Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-20

| place to tho busy hum of industry, and
| the press. the harbinger and the herald OF
| improvement everywhere, has flung Us
banner to the breeze on the mountain-side
and IN verdant valleys and the story OF
| enterprise. Improvement, and prosperity
il repeated all over the land. The power
OF the press is felt the agencv OF members
| OF the Virginia Press Association 20 buiid
| cities rs well as fortunes, 20 stir the DOR
| mant energies OF capital, to bring wealth
from the earth and place il in the pockets
OF almost everybody, save the putting and
blowing editor, Is and must be 40,
| mitted. But there's good time
coming, boys" even for him, for when
| the pockets Of capitalists. real estate,
agents. and holders Of options are sur'eit -
and spill over there must be chs nee Tor
him whose BRAIN and wind-power Las sci
the ball in motion.
| PLEASANT TRIP.
| Something over year ago, through the
energy and Jealous efforts of Mr.. Push,
I the president Of this association. who has
| had so much to do with the growing inter
! ests of Roanoke. this body was called 70 a
/ new life. Not soon will any who partlcl-
I pated in the pleasures Of that occasion
| forget the revelations which were made 70
/ US, the busy city, the extensive factories,
/ the wondrous wealth-producing agencies.
and wlthal the generous hospitality we
/ there met Nor yet the route along the
l Shenandoah Valley, amid the glorles OF
/ the Handicapped mountains, 10 the won:
| ders Of the marvellous caves on the site OK
the now growing city Of Shendun.. Mar
/ vellOus indeed have been the changes
which one short year has produced; i'm
| provements part of which at least some
/ of the mem bers Of this association may say
/ we are. But the history of this association
/ would be most incomplete did omit an
/ other and most important contingent.
allude 10 the ladies who constitute our
better half, whose sunny smiles, graceful
beauty. aud helpful sympathy inspire
some Of the brightest thoughts and nerve
/ the sturdiest effort Of tho toiling pen. All
/ honor 10 the ladies Of Virginia! the wives,
/ the sisters, the cousins, and the sweet
/ heats Of the members OF the Virginia Press
/ Association
THE NEWSPAPERS OF RICHMOND.
/ To-day we meet in the metropolitan city
| Of the State Every member Of this assO-
/ citation gl0ries in the prosperity Of this
growing city It's press compares fayOra-
/ by with that Of any III all this wide land.
| One Of its leading journals has won fore
/ most place among the newspapers of the
/ dav and its columns are always filled with
I neatness and Dispatch. Another, more r.
| cent in the field bids far to rival its elder
I brother, and ITS brilliant, glowing columns
+ daily present Us with "A glowing picture
| Of these stirring Times. II the quondam
/ editor Of the evening journal i not now
/ seated in the gubernatOrial char II IS not
+ because he has not done valiant service IN
! the cause OF the State. 4 more recent,
/ pushing. hustllng recruit, representative
OF the twin cities Of Richmond and Man
/ chester. has done and u still do
| ing valiant service as a stalwart
/ Democrat. The Press ASSOCIATION OF
! Virginia halls each and all. MAY the
I bonds which unite the-clty and country
( become yet more firmly cemented, a hand
| in hand we labor for the common veal I;
/ and not only uphold the ancient prestige
/ of Virginia, but add material strength to
/ her greatness IN the glowing future. But
! recently there were assembled IN tins city
! representatives Of the religious thought and
material progress OF the State. To-day there
are assembled those who give expression to
/ that thought and without whose and oil
/ material development IS vain. or the
/ power Of the press no words are necessary.
] The Virginia Press Association, glorious
F.. in the history of the past, holding stu the
[ detestation Of tyrants which the seal of
. the Commonwealth 50 wildly depicts,
! with "A metropolitan contingent whose
! 1ealty TO the interests of the craft and the
| common veal no thought can question,
/ and its hundreds Of busy, dauntlcss work
| ers amid all the hills and valleys, the
/ cities and the villages of this grand old
/ State. turns It's eyes 10 the future and bids
I all hail. TO the advancing thought, the
/ awaking energies, and the developing in
terests of the present.
ESSENTIAL NO EVERY business.
| With the increasing facilities of the
! press there is tendency in these modern
! DAVIS 10 limit the range of newspaper eff
/ tort. / do not ailude TO the subdivision
I e 1.l tnngn
I the business manager, the editor IN chief,
| the local editor, the fighting editor, the
! literary editor. and reporters III their VA
! riOus departments each have their dis
/ tinct functions and duties. which division
| of labor j. a necessity IA every well-Iegu-
| lated daily Office. What allude TO Is the
| establishment of organs for specific inter-
ests, crafts, parties, and combines, and |
! an told that not only large railroad and
| manufacturing corporations have each
| their own press as well as ice-machlnes, but
I an army press and few fonts OF type
| are essential to the OUTFIT OF every buSines =
| man as well as LAWYERS Thus Tar DIR. J al
mage has been able to make use of the
! general or patent press OF the country. To
an old fogy like your historian all this may
( seem like an undesirable innovation; but 1t
illustrates the widespread influence of the
! press. whatever 1t may mean Tor the ma
! terial interests Of the members OF TINS as
! sOclaton.
| NOT MERE MERCKNARY MOTIVES.
But | would not leave the impression
that newspapers are made or editors labor
| under the pressure Of mere morC0nary mo-
| tiyes. They are leadersin the great march
of Improvement. They give voice TO the
progress Of thought-the thunder OF ma
| chiuery-the power OF the lightning
/ flash. Pro bono pif5icO is with them no I'm
1 meaning motto 1t has been SAID that a
stating of a newspaper is a sure relief for
plethora of pOcket-hoOk; but whether
| this b. true or not those who have tired
/ the experiment can best determine for
themselves one thing Il certain: That
the great object Is the furtherance Of glO-
nous ends the development Of vast re-
/ sources the accomplishment OF magnil-
cent results. Ii Is sad that great occa-
sions or peculiar eXigencies call forth great
leaders but il Is the mission OF the press
| TO make occasions, 10 create boOms,
and TO build fortunes fortunes which
| only occasionally fall into the lap Of the
toiling editor Politicians have talked
about "a tariff with incidental protec-
ton" May we not hope that there
good time coming. boys for the man WLo
supplies the brain and wlnc-power Tor all
these rooms, and when the pockets of
capitalists holders OF options and real es-
tate agents. shall spq over, the man who
set the bali in motion may incidentally
share some of the profits?
BE that as It may, the Virginia Press As
ISOLATION pledges an unwayerlng hdellty To
every effort for improvement, tried and
dauntless courage in defence of what Is
right and hearty detestation of what Is
servlle and wrong. With courageous
hopelulness would weaddress ourselves to
the responsibilities of the hour, and aid
with more efficient zeal every effort for
the benefit of society, the enlargement of
thought, and the advancement OF every
material interest.
GLORIOUS MISSION.
The humblest worker in this widespread
field has q glorious mission and a mighty
power. May the pages that shall bear the
future history of this association be bright,
elevated thought, with patriotism that
scorns all sectionalism, with an unselhsh
devotion 10 the interests of good govern
ments, equal rights, free speech, and ad
vancing civilization. Then will the Vir.
ciuia Press Association have glorious his.
tory, rejecting the glowing record of the
past and an earnest of the brightest hopes
and antieipations of the future.
THE COUNTRY EDITOR.