Telegram-herald., 1889-05-10
THEY ARE MADE GREAT.
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men are Advertised.
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thing and every thing. frofsl zmbrosia ID
dlrt. froas genius - eccenrrtcity. Il dlf-
fsrs u races aud among peopies. The
o3As poison may he the S4xon's food,
and the American may grow famous oa
thas which would but biad the BFitisher
still more securely ia the chains - OBJ
scurity America teens with famous
men. Railway trains, steamers, hotels,
streets are full OF them. Ia I'D other
country are there - many well known"
men- men whose names, spoken or
printed, are recognized as familiar by
majority Of hearers or rea1ers-a as IN this
blessed republc. Perhaps II would be
sheer conceit 70 say We have 50 many
more really great men than England,
France or Germany. Ia point Of fact
don't believe we have half as many, bat
VIC become better acquainted with our
notable men, and We note men for
smaller reason. This is Il fraternal. com
paIlioaable people Few arbitrary bar
riers are erected between classes.
Our great statesmen, great law
yers. great railrOaders, great puq-
lists, great inventors, great journal
i5ts, great gamblers, great wits, great
orators. great baseball players. great
millionaires. great actors, great poll
ticians. great horse trainers, great mer-
chants hobnob together ike brothers.
And we are, too, such travellers that the
Californian is almost IS well known In
New York Is the New Yorker. Men
from all the hooks and crannies Of the
land are constantly meeting and com
mingling in business. politics, office seek
Ing. summer resOrting. conventions OF a
thousand kinds, anniversary gatherings
such as the presidential Inauguration and
the Washington centennial
But more than all We are a nation Of
gossipS. We talk more about men than
things And-the secret of it all-our
newspapers are greater gossips than we
are. They so deity mix their news and
| their gossip that you can't tell one from
the other. You don't wish to- Only, if
You stop TO think about il az all, you are
/ likely 10 realize that the gossip is the
/ best part of the feast. Without the gos-
sip. news is like pudding unsauced. If
really hungry for substantials you could
eat your bread minus butter, but you
| prefer the butter, and plenty Of it.
IL Is the newspaper that makes our
| great men. 1t is the newspaper that
scans hotel registers, sets Argus eyed OBJ
| servers in hotel rotundas; i. is the news
! paper that makes the name of Col. Slap
dash, Of Texas, we'll known in Boston,
and the name of Judge Goodboy, of New
/ York, like unto household word in the
states of tho Mississippi valley or the
| Pacific coast. The English newspaper
doee not gossip, except in the most linn
ited and frozen fashion. The French
/ newspaper does not gossip, except about
actresses, Boulanger, and the three or
four conspicuous figures momentarily
before the public eye. The German
newspapers never heard Of such thing
as gossip, and doubt if their language
contains synonym for the word.
In this country the man who does or
becomes anything a little out of the
| common run is introduced 10 the public
in detail-as boy, collegiate, early strug-
| gler for distinction, winner of fame or
/ success. We are told how many girls
| he courted before he married, what
/ clothes he wears, what he eats, what
sort Of neckties he likes. His wife and
children are introduced along with him,
I and a good many Of his other relatives
| All the newspapers gossip, and then
| swap gossip. and thus the new man be-
/ fore the public eve, or the new woman,
/ becomes rs we'll known to the whole
| American people as if our country were
/ q suburban nsighborhOod and we had a
new settleJ with his washing out on the
| line and the first calls made By all our
/ good but in4uisitive and Observing
+ wives.
Nor IS this all We have developed an
amazing fondness for printing mems
! pictures. and for calling men by their
/ baptismal appellations or their nick
7 MINES. Thus we have Jim Blaine,
Bob" Ingersoll, "Tecump' Sherman.
"Mat" Quay. Charley" Farwell. Tom
| Bowen, sam" Cox. joe Cannon.
Tom" Reed, Chance" Depew, "Uncle
/ John" Sherman, "Grandfather" Payne
I aud many others, just as we used to
I have Andy" Johnson, "Chet" Arthur.
Jack" Logan and "Abe" Lincoln. All
these are aids 70 the memory and pro
moters Of familiarity. Going still further
w are prone 10 make men great for lit
tie things. In making i-sfamous persons
gossip uses a wonderful variety of ma
/ tsrials. This man is known the country
over FOR his old hat. another for his era
vat. 4 third because he a in lovo with an
actress. a fourth because he killed
another man. fifth for his funny
stories. and q man may gain fame a: one
fell srvoop by a single remark. Ike Flan-
uazan's What ara We here for
There are centers Of commerce, manu-
featuring. learning. railroads, culture,
horse breeding. natural gas. literature
and other ma terialand inmaterial things,
but Washington IA the center q gossip.
In other places -ossip IL an amusement
here it Is \ business. And It IA here The
methods. trends ard influence Of the
national Characteristic e gossiping are
best stulied. Here Is IL seen as On q
h0usctop how 1ssip makes public mar
more widely known for lis personal
traits or rcoccntricitias than f0g his genius
or ststesrnarship. how gossip gives fame
or a- le3st IFS common eQuivaleut, noto-
rietv. g. ucu who have no other claim
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