The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-08-22

on an editor than on his feHow-citi-
zens generally You might para
phrase Falstaf and say: GAS I have
more power than another man I
have more frailty." Frailty is COM
mensurate with temptation. Let no
man boast until he has undergone
the pressure. AS Burns says: Co.
whats done we partly may compute,
We know not what's resisted"
You have generally improved of
late years. There is a higher tone
among you.
When you are able to praise a po-
lltical opponent, who deserves
praise, as fully and freely as you do
one of your own party; when you
are able to condemn one of your
friends, who is false to the people,
as vehemently as you do your enc
mics, then indeed will the communi-
ty look to you as absolute guides
and leaders, and your influence for
good will be simply incalculable; for
you will speak like Deity, with the
voice of absolute justice.
Whenever the political parties un-
derstand there are limits to the en-
durance of the journalists, which
they cannot safely approach, and
that wrong-doing in the party means
revolt in the press, they will frame
their platforms and construct their
tickets out of the very best material
they can command. But if poilti-
cal party believes that it has, in it's
editors, band of INSCRIPTIONS hire
lings, ready to
"Distort the truth, accumulate the lie,
And pile the pyramid Of calumny;''
and that they cannot make any dose
SO strong but that they will cheer
fully swallow it, then, indeed is evil
rampant and the Republic in danger.
Your power in fashioning the fu.
ture is simply incalculable. Every
man of you should rise to the dig
nifty Of his opportunities.
The clergy deal in dogmas and
the moralities of life; but the editors
are the real leaders Of men, who Gre
ate those views, opinions and habits
of thought, which in turn modify the
religious beliefs and the morals prac-
tees. An universal attack, by all
the newspapers in America. would in
FIVE years, close up nine tenths of
the churches of this country. You
have possession of the thinking pro-
cesses of the age; you enter into the
very recesses of the soul, where
thought dwells. Bacon says: "a
man is what he knows We might
add a man is what he thinks. Phys
iologically he is but a bag of mi
crobe-infested fluids held in by
skeleton: and but for the light in his
brain brother of the mud-puddle.
It is the thought faculty that is di-
vine. In this he is made in the i'm
age of God When he thinks the
same processes are at work that
made the start What higher func-
ton is there than to feed and trim
this burning fame of the soul, and
help men to arrive at just conclu-
siOns?
And what an arena have you to
work upon?
What region of the earth's surface
can be compared to this high table
land of the continent of America
this Notwithstanding Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, Iowa and the two
Dakotas? Where is there such fer
tility? The valley of the Nile might
be slowed away in one of our coun-
ties. Where is there such an at
mosphere? The very breath of God,
blowing fresh from the centers of
creation.
The historian of the future will
show that the great events of the
earth's history; its marches, battles,
emigrations, literature, civilizations,
were all dependent on the presence
or absence of those invisible forms
of life, the parents of disease, the
bacteria. The Southern rebellion
was simply an outburst of diseased
livers. Rome fell from malaria
The conquering hordes of the North
conquered because they came from
country too cold to maintain the
bacilli. Cast birds-eye view over
the world and you will find that the
insignificance and Importance of
man is in exact proportion to the
abundance of those swarming, but
invisible forms of life. You read the
secret of the important part that
England has played in the history of
the world in the fact that thousands
dwell every year in boat houses up.
on the Thames river, untouched by
malaria.
Their evil influences withdrawn,
there was evolved great-brained,
big chested, rosy-cheeked race, that
has expanded to all parts of the
world, and that will maintain it's SUI
premacy in other lands until the mi
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