St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-27
WORLD AGAINST THE PRESS.

The newspapers come in for vigorous
abuse from all quarters this morning,
and the GLOBE, with cheerful self-sacri-
fee, gives as much of its space TO Will
flying itself as the pressure of other
matter will allow. If any communica-
tons impugnlng its honesty, any SER
mons attacking its moral tone, or any
interviews convicting it of criminal in
consistency do not appear in this issue,
their authors need not be discouraged.
Their illusions have not been killed,
but have simply been laid over for
day. This will enable the inevitable
retraction or explanation to be pub
liShed in the same paper with the
attack, and at once permit economy of
headlines and add interest to the mat
ter in general.
The kind public will sympathize with
the difficulties of the press as a reflector
of public sentiment when it reads the
structures of the reverend gentleman
who preached at the Goodrich Avenue
Presbyterian church yesterday morning
Oh Sunday Lawlessness." His position
is that If NEHEMIAH were in St Paul he
would find the local dailies in bad wav.
According TO this critic they are all con-
science on their editorial page, but very
uncertain everywhere else on all moral
questions. This is very severe, which
ever way one looks at it. An editorial
page which is all conscience must be
weary reading, and when such a cOndi-
ton of things is found in union with no
morality at all in the rest of its columns,
the effect must be as piebald as circus
horse. The theory of newspaperdom
heretofore has been that journal should
give the news as il existed, and reserve
its criticisms and animadyersions for
the men who write its leaders for a high
salary and atmuch expenditure of nerv-
Gus force. Ii this reverend aasailant is
right, however, the GLOBE will here
after either have to report sermons ex-
cluSively or hunt for some editorial
writers of a lower moral grade. 1t will
do anything this gentleman says, and
hopes that he will cooperate with it as
it earnestly strives for greater moral
harmony.
HENRY NJ. STANLEY, the African ex-
plOrer, is the foreign critic of the press.
lie has had some experience in news
paper work himself, and would be char
liable if he could. But he cannot, be-
cause he has suffered in tender spot.
1t is serious matter to report dis
agreement between a man and his wife
when no such disagreement exists: and
although he wrote his denial in small.
upright hand, the GLOBE prints the
news in the most conspicuous way be-
cause it wants all the world to know it.
Interesting indeed it is to find that not
only man of genius but also woman
of the same ilk, if they love, need not
love unhappily. This is so rare in the
annals of the heart that people presume
as matter of course unions of such
ones shall, like sweet tangled bells,
soon ring all out of tune. Rumors of
domestic infelicities between STANLEY
and DOROTHY TENANT are the pen-
alties they pay for greatness; bat since
he protests over his own signature that
the rumOrs are untrue. and she. apart
from her husband and without fear or
compulsion from any quarter, acknowl-
edges her undated love for him as her
own free and pubIis act and deed. the
whole subject can be allowed to drop.
even though the notary's seal seems to
be omitted from the solemn instrument.
NOT THE VULNERABLE SIDE.
One of the most prominent Repub-