Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-25

and the daily press serves 1t to US at
our homes. The rise OF the press
has been The signal for the most ex-
traordinary fertility In the production
and utterance of ideas. This Is the most
prolif; age intellectually that the world
has ever known. Thought has beer
stimulated by the power of expression
Great has become the demand for this
daily service. Still, 1t is not always clean.
nor sweet. The ears Of newspaper writ
ers listen too often with 10 good motive
Only to catch the sensational. Still NJ
one can afford to be without the knOWl
edge OF the world as furnished by tht
daily press.
"Much of our literature comes to III
first in the magazines. BY the magazine
method of dividing the work of reading
into sections or ins!sllwents 1t creates
two disadvantages. First, we are be
guiled too much into reading that whict
! is useless aud vain, and, second, We fal
into habit Of intermittent thought.
book read In iustallments always need:
rereading Ia order to oe properly
judged. On the whole, the msga
z:nes are the most promising signs Of oul
times. They aim high, cultivate a rising
taste, and promote knowledge and intel
ligerce. The disposition to create the
critical and knowing disposition is ems
danger epringiDg from mage zioe reading
A man may condepse good deal Of
learning In a magazine article, but on
the other hand nobody can reverse the
process and expIrd much lesInipg out OF
g brief article. The daily psper Who
knows what to say of It? That marvel OF
enterprise, that insepsrable companion OF
our daily lives, that audacious, unscrupu,
lous, dangerous visitaut at our homes. !
feel ike asking Gods blessing and ludg-
ment On it at the same time. OF course
there are newspapers and newspapers.
We must remember the good when we
think of the bad. Like the poor, 1t Is al
ways with US. With all its evils 1t is in
lina with Divine Providence. 1t
lets more and more light in on the world
daily. We are unable to shut the doors
on the press. 1t Is a mingled sheet OF
good snd Ill as is the world Of which Il Is
the type ard representative. In general,
the better class OF men feel more and
more the serious defects In the tenper
and tone OF the average daily paper.
First, one doubts the sincerity of the
dailies. Can anything be more democrat
izine7 Second, one Is shocked by their
4 poency."
The preacher iDstauced Chicago daily
which printed over sn account Of mSn
attempting to shoot q couple Of girls the
heading, "GunniDg for Girls" and abI We
the report Of Judicial execution the
miserable pun. 1.-THE Latest Moose"
"Auother fault is their reckless and
ruthless invasion Of the privacy of human
llfe," continued the speaker. "Ssmuel
Bowles once said "a man might do as an
editor what he could po5 as a gentle
man. But he never attempted to prove
it In his paper. The daily psper
Ia almost always violent
partisan. 1t cannot afford to be fair. II
IS not fair enough to be candid nor csndid
enough to be fair. Most OF ell to be
cersured in the newspaper is the habit Of
hunting for scandal. Can we never i'm
press it on men and women that this is
not life? At least let the good and bad
hsve an equal show in the dailies. Let
the detective fad the beneiscsor IS well
IS the criminal. Let US not
forget that the newspaper repre-
sent5 but one side of life, and that
the evanescent side. 1t is as the wind
made riffl2s OF the oceans surface to the
grand, serious and true thoughts Of life
which roll as the tides below it. look
for better iudsm sut and wise intelligence
in the daiiies. Human life is higher,
keener sud better than the dailies repre-
sent Future literature, shsll we not
hope, will give credit 10 those grGud
forces moving human life as well as to
lite's petty contentious and scsndsls.n