Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-03-02
Governor Murrhy,s Address.

Governor Murphy's Address.
 At the recent meeting of the Ter
 ritorial Press association in Phenix,
 Acting Governor Murphy delivered
 q very eloquent address. Lack of space forbids its publication in full
 but we quote from 1t the following:
 It is not my purpose to try your
 patience with an extended address
 tonight. nor shall I coufne the few
 words I say to any specific subject,
 but I shall refer generally to the
 noble profession of which you are
 the representative opponents m Arl-
 zona, and to matters of common in
 terest to our territory.
 Ii would be the veriest presump-
 ton on my part toeven attempt any
 thing instructive. descriptive or
 eulogistic of the press. The subject
 is as wide as the scope of humanity.
 and has been an ninexhaustible theme
 for the poets and orators since print
 ing took its place in civilization. All
 over our great country, and Tn fact
 throughout the world, every year
 your associations meet and discuss
 the interests of your profession. The
 ablest living men are present at these
 meetings and exchange ideas, and
 consequently nothing is left proper
 for me to say that you do not all
 know. nor anything that is new to
 the reading public.
 It is a great deal like delivering
 fourth of July oration; it is the same
 old subject, grand and patriotic, but with sys sss<---9.lte dearth of new ideas with which to clothe it. Newspa- per men are great people, warriors Tn a noble cause. whose province 1t is to roll back the dark pail of ignor- ance, superstition and oppression that envelopes unenlightened eoun- tries.
 At the entrance to New York har Dor fguratively speaking, stands Liberty enlighteuing the world. A common printing press suitably mounted would, ill my judgment, more properly sympolize the senti- ment of liberty and enlightenment. What enlightening agency is there more potentl
 Everywhere, marching in the van of civilization you find the journal ist. In politics, religion, commerce and science he is always found keep ing pace with the progress of man. Newspaper men fill our libraries, public and private, with luxuries for the brain; they enable us to hear daily from far off famine suffering Russia, war-like Chile and every part of the civilized world where the labor of man is a factor in the evolu- ton of nature. What would We do without them! Think for "a moment how We would feel if the great voice of the press were silent for one month.
 While the power of this mighty | engine of civilization is immeasur- able for good, if abused, its power to work evil is comparatively as great, and in the hands of interruptions | agents can work untold suffering. Words of holy inspiration, directing good and noble deeds for the moral elevation of humanity and conducive of human happiness may be scattered side by side with seeds of venomous scandal and vindictive shafts of malice, working grief and pain to thousands. In the heart of political strife or professional rivalry men are often too aggressive and unforgiving towards each other-but the press has thousand fold power to pun ish. if not reward. In this great country of free speech. abuses are liable to creep in. Newspaper men are all human, and, as in all pro- fessions, some possess a little more of the milk of "cussedness" than others, and right here is where the curse of so-called personal journal ism lifts up its dydra head. Sensa- tional, scandal -pe3dling, malicious, untruthful journalism, doled out in doses to feed the morbid tastes of diseased imaginations and to all that is evil in human nature.
 Such journalism only merits the and scorn of every honest man. Sitting in the editorial sane tum, originating new ideas or re- dressing old ones, and feeling that your words, inspired or profane. have the power to reach thousands. per haps millions, of your fellow men, and glorying in the enthusiasm born Of your grand profession; aspiring to give birth to precepts that shall benefit the world while time endures. md so indelibly inscribing on the scroll of time the record of human progress. It seems that you must nearly reach the acme of human ex- iltation.
 On the other hand, personal jour laiism. did 1t ever occur to you that yhen you strike an enemy through he columns of your paper, unless Ie, too. is possessed of similar facil- ties with which to strike back, if the natter between you be purely per onal, and unless your words are en- irely free from the venom of malice, hat 1t k very much like an aggra- ated case of kicking man when le :s down, helpless and undefended
 a tllnS that no brave man will do. "nr blows number as many thous- { lnds as you print papers. You pun ! sh and humiiiatc your opponent , trough tine injured feelings of dis ; ant friends and near neighbors.
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 Attracts the attention of every prop rty holder in this city. But when , pr. Franklin Miles, the eminent In Ata