Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-05-24
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What n Well Known Journalist Has -
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What n Well Known Journalist Has -
Say for the Reporter.
Reporters, what are theyl
They are the men that hold the mirros
up to nature. They paint the picture
which feasts the public eye. They are
worn to SKIN and bone in the sc ice Of
others. They sharpen their wits, as they
do their pencils, along the line Of duty,
whether duty calls them to the frolt Of
battle, to coal mine depths, to tnrrid
heats or frigid blasts. Who plunged
through the blizzard's IS drifts and told the
stories in the daily press? / have upon
my table a red covered book, across
which, in startling type, / read New
York in the Blizzard" thirty-tive pages
of closely printed type selected from the
columns Of The New York Sun, embody-
ing a most faithful pen portraiture of the
great city's three days snow siege.
Who wrote the storyi
Whose dignity was cast aside. while
the heavens opened, and the hail came
down. and the myradic multitudinosities
of freezedom heaped up great mountains.
apparently impossible, mighty enough at
all events TO stop the onward plunging OF
red hot locomotives, and to laugh 10
scorn the futile efforts Of mammoth
steam ploughs, to put under bondage
every road the country through, to force
great steamers on the rocks, to throw
down wires, to check industry in every
known channel, to make trade dead and
, throw commerce into slaveryf
Newspaper pages voluminous in extent
told the story day by day.
Who wrote the storyi
A merchant prince is dying; the pub
| lie want 10 know about him. A great
statesman tosses on bed Of pain; the
public are greatly interested. An en-
perer crowned. with scepter in hand.
nears his first meeting with the king OF
kings, and all the world is hushed, anx-
ious 10 catch his last earthly utUerance,
and TO see with the eve Of understanding
the pageant as il passes. Three hundred
men assemble in hall, charged with the
duty of selecting presidential standard
bearer. Ten thousand spectators crowd
into the great spaces, gallery, amphithea-
tire, corridoristic, seeing and hearing,
participating to a certain extent in the
ongoings of the deliberatiye body.
But the nation-how is il 10 know7
Why, the newspapers tell il.
Certainly, but who writes itl Who
with quick eve detects Mr.. Jones from
Arkansas, as he rises in his place and
speaks to the ears Of listening country2
Who detects AN oddity, a uniqueism, a
popularity? Who, calm and without the
faintest trace Of perturbation, looks upon
the 10000 excited men and women,
shouting. yelling, defying united ele-
ments in their uproar. and notes the
while, as the telegraphic click click car
ries the news the land around, every in-
cident, so that the people, reading, are
made as familiar with the scenes OF tu-
mutt and disorder as though they were
therel
This is the reporters duty.
Millions of people born beyond the sea
live, and move, and conduct their in
dnstries In this land of the free, retaining,
however, a more than umbilical attach
ment with their Imother country. How
eagerly they turn every morning to read
the news from abroad. Charleston
might be burned 100 times, Chicago
might 60 up in smoke and down in
flame, San Francisco might be swallowed
by an earthquake and the isles of the sea
forever disappear beneath the ceaseless
tides without causing more than mo-
mentary exclamation, but let il be known
that Queen Victoria Is ON her death bed,
let il be understood that an uprising has
taken place in Ireland, cause 1t 10 bepub-
lished that the emperor and Bismarck
have quarreled, tell even that a dynasty
has been shaken in China, how eagerly
they will peruse, how anxiously they
wait for the coming Of the next batchl
Who tells itl-Joe Howard in New
York Graphic.