The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-04-18
A CENTURY OF CHANGE.
What the Gentle Reader Nav
Hope for in 100 Years.
THE GROWTH OF SPECIALTIES.
Judge D~itfenhoefer Thinks 1t Will Extend
to the Legal Profession-JOseph Howard,
Dr.. Expects No Radical Change in Jour-
nalism senator Voorhees, Prophecy.
The Future of Inland Navigation.

Jr.. Expects No Radical Change in Jour-
nalism senator voorhees, Prophecy.
The Future of Inland Navigation.
Copyright, 1885, by American Press Associa-
tion.l
In response to an interviewer President
Cleveland once said: "Oh, you saw that in
such and such a newspaper. You might
have known it wasn't true
On the same day Thomas Byrnes, super-
intendent of police in New York city, re-
plying aauestion. said: You might have
known that wasn't true. You saw it in
the newspapers. Whenever you see any
thing published about me or my affairs you
may take it for granted it is untrue"
Asa practical new -paper writer | natural
~ regard VIII inter.est interest every phase
of rheumatism. good and bad. Contemplating
possible changes IN this greatest of profess
slons made between now and 1893. | natu-
rally examine the data at hand in order
that ! may i~ntelligently attempt a fore
cast. Some little time since an esteemed
coworker in the realm of art, William j.
LeMoyne. sent me two tiny volumes writ
ten by Samuel Patterson in 1853 and pul.
lished for him by Joseph johnson in ire.
They are called 'Joineriana, or the Book OF
taN1 10 > DA
divers topics, one of which is entitled
News and News Writers"
1t Brother PatterSon's photograph of the
newspapers a hundred years ago is at all
accurate. the one and only change in the
line OF Improvement which distinguishes
the newspaper press of 1892 from those of a
century earlier is in the advanced mechan-
lcal facilities at the service of publishers.
They then worked the humble and awk-
ward hand press.
Today we have mechanisms so marvel
Gus in their ingenious complication and so
simple withal that the ordinary mind stands
confused by the output and embarrassed in
It's vain endeavor to comprehend the why
and the wherefore. 1t must be remem-
bered that of every 100. 900 readers at least
$1,000 never saw a modern printing press at
work.
The grandeur of a pressroom is beyond
compare. All is quiet. The electric light
Drlghtens the subterranean vaults as though
the midday sun in all its glory was etfui-
gent there. huge rolls of paper, miles in ey-
tent. ARE fastened in their place, and the
Stereotyped plates wait patiently to begin
-Eelr work Of devouring. digesting and
sprlnglng forth for the healing of the ma
lions, With the word the machinery starts.
and with the rapidly of the lightning,
Hight the wheels merrily turn, and within
the hour that roll of paper, miles in length.
has poured into the funnel and oyerthec CYL
lnder and rests now IA mighty pile of eight.
ten, twenty. forty PACED papers. neatly. ac
printed on both sides, folded with
mathematical precision, pasted and ready
tor delivery.
The sights almost uncanuy.
And 1t has seemed to Inc at times when
looking over the rail | could almost hear
these mighty monsters whispering To each
other, for they do everything but read.
All this is new.
Blu a brief reference to the pages of ...Joip
ariana" convinces me that nothing else 10
changed students" says the writer. '.oi
very class may now burn their books. like
70 much useless lumber. and circumscribe
.heir studies hereafter to the newspaper
productions OF the press" Even the names
u today were anticipated. Gazette, Jour.
lal. Ledger. Mercury, Courant, Chronicle
nd the like are among them.
According to the writer. fifty wears or
years before his time news writers
Der journalists were mere abstractors
nd brief chroniclers of the time" but j,
vhen this was written the author saws.
" e commonly discover him a curious inn j;
ertlnent, watching the heels Of the great, !
lore intent upon their motions than their /.
giving the earliest notice When !
Is iordshlp stole out of town, and also j.
men her ladyship was happily delivered to !;
great JOY of that noble family" .
obviously newspapers of the then and :,
eWspapers of the now are as like as two =
sas III a single pod. =
newspapers, continues our author, las :
ley have been carried on of late years are j,
Standing reproach to the nation. Every !,
'ecles OF guilt, every mode Of extrava- =
'nce, every method of gambling and every q
'ssible way of subverting order and set :,
nR the laws at defiance are daily init n
ated' cornforted and propagated by our I
writers" =,
ust so here. =
Within the past ten years there has :
own a habit in some of our most influen- j,
journals Of private prosecution which =
$ developed into individual persecution
the most inhuman type. We nave off :,
rs Of the law whose duty it is to detect :,
Ime. arrest, try and punish criminals, 7,
certain newspapers, ipstigated thereto %
hope of gain, have taken it upon them Z
Ives to ferret out every particle of eyi- y
nee and to make it impossible for an ae- q
sed man to have a fair chance in a mod p
q court of justice. Judges are brow e.
aten. lawyers are intimidated and jurors =
I'd their footsteps logged by spacework :"
and the literal sanctity of their -
VI domesticity intruded upon and spied p
,ou by sneak reporters. "
Va it SO then,
Read and ponder. Says the author: =
errors III conduct were condemned -
as now, but the delinquent was ~
& left hopeless. His future virtues might !.
pair his past indiscrerions. At present ~
c error, magnified and tortured by mis- 70
presentation. is irreparable. lie is held p
in scorn and derision. Those that 90 BY II
AXE their heads and make mouths at Il
A paper without murders and rob :.
aries and rapes and incest and bestia,ity "a
ID sodomy aud sacrilege and ineendiary :,
ten aud forcerieS and executions end =