The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-08-07

! they would mi be guilty of dom;
so. Laughter. II is also a cit,
of great historic inieresl-il is tn,
home of The only, original and IRE
presSible "Pat Donan," and in it,
great present and greater future
is 10 the soulh what ST. Paul Is t(
the great northwest. [Cheers.
But to my subject. The memory
of tire many good points in Col
Hoyl's address will longer lingel
with me like the fragrance of Hoyt'.
cologne tlanehter, and | only
wish that The huency of speech
possessed by some of my good
brothers were mine that | might
discuss the subject as
ABLY AS IT DESERVES.
The duty of the newspaper has
never been mole clearly or perhaps
more correctly defined than by
Horace Greeley, who said that il
was 80 give tie history of lis time
and afterwards deduce from it
theories and truths of universal ap.
pllcation.n
In this electrical age the country
weekly is necessarily dependent in
4 large measure upon The metro
politan daily for its news; but il
should not for its views. Zap
plause. Indeed, no man should
essay The role OF editor ofthe hum
blest journal unless he possess the
mind 10 think, The courage 10 act
Whenever and wherever right
needs a champion or truth a de-
fender. [Applause].
In lis very nature The press is
peculiarly a public institution; il is
ever busy in The work of building
up or tearing down. From this pc.
culiar nature it labors constantly
and without direct compensation
for church, for party, for state and
society at large, and every indiYid.
nal member of those organizations
becomes necessarily an incidental
beneficiary of lis labors.
The publisher should recognize
the fact that his space and labor
are TO him precisely what -four,
sugar and dry goods are to The mer-
chant-they are his stock in trade
he is dependent upon their sale
for his own livelihood and the
maintenance of his business.
The management and supervis.
ion OF every newspaper should be
vested entirely III one individual.
1t was SAID by
THAT TYPICAL AMERICAN,
Abraham Lincoln, applause-
and sir, ! never speak his great
name without the highest admira.
ton Tor his lofty qualities of mind
and noble virtues of heart, rr.
plause Tor as a man his nature
was sweet as summer 10 his fellow
man, and as a citizen and >taies.
mar his ambitions for his country
were as lofty as Nit. Washington,
while his character was a pure as
The sno VS. that fall upon lis sum
nit [p%erlonged applause ii was
said by him that one bad general
was worth two good ones when al
cross purposes. Aud the remark
is possessed of ~forceiul truth when
applied to the battlefield Of the
press.
A paper should lie kept finan.
independent that it might be
entirely so editorially.
Mr.. Martin then advocated in
vigorous language the absolute di-
vorce of advertisements and read.
ing matter; The adoption Of The
cash system; the use of the best
material, the employment of The
best workmen, ETC., etc, and said
that instead of describing a model
weekly in detail, As Col. Hoyt had
done, he could accomplish the pur
pose equally as well, by submitting
copy of his own paper, The Ms
which he did, asking that
it be filed with his remarks, marked
A." which was greeted
with generous laughter. He closed
with an
ELOQUENT PERoRATIoN
in these words:
Since the emancipation of the
press its good deeds in behalf of
truth aid oppressed humanity truly
shine down The vistas of history
like diamonds hung on the rosary
Of years.
Archimedes sighed for a lever
and fulcrum that he might move
the world. Had he lived in the
generation of today he need not
have sighed in vain. Manklnd's
intelligence and inherent love of
truth would have furnished him a
fulcrum, while his lever would
have been found in the enlight
ened, libeIty-loviDg and God.fear-
ing press ofthe nineteenth century,
which, daily diffusing the rays of
truth and knowledge unto all the
quarters of The earth, is respected
of all nations and blessed of all
men. Applause.
Engraved upon The statue of that
kingliest of Georgians, Benjamin
Hill, are TO be found these glow
ing words OF patriotism: "He who
lets his country die lets all things
die, and all things dying curse him.
uha cax,oc HI. onn,trx, e.yae al