Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-05-27
The Eeportcr.

Last Sunday evening DR. Frank
Gunsaulus, pastor OF the Plymouth
Congregational church of Chicago,
invited the National Editorial asso
citation to his church and then had
the exceeding bad taste to deliber-
atelv and not without due meditation
offer a gross insult to one OF the
hardest working, most conscientious
branches of the profession that has
made him and other men of note all
that they are. The Chicago Evening
Post commenting on the preachers
TRADE says editorially:
Since every man in America Tex
cept he be an editor) knows how to
run newspaper we must not find
fault with Rev. Frank Gunsaulus for
talking shop to the members of the
National Editorial association who
accepted his invitation to Plymouth
CONGREGATIONAL church last night.
1t is the indefeasible right of every
American citizen to instruct the
newspaper editor in the business OF
editing. Far be it from us to deny
that right to the admirable young
Mr.. Gunsaulus. His discourse may
have contributed nothing to the wis
dom or gavety of the nations; it may
have been the thoughtless chaff OF an
uninstructed amateur. but, such :
it was, it was an utterance which MIR.
Gunsaulus had a right to deliver. &C
cordinC to the law that everybody's
business is the editors and the edi-
tors business is everybody else's.
But we take DR.. Gunsaulus to task
for his thoughtless, cruel and un-
= truthful observations on the class of
workers known as reporters. We
impeach this parson of high crime
against truth and Justice for these
words. which we find in the report of
his sermon:
But the editors are not entirely to
blame if lies are published. They
are sometimes led astray by reporters
who spend their days and nights in
dens of vice, who are debauchers OF
the worst kind, who hover above the
putrefvinr carcass of truth and then
pander to iniquity by deliberately
falsifying news they are ordered to
ret. Reporters are to blame for
many of these things that destroy
the manly tone of newspaper
This is mere Numbering calumny
and SLAM ter There are reporters
who answer this description, just as
there are preachers who 90 astray,
false shepherds who debauch their
flocks, but in one case as in the 9TH
er, the black sheep are not the whole
flock. The debauched, INSCRIPTIONS
reporter and the debauched preacher
One is As good standing in his pro-
fessoin as the other.
Here are some facts about the news
paper reporter which we commend to
DR.. Gunsaulus' attention: The gen
tleman Tor LADY, who gathers news
for the DOCTORS edification is /, so
Der; = Industrious; 3, intelligent.
He or she must be all these to hold
the place. The days of the old Bo-
hemian regime are past and gone.
There is no place in the newspaper
ranks for the drunkard, the libertine,
the ignoramus, the blackmailer.
n sober, industrious, honest intelli-
gent, the newspaper reporter must
be- More he or she may be and
often is. He or she may be brilliant,
highly educated. chivalrous, refined,
inspired by lofty ideals. Why, we
will take hundred Chicago report
! ers and set them against hundred
Chicago clergymen and ask DIR. Gun
saulus himself to say which is the
finer body of men and women.
Neither will be perfect. but among
Therapeutics of the press we prom
Use DIR. Gunsaulus he viii find as
many graduates of colleges, as many
men and women of thought and read
ing, as many whose daily toil-ardu-