfish and narrow one of the
former; and he should see to it that his
readers are informed, by his columns,
upon contemporaneous scientific and
artistic thought and, where the op-
%portunity offers, that they have bright
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and lift the soul above the irksome
workaday world that is the lot of sc
many.
One fault of the metropolitan editor
| need not here rehearse at length
the reporting of every detail of the
most revolving and prurient crimes.
am glad to know that as a rule the
newspapers controlled by the members
of this association only sufficiently re
port certain species of crime that pub
licity shall deter the commission O
similar nisdeeds by others, omittin,
details which render many of the daily
newspapers unfit to be taken into tn,
family. The editor has a duty to per
form here hat he should not overlook
The evil stands confessed. 1t is onl,
palliated by the mercenary excuse tina.
1t sells papers and consequently pays
A cancer, as it were, that augment
the mass of putridity upon which i
feeds But as the border-land of licens
Is being rapidly approached who is t
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lea? There has of late years, too, BEEF
a pernicious tendency in our news
papers to idle, yes worse than idle Cos
gip. Gossip which goes so far as t
fiaunt about the names of the YOU
girls of our homes; talks i%mpudentl.
of their plans and Intentions; make
public property of them even befor
they have fairly left the nursery; ez
pands reports of their childisI
festivities; advertises the clothe
they wear, and unsexes them so ia
as the chief charm of young woman
hood is Concerned to all RICH
, thinking people.
So, after all, it seems, my friend;
that editorial ethics comprises simpl
the duty that devolves upon any teach
. er, the elevation, intellectually an
morally, of the taught. The editor ha
a larger class than the pedagogue an
q greater congregation than the preach
er. His profession is SO powerful thu
|. it has come to be called the fourth e.
ta~te-those that precede it being til
family, the church, the state. In til
, interest of these three journa.
ism has no quarrel with, but is the all
ofthe teacher and the minister. /
| acknowledges it's imperfections of to
scanty knowledge, hasty ami often jill
considered judgments. language 81 az
Hines of but little culture, too cables
p1eRk44tion ofaxtieles upon lmpostan
zeAssp admits ths