The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1891-04-21
HORACE GREELEY AND TIE
TRIBUNE.

whole pages to description of the sle-
bration of the fifteenth anniversary of
the founding Of the New York TRIBUNE
by HORACE GREELEY. The great success
of the Trlbuae is found in the motive
which prompted is great founder to in
vest his entire capital 81 600 in a new
| paper He did not establish it in order
that he might make fortune by its pub
lication T-dIe vas no field for paper
that had no higher aim. But his pri-
| mary object in its establishment was be-
cause he felt he hnd something to say by
which the world would be- the bet
ter, for his saying it. And he
said it boldly. From the first issue of
the Tribune on April 9th, 184l unit.
death closed his brilliant career. he
made the Tribune the most potent in
fluence in America. GREELEY was the
Tribune and the Tribune was GREELEY.
It breathed his strong personality, and
had feelings, convictions and purposes.
That was before newspapers became
impersonal and before editors and re-
porsers on great papers were only wheels
or cogs in great machine, having no
connection with the public and feeling no
| responsibility for what they wrote. They
were days when men made newspapers
| and newspapers made men. Then when
you read great paper you asked" ho is
the editor 2" There was the magnetism
of personal force about the paper.
To day it is different. Newspapers
| have become so large and their machin-
cry so complex that not one, but hun
dred men are charged with the task of
making it. Papers are greater and bet
ter without doubt, but the individual
ism is gone. Newspapers must have
great capital behind them and too often,
instead of the editors writing his own
week to give elegance and point to the
convictions, born of interest, of the spec
ulative owner of the paper. He writes
for his bread-has no responsibility, and
loses the power which directness and
nearness give.
But if the newspaper has lost its indi
yidualism, it has gained in its variety
and It's enterprise and it is quite as true,
if in less measure, to-day as when HoR-
ACE GREELEY edited the Tribune that the
press is a mighty engine in forging
public opinion. and the greatest OF mod
ern forces The power OF the press is
the measure Of its responsibility. Every
man who is enrolled in the service is
bound in honor by the solemn charge
that G, usecrated the Knights of old. Be
l1.la, be firm, be true"
! 1t was Significant tact that OF ali ths
greatest speeches made at this notable
celebration, HORACE GREELEY was the
theme. His love of and faith in the
people and his championship of human
liberty in all forms furnished the tex
for all the eloquent addresses. Th'
tribune is still a great paper as a me
dium for news and literary topics. l
has bright writer's and its staff is a
abe and bright as money could SO
cure. It is we'll managed and pay
handsomely. It is interesting aud ha
brilliant correspondents in all parts Q
the world Ic is better in every wa,
than in HORACE GREELEY's day except il
one thing: 1t has no conception of tn
heart and breadth which permeated it
columns when his great soul and un
selfish purpose was its inspiration. 1t
now like some great machine, we'll oilet
and in seemingly perfect condition, bu
which is wanting in power. 1t has th
. form Of the old Tribune, but it has not tn
life. The shadow of the old Tribune i
with it. but the substance has loni
since departed. The present Tribun
has put on GREELEY's srmor, but it is s.
narrow and provincial that it rattles a
if dwarf had put on the armor of
giant.
WHEN HORACE GREELEY gave voice t
the types from which the Tribune wa
printed it was the exponent of patriot
ism and broad views. The South didn'
, like what he wrote about slavery but
respected the paper for its boldness N,
GREELEY was a hard fighter, but whe
4 the war was over he believed in lettin
! the past be as sealed book. He ddn
= carry petty hates about him or let hi
paper become the engine of malice an
. persecution. It is sad to think tia
q HORACE GREKLEY's Tribune has degene1
ated into the most bitter political hate
: of the South in existence, and that il
: present prosperity is purchased at th
= price of narrowness and hatred.
SOCIAL EQUALITY.
, The Roanoke News complains bitterl
!, that at the dining room of the At]antl
r Coast Line in Weldon social equality
9 practised, aud says that on one da
a "thirty or forty negroes were placed {
S the same tables with the white peop
; and ate their dinner with them" W
l quote from the Roanoke News:
. "Does the Atlantic Coast Line thin
), it can with impunity ignore the prejr
= dicas, If you will, of the white peopl
:. and obliterate instincts implanted by th
Almighty himself in their breasts? Doe
the Atlantic Coast line thipk> IL c&n rid
: | rough snOO OVe< ~&Qeae IuS4ACtS WAlc
have resisted tha, influences of ages an
the operations of partisan powerf If s
the Atlantic Coast Line over-estimate
. Is power"
! Negroes ought to have just as goo
apartments, just as good fare and jus
= as good service for the same money q
white people, but for every reason th
!, two races should be kept separate an
distinct, and nobody recognizes thi
more clearly than does the negro"