Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-03-01
SATURDAY NIGHT soLrLooUIEs


THE JoUENAL does not expect to
be an ordidary newspgper;that place
In we'll filed. Tie ordinary news
paper is published for the well-to-do'
the intelligent, The upper elements
socially, the higher grades ethically.
the elite religiously, the people who
are pretty well elevated and salts
fed. We aspire to give those peo-
pie something TO think about, good
reading, the news. But we aspire
TO print paper for something more
than merely TO crafty those for
whom our civilization has done It's
best. We would reach those, aud the
EVENING 30, EMAIL Is already reach
ing such families by the hundreds,
who are still desirOus Of some
improvement, those who are not
yet on the top rounds Of the ladder,
those who may suspect they have
yet some climbing to do in their life
work, those who would expand In
all directions. If we cannot print
paper that shall help to elevate the
masses to right-thinking, right-do-
ing, nobler efforts, higher life, the
capacity for brighter future, we
might as we'll have picked rags
from the gutter as have published
newspaper.
THE JOURNAL followed its pony
carrier to one OF the lowlier
homes last night. The sun was
below the hills ms he threw paper
against the door of laborer's plain
cottage. A finxen.headed little fell
low, with cheeks whose crimson
glowed through the soil and mil
Of an afternoon playspell, came to
the door and picked up the paper
to carry II within. Half dozen
pairs Of eyes peered through the
windows at the shaggy pony. A
still smaller boy was In the convul-
sions of hearty uproarlous laughter
within. His ringing, Growing hi
larity filled the evening air, rang
across the street and told pas
serby "Where such clarion voice
rings out heaven II not far away"
II Is toward such as these, aud In
entering such homes as these, that
II newspaper assumes its greatest re-
sponslbility. The well-to'do, the
cultured, the refined, they are able
to care for themselves. But, what
Of the masses yet to come upon the
threshold OF our nation? What can
newspaper DO for them? Where
father, mother and older children
read its every word daily, what
mission of enlightenment, Of uplift-
Ing, of hopefulness, does II bear TO
them?
Ifit be possible to extend helping
hand In the battle Of life, we would
extend II. We would not extend II
alone TO the self-raised, to the strong
only, tho the strongest at times
need help. Unless our Influence In
life can be spent ut least In part for
those who are down-trodden, who
are on the under side In the fight
for existence, IL would have been as
we'll had we not lived In II position
of influence. If we are Ia still
further depress and crush our needy
brother, II were better We had never
existed.
So the JOURNAL would 20 In
friendly confidence and sympathy
20 those II can help, 1t would
brighten the homes of all, but es-
peclally the tireslles OF the humble
aud unpretentlous. II would carry
60 them the faith In higher life
aud u firm devotion to the true inter.
eats of humanity. We believe In
full In humanity's higher powers.
One expression OF the bible, II you
have mlth as a grain ot mustard
you can move mountains, has been
the sub cot Of much speculation In
the pa puts, IL has been questioned
IL this Is not power that mankind
once possessed hut has now lost.
Be this as IL may, there are other
powers OF the human heart aud
mind that aro 80 sweetly powerful
aud uplifting 10 the downcast, that
we should make more OF them, We
neglect toO much the power of hu.
man sympathy. In many OF us IL
Lies as u dormant power mighty