Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-06

At the Friday session Of the United
Presbyterian body, formal resolutions
were introduced and passed in set terms
condemning the Sunday newspaper as an
institution that was full Of moral OBJ
IIiquity, and calling upon all the mem-
bers of that faith to discountenance it.
Nay more, the hand Of fellowship was to
be withdrawn from all who advertised in
it. This, too, in these United States, and
at the latter end of the nineteenth CEN
fury. It is singular that any body Of re-
ligionists anywhere, much less in this
country, can be found to boldly avoW
such sentiments. In this country jour-
nalism has been carried to a perfection
and has attained a completeness visible
nowhere else. 1t is here that the dis
covery was made and acted upon that the
mi ssion Of a newspaper is to furnish
news before all things, and that the opin-
ion Of a paper upon questions of the day
is q secondary matter and one with
which the success or failure OF a paper
has nothing to do. One Of the most suc-
cessful journals in the United States is
the st. Louis Globe Democrat, published
in the very heart of a Democratic COM
munity and maintaining the most bitter
and unrelenting warfare upon Democ-
racy-and yet having the largest circula-
ton of any paper in the Mississippi VAL
ley, and all because its news service was
from its very start the best that money
could command. A paper that wants to
succeed among metropolitan dailies to-
day must be unsparing in gathering and
collecting the news Of the world. The
Sunday paper of the metropolis has
grown up to be a small volume in itself.
Every subject is touched upon by turns
history, poetry, fiction, speculative phil
osophy, religion, the drama, sporting
nothing in the wide range OF subjects OF
human interest is overlooked. 1t is the
aim to cover as many fields of general in
terest and to detail the latest achieve
ments of the human mind in every realm
of thought from the highest to the lowest.
1t aims to be an educator in the best
sense of the word, and no one familiar
with the leading dailies Of the land, but
must confess that the astonishing grasp
of subjects shown in their double and
treble numbers is the most convincing
proof of the widespread existence of a
high and broad civilization in this cOun-
try. Any single issue of n of these
papers contains food for the mind for a
week of the richest and most varied
description. For q religious body to
condemn this product and evidence of
our high civilization argues a singular
lack Of appreciation Of what is n OF the
greatest factors in the progress Of that
civilization. 1t overlOOks the fact that
through it the attachments of science
and philosophy and history are brought
within reach Of the humblest citizen at q
price SO trifing as to be another cause
for marvel. The necessities Of our adj
vaneed state of civilization make it i'm
operative that the latest occurrences in
every department of human interest
should be daily reported, and that at 8
nominal price. And the same necessities
demand that the Sunday newspaper shall
continue to advance in its mission Of
furnishing the most complete epitome o.
the condition Of modern thought. Ii
strong contrast with the illiberal actor
Of the body referred to is that Of the BODY
Of lMfsh4h08 qfgaf,, G eu apfse affy f GhfisqIa ct X HasS
cate, a record Of the proceedings of theil
ecumenical council now in session, wa
printed on Sunday, being a work O
necessity to which custom, precedent an(
observance had to give way.