The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-10-18
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Say for the Reporter
Reporters. what are theya
They are the men that hold the mirror
up TO nature. They paint the picture
which feasts the public eye. They ara
worn to skim and bone in the service Of
others. They sharpen their wits, as they
do their pencils. along tile line of duty.
whether duty calls them to the front Of
battle, to coal mine depths, to torrid
heats or frigid blasts. Who plunged
through the billiards. drifts and told tho
stories in the daily pressp have upon
my table rcd covered book, across
which. in startling type, ! read New
York in the blizzard" thirty-five pages
Of closely printed type selected from the
columns of The New York Sun. embody-
ing most faithful pen portraiture Of the
great city's three days snow siege.
Who wrote the storyp
Whose dignity was cast aside, while
the heavens opened, and the hail came
down, and the myradic multitudincsities
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 to
scorn the futile efforts Of mammoth
steam plonghs, 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 slavery2
Newspaper pages voluminous in extent
told the story day by day.
Who wrote the story2 -
A merchant prince is dying: the pub
lie want to know about him. A great
statesman losses on bed of pain; the
public are greatly interested. An en-
peror crowned, with scepter in hand,
nears his first meeting with the king of
kings, and all the world is hlislled, any
ious to catch bis last earthly utrerance,
and to see with the eye of understanding
the pageant as it 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-
ire, corridoristic, seeing and hearing,
participating to q certain extent in the
ongoings of the deliberative body.
But the nation-how is it to klow2
Why. the newspapers tell it.
Certainly, but who writes fts Who
with quick eye detects Mr.. Jones from
Arkansas. as lie rises in his place and
speaks to the ears of a listening country?
Who detects an. oddity, uniqueism.
peculiarity2 Who, calm and without the
faintest trace Of perturbation, looks upon
the 10000 excited men and women,
shouting. yelling, defying united elc-
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
there2
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, more than umbilical attach
ment with their mother country. How
eagerly they turn every morning to read
the news from abroad. Charleston
might be burned 100 times, Chicago
might go up in smoke and down in
flame. San Francisco might beswallowed
by an earthquake and the isles of the sea
forever disappear beneath the ceascless
tides without causing more than a mo-
mentary exclamation, but let it be known
that Queen Victoria is. on her death bed,
let it be understood that an uprising has
taken place in Ireland, cause it to be pub
lished that the emperor and Bismarck
have quarreled, tell even that dynasty
has been shaken in China, how eagerly
they will peruse, how anxiously they
wait for the coming of the next batch!
Who tells it2-Joe Howard in New
York Graphic.