River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-08-02
EDITORIAL OUTING.
The Quill-Drivers of Wisconsin Give
Ear to the New York Veteran.
A Journey Mid the Pines and Through
the Mineral Regions of the North.

The meeting of the Press Association
of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, July oath,
was an occasion of unusual interest,
and the fraternity made good use Of
the opportunity for the introduction
of a literary feature that was of value
to the general public, in the address
made on Tuesday evening by Hon.
Chas. A. Dana. of the New York sun.
The speaker was greeted by a large
audience made up of the cultivated
people of the city and the Press repre-
sentatives, and he put every body at
ease by frankly stating his gratitude
for the invitation and his pleasure in
the presence of an audience so marked
in magnitude and quality. The adj
dress was delivered in an easy manner
with slight reference to notes. and it
consisted in a vivid antithesis of the
methods and results of editors now
and of fifty years ago. The speaker
laid down a few principles which
should govern the Editor, and though
he denied the present practicability of
a school other than the printing Office
for journalists. he confessed that those
principles might constitute the nu.
cleus of doctrine for such a school,
and hence in process Of time the school
would be wrought out. His principles
for to-day are:
FirsJ-Get the news. and get all the
news, and nothing but the news.
SecOnd-Copy nothing from another
publication without perfect credit.
Third-Never print an interview
without the knowledge and consent
of the interviewed.
FOurth-Never print a paid adver-
tisement as news matter. Let every
advertisement appear as an advertise.
ment--nO sailing under false cOlOrs.
Fifth-NeYer attack the weak or the
defenseless, either by argument. by
invective, or by ridicule, unless thel e
is some absolute public necessity fol
SO doing.
SiXth-Figbt for your opinions, but
don't believe they contain the whole
truth, or the only truth.
Seventh-SuppOrt your party, if you
have one loud laughter and applause /
but don't think all the good men are in
it and all the bad ones outside of it.
Eighth-AbOve all know and believe
that humanity is advancing, and that
there is progress in human life and
human affairs, and that as sure as Cod
lives the future will be greater anC
better than the present or the past.
The eighth proposition reveals the
whole of Mr.. Dana's character,-ar
optimist, a spirit that evel
tries to encourage his fellow men, and
/ therefore, as a journalist, likely Il
task his follower with burdens of to,
much belief. Like late utterances O.
Mr.. Beecher, this eighth proposition
of the speaker comes from a man o
great vigOr whose judgments ar,
tinged by the personal factor 81
/ largely. that in spite Of his tendenC,
to encourage his fellow man, vii
arouse antagonism. The speech wa
well received and every listener fel
that he got sometime from the grea
I journalist.
The address of Pres. Hicks was
good. business paper.
Judge Ryan's obituary of d.
Follett Of Green Bay, was a fair state
ment Of the enterprising career of al
honest man, and the judges utter
ances made all feel better to know
that though dead, Mr.. Follett We
spoke to the brethren in the interes
of right, of purity, and of editoria
I business capacity.
An unique recitation by Jane
+ Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier poet
wherein he cast tie Old Farmers Phi
4 losophy of the Weather, and Good b,
jim. take care O. ye'self, ia tn
dialect of the eountryman, bringing
out the philosophy of the former an'
the pathos of the latter in ways tia
elected thunders of applause from th'
large audience, and Mr.. Riley had rea
/ difficulty IN withdrawing from thi
I presence that saw great rewer in sim
PIE things when the author renders
4 his own composition. Does the or
binary editor likewise gain a NOR,
sppreciatiye reader by stamping hi: