The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-01-22
THE COMING OF THE NATIONAL
EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION.

THE COMING OF THE NATIONAL
EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION.
A special dispatch to the RECORD
UNION from Cincinnati announced on
Thursday that the next session of the
National Editorial Association has been
fixed to begin on the 18th of May, 1892,
in San Francisco.
The importance to California of this
simple item of news may not be fully ap-
preciated without some words of ex-
PLANTATION. The National Editorial Asso-
citation is representative almost wholly of
rural journalism. Metropolitan journal
ism has very little voice in it. The asso-
citation stands for the proprietorship and
brains of the best there is in American
journalism, to the practical exclusion
of the journalism of mere money and of
the metropolitan phases of newspaper
work, which are chargeable with about all
there is vicious and humiliating in the
business and profession.
In short, the National Association
stands for the real journalists of the
country; men who are not under the
"blue pencil" and who retain their indie
pendence and are in close touch with the
masses of the people.
The publishers, editors and writers
upon newspapers in the lesser commune
ties of the Union more nearly than any
others are in communion with the body
of the people. They reflect the local
and individual sentiment in the several
sections that in aggregation make up
what we term public opinion. They are
intimately known in their individual es-
tates TO their communities their charac-
tiers, aims, purposes and methods are
bare to public view, and maintenance of
their positions is wholly dependent upon
their faithfulness to their communities
and the respect they command from
them. 1t is the rule, in seven cases out
of ten with the rural newspaper, that
merit determines the measure of it's sue
cess-not the mere success of money get
ting, but that greater success which is
framed in the confidence and esteem of a
reputable clientage and in achievement
in building up a section.
Now the coming to California of such a
body of men and women, from nearly
all the States of the Union, is an event of
infinitely greater magnitude to California
than the gathering within our borders of
Knights Templar in triennial conclave,
of the Grand Army of the Republic, of
educational associations or political con-
ventions, and for reasons that are so OBJ
vious that they will not be further ad-
verted to.
The coming, then, of this body of work
ing journalists from town, city and
country Of the whole Union gives Cali
fornis an opportunity to be advertised to
the people of the United States such as
she has never before enjoyed. Through
the medium of these thoughtful, observ-
ant and straightforward minds. Cali
fornia will reach those Throughout the
Nation most likely to seek residence
among US and to reinforce our capital,
and thus augment our population de-
sirably and wholesomely enlarge our
material wealth.
What is now wanted is not grand ban
quets, carriage drives, midnight revels.
dress parades, low necks and short
sleeves, the slobber of empty platitudes
and the gush of hollow compliments, but
such generous, manly, sober and in
structive entertainment and unostenta-
tious hospitality, as will be acceptable to
right minded, right-living, right-think-
ing, observant and level-headed men and
women, who know what it is to found
communities, conquer waste places, build
States, preserve the landmarks of patriot
ism and stand fast by the temperate.
strengthening and tried institutions Of
the best American civilization.
To get out of the groove of past meth
DDS of reception into better atmosphere,
arrange for the coming of the real jour
nalists of the land as arrangement should
be, is a task of no small character, and
no light achievement. The work is to
devolve upon the country journalists Of
California, the membership of the Cali
fornia Press Association and of the South
ern California Editorial Association. But
they are equal to it; we have confidence
in their clear comprehension of what
should be done. They did not, we APP
prehend, invite the national body with
out thought and clear foresight They
are not of the junketing order of men and
women; their lives are devoted to hard
labor, and in the main to ill-requited
labor; but they are deeply, earnestly de-
voted to the State. They are first for the
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