Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-01-27

The tenth annual dinner of the Gridiron
Club, given tonight at the Arlington
Hotel, was one Of the most successful
ever given by this club. Among the
many prominent guests were Arch bishop
Satoili, Papal Delegate, his secretary,
DR.. Rocker, eX-Speaker Reed, Asso-
ciate Justice Brewer, Major General
Schoteld, the German, Hawaiian aud
Argentine Ministers. Many novel and
interesting features OF the entertain
ment were introduced, and the speeches
were unusually bright and able, notable
among them being that of Mgr Satolli,
who had his first opportunity since his
residence in this country OF addressing
the press. Mgr. Satolli's address, which
was read by DR.. Rocker was as fol-
lows:
From Aristotle to the renowned
author of L'Esprit des Lous. learned
men have divided the functions OF gov
ernment into claSses-the legislative,
the executive or ad dministratiye, and the
iudicial-which are, 10 truth, but three
activities Of one and the same power
of the people ahd represents them.
Now, however, an adequate division OF
THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT
would have to include fourth element
and this is public opinion, exercising its
activity through the public press. 1t
is consequently o great pleasure ana
honor to me 10 be with you 8 his even
ing, feeling as do, that l am surround
ed by the representatives. OF this fourth
power in the greatest and mos; glorious
OF modern republics. Brice in his ad-
mirable work on The American Com
monwealth' declares 'in no country Is
public opinion so powerful as In the
United States; in no country can IL be
SO we'll studied
Man, as a social being, has three
natural needs. The communication OF
his ideas; interest and participation In
the government OF the State u hich
ne belongs; to be kept as accurately
and as promptly as possible Informed OF
what goes on 10 the world about him.
Nothing better meets these three wants
than the public press. The daily or
public press, continuous press, when
well organized has the advantage oil
being fully proportionate to the social
EXIGENCIEs OF THE HUMAN MIND.
"Society is an organized body. The
government is its head; the people It's
members; the military, its veins and
muscles; It's blood, the wealth which
has It's beginning and ending in the his
tory Of the people; morality and religion
are its heart; the press may we'll be
termed its lungs, since 1t serves as
the organ of puolIc Inspiration, or
again. do not hesitate TO say
that in the body polite the public press
has that Office which in the individual
is performed by conscience, and TO de-
fine il as the organ of social conscience.
In fact, what are the functions OF con
science? To testify, to withhold ana
instigaJe, TO accuse, TO reprehend, and
TO cause remOrse. Aud is 1t not indeed
the public press which makes known
the deeds of society from day TO
day? Charles Dudley Warner de-
clares that the purpose OF the
creation OF the newspaper Is that III
should be a mirror OF contemporary
1fe.' And especially does this pubic
press act as the public conscience since
the mass OF the people think, speak ana
act under the influence OF impressions
received from the daily papers.
up to the fifteenth century there
was no vehicle OF intellectual and moral
except the manuscript
copies for the few. From the invention
of printing in the fifteenth century to
the eighteenth, books were multiplied
and
INSTRUCTION FACILITATED
and generaized, and libraries sprung up
like many temples of the human ency-
clop1dia. 1t was left for the puoiic
press to provide fully and universally
for the teaching of the masses.
$50 great being the Importance OF
the public press, IL is evident now much
those VINO labor in this ministry merit
the good will and esteem Of the people.
al cannot agree with Mr.. j. W.
Keller, who makes OF journalism a mere
trade and a poor one at that. To me,
II seems a lie OF dsvotion 10 h'gn and
noble work, TO the enlighten-
ment and betterment of man
KIND. bringing with Il that reward
richer than the mere accumulation
of wealth, the Consciousness OF being
factor in the Onward marcn OF human
ity NAV not be indiscreet in suggest
inc that over the door OF every news
nsner building should be Inscribed the
words truth, justice, honesty OF all for
all.
From the day OF my arrival in
America down To the present moment,
have every reason TO feel pleased with
the uress of this country, TO corrective
the most exalted opinion of II, to appre-
c,ate its great Importance, to nonrlsh
for il feelings Of sincere and imperlsha'
bile gratitude. II you desire 10 know
MY MISSION AMONG YOU,
YOU will find it expressed In the condl-
tioos enunciated for my favorable re-
.csntion here, by a weil-meaning, but
mi.led writer in the Forum, two years
aro 1t to help TO teach the isnor-
amt to raise the fallen, 10 lead the gull
rrsnd Denitent, and invisible and Di-
vine Savior. who alone has power TO
forgive sins; TO console the sor-
rowing, TO edify the oeileVing' TO
promote righteousness, liberty, sym
natnv and the spirit OF CHRISTIAN
hrotbers. throughout the land. If you
want IN know what my mission is not,
Won have il in the words of this writer,
in which he explains what he
thioks il is. lie asserts that
am here to further the claims