The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-28

depend from the law In my opinion the
dependence is mutual and consequently the
ldsgasratNe power cannot noid ltseir m
opinion, which manifests itself through the
press. Nan. as a social being, has three
ideas; interest and participation in the
government of the State to which he be-
longs; to be kept as accurately ana prompt
the word about him. Nothing petter meets
these three wants than the public press.
II man We're left with the iacuity OF
would be satisfied Books are, tbs true, a
useful expediant, but rather serve for gem
eral instruction than for the practical
knowledge of the daily course of events
and may fittingly be called the fixed
press Pre-. Periodicals answer the need better
They may be termed an intermittent
press The daily or public press. a continu-
advantage of being fully proportionate to
the social exigencies of the human mind.
The practical life, net only of the in
dividual but also of the body polite, is
a sylligism, the major proportion of which
containing a general truth, may be found
in the book press. the minor, may be had
cius1on belongs properly TO the daily pub
nc press, which, day. by day, describes
: therefore, just as the conclusion of the
syliogism contains in itself all the strength
so the pube nr a c Is ali Irf be th o1o
OF general truths and of particular ap-
pllcations describing as in its, proper field
that which is done in practical life as
well by the governing as by the governed
Society is an organized body. The gov
ernment is its head: the people it's MEM
its blood, the wealth which has it's be-
ginning and ending in the history of the
the press may well be termed its lungs
since 1t serves as the organ of public
re alto Or, again, ] DO mo-, not hesitate
the public has that office in Which R0i the
l nanI is performed by conscience and to
rs it not the public press which at the
proper time should make known 10 the
makers of law what should or should not
any one deny to the public press the right
in matters which concern the people at
And especially does this public press act
as the public conscience since the mass of
the people think. speak and act under the
being the Importance of the public
press, it is evident how much those VINO
labor in this ministry merit the good viii
and esteem OF the people.
lea down to the present moment / have
had every reason to feel pleasure with
the press of this country, to. conceive the
it's great Importance, to nourish for it feel
ings Of sincere and imperishable. gratitude.
you you win find it expressed in the con-
ditions enunciated for my favorable re-
ception here, by well-meanlng but misled
writer in the Forum two years ago-it is
to help to teach the ignorant. to raise the
fallen; to lead the guilty and penitent to
an invisible and divine Savior, who alone
has power to forgive sin; to console the
sorrowing; to edify the believing; to pro-
the spirit of Christian brotherhood through
out the land. If you want to know what
my mission is not you have it il the words
of this writer in which he explains what
he thinks it is. He asserts that am here
to further the. claims of the Pope to a
embraces the whole world all the king
doms of the world and the glory Of them. n,
I'm my own name. and In that OF Leo
XIII, who sent me, 1 repudiate any such
purpose. And, when 1t shall please. the
Pope to recall me, trusting in the kindness
and rectitude of the public press, as sam
uel of old, on laying down the government
of Israel appealed to the. assembled people
to express their satisfaction or dissatisfac-
ton with his administration SO / shall not
hesitate to present to the press OF the
country the record of my labors and say,
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