Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-28

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The biggest financial hole ever dug IN THIS
American continent is the hole IL wn'cn
good people throw their money when they
start newspaper. 1t is almost as gOod
and as quick a way Of getting rid OF money
| as buying stock in a gold NINE in Colorado.
Not more printing presses but the rign'
use of those already established. All their
cylinders, al their steam power, all their
pens, ali their types, all their edltoriai
chairs and repcrtorial rooms are available
il you would engage them in behalf OF
civilization and Christianity.
Again: If you would secure the secular
press as q mightier reinforcement OF re.
liyion and the pulpit, extend wisest ana
highest Christian courtesies to the repre-
sentatives of journalism. Give them easy
chairs and plenty OF room when they come
to report occasions. For the most part
they are gentlemen Of education and re-
finement, graduates of colleges, with fam
lilies to support by their literary craft,
many of them weary with the push OF
business that is precarious and fuctuating,
each one Of them the avenue Of informa-
ton to thousands of readers their impress
sion Of the services to be the impression
adopted by multitudes. They are connect
ing links between u sermon or song or a
prayer and this great population that
tramp up and down the streets day by day
and year by year with their sorrows I'M
comforted and their sins unpardoned.
More than SEQ. 900 people in Brooklyn and
less than 5000 in churches, so that orr
cities are not so much preached to by min
listers OF religion as by reporters.
Put all Journalists into our prayers and
oil no
sermons preached to-day there will not be
three preached to journalists, and proba-
bly, not one. or all the prayers offered
for classes of men innumerable the prayer 8
offered for this most potential class will
be so few and rare that they will be
thought a preachers idiosyncrasy. This
world will never be brought to God
until some revival of religion sweeps
over the land and takes into
the kingdom of God editors
and reporters, compositors, pressmen
and newsboys. And if you have not faith
enough to pray for that, and toll for that,
you had better get out of our ranks and
join the other side, for you are t: e unbe-
lever who make the wheels OF the Lords
chariot drag heavily. The great final bat
tie between truth and error the Arranged
and shells and guns, but with pens-quill
pens, steel p rs, gold pens, fountain pens,
and. before that, the pens must be con-
verted. The most divinely honored weapon
of the past has been the pen and the most
divinely honored weapon of the future will
be the pen; prophets pen and evangelists
pen and apostles pen, followed by editors
pen and reporters pen and authors pen.
God save the pen! The wing of the Apo
calyptic angel will be the printed page.
The printing press will roll ahead Of
Christ's chariot to clear the way.
But" some one might ask, ''would you
make the Sunday newspapers also rein
forcementr Yes, would. Ihave learned
to take things as they are. would like to
see the much scOffed-at old Puritan Sab
baths come back again. do not think the
modern Sunday will turn out any better
men and women than were your grand
fathers and grandmothers under the old
fashioned Sunday. To say nothing Of
other results, Sunday newspapers are
killing ciitors, reporters, compositors
and pressmen. Every man, woman
and child is entitled to twenty-four
hours of nothing to do. II the newspapers
put on another set Of hands that does not
relieve the editorial and reportorial room
OF its cares and responsibilities. Our lit
erary men die fast enough without killing
them with Sunday work But the Sunday
newspaper has come to stay. 1t will stay
good deal longer than any Of US stay.
What, then, shall we do! Implora all
those who have any thing to do with issu-
ing it to fill it with moral and religious in
formation; live sermons and facts elevat-
ing. Urge them that all divorce cases be
dropped and instead thereof have good ad-
vice as to how husbands and wives ought
to live lovingly together. Put in small
type the behavior of the swindling church
member and in large type the contribution
Of some Christian man toward an asylum
for feeble-minded children or q seaside
sanitarium. Urge all managing editors to
put meanness and impuriiy in pearl or
agate type and charity and fidelity and
Christian consistency in BREWER or bour-
geois. If we can not drive out the Sunday
newspaper let US have the Sunday news
paper converted.
The fact is that the modern Sunday news
paper is great improvement on the old
Sunday newspaper. What beastly thing
was the Sunday newspaper Of thirty years
ago! It was enough to destroy a mans re-
speciality to leave the tip end of it stick
ing out Of his coat pocket. What editorials!
What advertisements! What pictures!
The modern Sunday newspaper is as much
ar improvement on the old time Sunday
newspaper as one hundred is more than
twenty five; in other words about IS per
cent. improvement.
Who knows that by prayer and kindly
consultation with our literary friends we
we may have it lifted into positively re-
ligious sheet printed on Saturday night
and only distributed. like the american
Messenger. or the Missionary Journal, or the
Sunday School Adrocate, on Sabbath MORN
ings. ALI things are possible with God and
my faith is up until nothing in the way of
religious victory would SURPRISE me-
All the newspaper printing presses Of
the earth are going TO be the Lords. and
telegraph AMI telephone and type will yet
announce nations born in a day. The first
book ever printed was The Bible by Faust
and his sCn-in-law. Scohe fer, in AGO. and
that conservation OF type TO the Holy
Scriptures Was a prophecy of the great
mis- sion OF printing for the CHARACTERIZATION
of all the nations. The father of the
American printing press was a clergyman
Rev. Jesse Glover, and that was prophecy
of the religious use that the gospel minis.
try in this country We're to make of the
types.
Again, we shall sec ure the secular press
as mightier reinforcement O: religion
and The pulpit bv making our religious
utterances more interesting aud spirited.
and then the press will reproduce them
On the way to church some fifteen years
ago journalist SAID thing that has kept
me ever since thinking: "Are you gong
you meanm | asked. He said: II near
by that any thing that will be striking
enough to be remembered" Then 1 said