New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-07-19

journalist. II would be as just to say OF
ina" ,,,,o,or that his acts and opinions are all
'"' f nv the desire of office, = which, or on
,ho average politician lives as of the
VIM" white, that the editorial room is the obedent
=, tho counting house. A tn quoque Is not
ST. effective form Of argument. but II seems
80 host NJ the immediate disposal Of the
affairs who resent M. Balfour's criticisms
az undertake to reply to them. 1T is point on
an. avon the Journalist may have different
w.. according to the position in journalism he
,as ar according to his varying experiences.
30 may hold one view at one time and an
,,ou AT another time. Every journalist is
- that there are journals which do not come
" - the ideal. Probably the editor renounces
w ,deal and adjusts his editing TO the admitted
-. that every newspaper must return a per-
so,,ace upon capital. or, ultimately, cease 10
It,, Mr.. Balfour with his usual penetration,
80 perceived where ii is that the ideal and the
"-act,cal have TO part company, or. in other
IDS why it is that the sermons from the ell
,a1 nulpit are not all modelled upon the Ser
- on the Mount. The gift Of penetration Is.
.,.over a dangerous one, and most dangerous
- all II not accompanied by that talent for ST.
."u.o which the more commercial and more in
,,r,o,t newspapers expect from others. though
,,a, do not practise 1t themselves.
,nora are. nevertheless. periodicals which seem
-. ro wrong from no motive Of sef-interest. but
,.oanse the wrong has more attraction LOT them
NON the right Self-interest. it would seem. must
'nryes, 70 the editor OF such a print the advan-
900 Of genialty. of sincerity in EXPRESSION OF
saosnt respect for the opinions OF MANKIND ana
use OF language not derived wholly or IN the
lin from Whitechapel II he puts these con-
.,aorations aside to what are we to attribute It,
=, ot N what the late Mr. Artemus Ward would
,.,,o called pure cussedness? The habituai pref
-.orce Of acrimonious fippancy as method OF
controversy must probably be an individual ID
,osvncracy Yet there is one English paper III
-,h,ch regardless of all doctrines OF chances
,,sse idiosyncracies have succeeded each other
1, a steadily descending scale. but without
.,oa.. one periodical which. from its origin down
:, the present day. and now more than ever
.,s systematically outraged the just sensibihties
- .ho nnblic and the accepted laws not of
.,rr,ausp merely, but of intercourse between
,ranhers Of society.
=. ,ursuance Of these traditions and for the
.rouacation of an enmity which can only be po-
vrcal THE Saturday Review" has just per-
...uad q rather considerable feat OF wnich, per-
,,ns no other English periodical would be capa-
49, II has first recorded ana tnen ulScusscu '"O
...assination Of President Carnot without one
ord ~ sympathy for the victim. without trio-
,a If any kind TO his character or memory
,,,bout single expression Of civiIty, without
..oosn,,ion Of the dignity of his Office. without
.sarsssing on its own behalf an expression Oh re-
,., either TO the family or TO the country Oh the
,or-sered President. A coHtemptuous sheer twice
-.nao,ed is the homage which this review THINKS
sr,,abs 10 the occasion. In It's so-caileu chroii-
- sort OF weekly travesty OF the anairS Oh
.ho world by a writer who discusses events SOME
,,rss IN the spirit of Puck and more ofteh as
Cauhan--,t is related that president Carno'
NOS, resnectable and inoffensive person. was NOR
,orv stabbed by one Santo, an Anarchist An
article on THE Murder of NJ. Carnot Is preceueu
nv one on Cricket Criucs"-cricket being SUD-
,s,, on which the saturday Review mas serious
Convictions This article begins with the re-
mark that 1.-The murder OF NJ. Carnot Is oil"'e
which excites TO q kind Of indignant contempt
enough the act in itself is not altogether con-
ter,nt,ble very worthy man has been K'lieu'
e,c etc" That exhausts the direct references 10
the President. and that is the measure OF tne
dentbs to which this paper has sunk. e. W. .