Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-12

say, gets his living Oy DTS W. Is, and III
day laborer says TO the mn of literar
toll. iiYou come down here and shove
plane, and hammer sbc,e-isst, and brea
cobblestones, and cara Gu honest living
as do, instead Of slt,ing there in idle
ness scribblyng.n Bat God know
that there are no hsrder-worke,
men in all the earth than tn
newspaper people Of this country. II I
not matter OF hard times; II is ,
characteristic Of all time. Men have
better appreciation Of that which appeals
TO the stomach than for that which
appeals TO the brain. They hay,
, no idea Of the immense financial anc
intellectual exhaustions of the ncwspa
. per press. They grumble because they
have to pay cents cory and wish they
lad only TO pay 8, or, paying 8, they wish
they had only TO pay 1 While there are
q few exceptions and some few do
/ make large fortunes-the vast majority
of newspaper people in this day have a
struggle for livelihood; and II In their
hardship and evaporation they some
times write things they ought not TO
write, let these facts be an alienation.
. men of the press, ii will DC great help
TO you II, when you come home late az
nigat, tagged ont and nervous with
your WORK, YOU would lust kneel
down aud commend your case
to God, who has watched all the fatigue
of that day, aud 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 Tor
unhealthy intelligence. You blame the
newspaper press for giving such promi-
nence TO murders and scandals. DO you
suppose that so many papers would give
prominence to these things II the people
did not demand themg 20 into the meat
market of foreign city, and liud that
the butchers hang up on the most con-
spicuous hooks meat that is tainted,
while the meat that is fresh and sayory is
put away without any especial care.
come to the conclusion that the people of
that city love tainted meat. You know
very well that ii the great mass Of people
in this country get hold of'a newspaper
aud there are in 1t no runaway-ma
no broken-up families, no defama-
ton OF men in high POI
sition, they pronounce the paper
insipid. They say; sit is shockingly
dull tonight" / 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 a respectable man, an intel
ligent man, and paper comes into Your
hand; You open it, aud there are three
columns OF splendidly written editorial,
recommending some moral sentiment, or
evolving some scientific theory. In the
next column there IS a miserable. con
temptible divorce case. Which do you
read hrstf You dip into the editorial
long enough to say; owen, that's very
ably wutten, aud you read the divorce
case from the dong primer type at the
top, to the 'uonparei' ypest the bot
tom, aud then YOU ask ylur Wi. il she
des read 10! ., /. Is only case of supply
sud demand Newspaper men ale not
fools. They know what you want, and they
giye 10 70 YOU believe that II [
the church and the world bought nothing
butpurc, honest, healthful newspapers, /
nothog but pure, honest and healthiGl I.
newspapers would be published. II you !
should gather all the editors and repcrt- |
ers OF this country In one great conyeu.
uou, and then ask OF them what kind of a 1
paper they would prefer to publish, | be- 1
iieye thay would unanimously say. eve /
would prefer TO publish sn elevatlng
paper" SO long rs there is an Ubiquitous /
demand there Will be an Ubiquitous sup
ply. | make no apology for debauched /
paper, but sm 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 allurement that
surrounds them. Every occupation aud |
has Z.
self, and the newspaper profession is not /
an exception. The great draught, as you (
know, Is on the nervous forces, aud the /
brain is racked The blundering, |
crude, political speech must read I
well fer the sake of the party, and so the |
reporter, or the editor, has TO make it |
read it well, although every sentence was
a catastrophe to the English language.
The reporter must hear all that an inau-
dible speaker, who thinks IL is vulgar to
speak out, says; and 1t must be right the |
next morning or the next night In the pa
pers, though, the night before, the whole
audience sat with its hand behind its ear,
In vain trying TO catch IT, This man
mus. go through killing night-work. lie /
must 20 into heated assemblages and I'M
ventilated audience rooms that are
enough to take the life out Of him. He
must visit court-rooms, which are almost
always disgusting with rum aud tobacco.
He must expose himself at the FIRE He
must write IN fm,ld alleyways. Added TO
all that, he must have hasty
and irregular hah-
its. To bear up under this tremendous
nervous strain, they are tempted to sru-
ilciai stimulus, and how many thousands
have gone down under that pressure God
only knows. They mast have something
TO couuteract the wet, they must have
something to keep out the chill, and
after Scant nights sleep they must have
something to revive them for the morn
inS's work. This is what made Horace
Greeley such stout temperance man
lie told me that he had seen so many of
hts comrades 80 down under that tempta.
lion. oh, my brother Of Tie newspaper
profession, what you eau not do Without
irtlncial stimulus God does NOS want
'on 10 &c. There IS no hallway ground
.or our literary people between teetotal-
sm and dissipation. Your professional
success your domestic peace, your
aterGel salvation viii depend npon your
theories in regard to artificial slim
Aus hsye bad 50 many friends
90 down under the temptation,
heir beilllancy quenched, thelr homes
d la. HHan.H