The Progress., 1893-01-28

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/ purity and happiness IN the marital world
IS thing Of the past. Take up youI
/ paper after Sullivan and Corbett have a
! prize fight, and yOu would think thl
| whole universe was down at New Or
leans. The paper is flied with cuts ard
displays Of Mr. Corbett and Mr. Sullivan
and Of the great unknown men VINO fol
lowed them theEe.
Anything to sell the paper IS tie motto
today, according to the statement tnat
this editor has made Out Of the heart
Of you Or your ncighbor or friend h.
would take the coloring matter for .
headline, and he would cut your heart
open TO drag out its secret if by paral-
ing it he c@lld sell 100 extra copies.
hawking them on the streets That is
the principle by which dollars and cents
are to be drained III and your best inter
ests betrayed. He whom Jesus took into
his inmost circle went TO the priests and
said, Il will deliver him to you for So
much and they weighed unto him thir.
ty pieces of silver, and he sought at once
how he might betray him. So it is a
sad fact today.
was struck when l first came TO the
metropolis with the magnificent generos-
ity of these great exponents of power.
| was amazed at our great charity fakes
"a fund for this and that-but the real
fund l found was to sell the paper and
to exploit in the process of charity their
own wares. II ever day was in the
history of the world when wolves walked
in sleeps clothing, it is now, when these
incarnations of a lie walk through the
streets and ask for charity that they
may brag about the amount they have
given.
Some time ago, when the city was
threatened with cholera, we had chol-
era sensation. They wrote it up, col
umn after column. The whole bay was
full of tugs, you would imagine. But
suddenly there came an awful collapse
of cholera news. There was no cholera
in town, never had been any; there was
no danger. Do you know what hap
pened? Why, the merchants who had
their big ads. running put their heads
together and sent word to these offices,
If you have anything more to say
about this cholera scare, no more ad-
vertisements." And the next day the
whole cholera scare collapsed. There
was no cholera in the bay, none in the
city, and they swore by heaven and
earth there was no cholera in the city
for ten days after men had died with il
In the first place they drove commerce
from the city for the sake of selling their /
paper, and in the second place they lied |
when they knew the cholera was in the |
city that they might deceive you and so
keep the advertisements in their col !
umns. They sold their solemn trust to
Almighty God for thirty piecesof silver
as basely and infamously as ever Judas |
Iscariot sold his master for silver in the |
past.
VILE ADVERTISEMENTS.
Today this same power is governed by |
the money that shall come in through |
the exchequer. There are theaters SO |
called, dives really. now in this city
that are run in defiance of law. There |
IS one on this very street whose charac-
Ter is notorious, and yet there is not a
newspaper in New York that will not |
insert its internal advertisement and
send it into your homes; that will not
send men there to write up its perform
lnces and not say a word about the
levilish character of the whole institu-
ion, because that establishment pays
400 or $500 a week for advertising.
When a conscientious man goes from
)ne of these papers to such a place to
write conscientiously what he has seen
md knows, the managing editor, who is
paid $3.50 week to keep honest opinions
'ut of the paper, reads it and puts it into
he wastebasket and sends little sap
lead to report it again. They have sold
or thirty pieces of silver their sacred
md solemn trust to Almighty God.
Third-The press should not only be
! true reflex of life, but molder and
ashioner of true life and opinion. The
work of the lung is to give health, not
leath; veal, not woe. 1t is to send
our blood back purified and cleansed.
The power of the press to do this is
natchless. l envy the power of those
evolving cylinders. There is no power
n modern times so awful in its sweep as
hat power with one hand on the electric
elegraph, with the other on the light
ing express. 1t has brought the whole
world into a great whispering gallery
nd made it possible for one man to
peak to the human race. and speak with
Ower.
What power the French press hs1
uring the Panama transactions if they
ad only utilized it! Now the French
overnment is tottering on the very
rink Of ruin because it is brought out
hat every one of those great papers was
ought outright by advertisements prt
n them and made it possible for th,
rojectors of that Panama canal to float .
A Paris $500, O,O0O, 600 worth of bonds '
nd send $50, ,O0e, 900 to Panama until it ,
ollapsed. If there had been men in {
hose pressreoms conscious of their re- |
knowing their power and
yilling to use il. France ,niyht h.ya