The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-03-27

country live and die unknown, and are
denied their just fame. The vast pub
lie never learns who thew are. Most of
them are on comparatively small in
come, and after awhile their hand for
gets its cunning. and they are without
resources, left to die Why not, at
least, have his initial attached to his
most important work? Railways gave
additional force to an article when you
occasionally saw added to some signif-
can't article in the old New York COur-
Ter and Enquirer j. w. W. or in the
Tribune Fl. e., or in the Herald J. G.
B., or in the Times H. J. r, or in the
Evening Post W. C. B., or in the Even
| ing Express E b. While this arrange
ment would be fair and just thing
| for newspaper writers, it would be a
defense for the public.
! 1t is sometimes true that things dam
aging to private character are said.
! Who is responsible? 1t is the I'VE of
the editorial or reportorial columns
Every man in every profession or occu-
| patton ought to be responsible for
what he does No honorable man
will ever write that which he would be
I ~ Dul luOuSduuo VI per
sons have suffered from the imper-
sonality of newspapsr What can one
private citizen, wronged in his reputa-
ton, do in a contest with misrepresen-
tation multiplied into 10000 or so, 600
copies? An injustice done in print is
/ illimitably worse than an idjustice
done in private life. During loss of
temper a man may say that for which
he will be sorry in ten minutes; but
newspaper injustice has to be written,
| set up in type, then the proof taken
| off, and read and corrected, and then
| for six or ten hours the presses are
busy running off the issue. Plenty Of
time to correct. Plenty of time to
| cool off. Plenty of time to repent.
/ But all that is hidden in the imperson-
atty of a newspaper. 1t will be long
| step forward when all is changed and
newspaper writers get credit for the
| good and are held responsible for the
evil
Another step forward for newspaper
dom will be when in our colleges and
| universities we open opportunities for
preparing candidates for the editorial
chair We have in such institutions
medical departments and law depart
ments, why not editorial departments?
Another blessing of the newspaper
| is the foundation it lays for accurate
| history of the time in which we live.
| We for the most part blindly guess
about the ages that autedate the news
paper, and are dependent upon the
preiudices of this or that historian.
But after hundred or two years what
a splendid opportunity the historian
will have to teach the people the les
son of this day. Our Bancrofts got
from the early newspapers of this
| country, from the Boston News Letter,
/ the New York Gazette, and the Amer
| lean Rag Bag and Royal Gazetteer
| and Independent Chronicle, and
Massachusetts, Spy and the Philadel-
| phia Aurora, accounts of Perry's
victory and Hamilton's duel and Wash
| ington's death and Boston's massacre
and the oppressive foreign tax on LEX
uries, which turned Boston's harbor
! into teapot, and Paul Revere's mid
/ night ride, and the Rhode Island rebel
/ lion, and South Carolina notification.
/ But what field for the chronicler Of
| the great future when ne opens the
/ files of hundred standard American
newspapers, giving the minutia of all
/ things occurring under the social,
/ political, ecclesiastical, international
/ headings. Five hundred years from
now. if the world lasts so long,
the student looking for stirring, decis-
I sive history will pass by the misty cor
| ridors of other centuries and say to the
| libraries; Find me the volumes that
I give the century in which the Ameri-
/ can presidents were assassinated, the
civil war enacted. and the cotton gin,
/ the steam locomotive, and electric pen,
/ the telephone, and cylinder presses
were invented" Once more | remark
/ that good newspaper is as much a
| blessing as an evangelistic influence.
/ You know there is a great change in
I our day taking place. All the secular
newspapers of the day-for I am not
/ speaking now of religious newspapers
all secular newspa pers of the day dis
cuss all the questions Of God. eternity,
/ and the dead, and all the questions of
[ the past, present and future. There is
not single doctrine of Theology but
/ has been discussed in the last ten
/ years by secular newspapers of
the country. They gather up all
( the news of all the earth bearing on
religious subjects, and then they scat
ter the news abroad again. The Christ
ian newspaper will be the right wing
of the apocalyptic angel. The cylinder
of the Christianized printing press will
be the front wheel of the Lords char
lot l take the music Of this day, aud
do not mark it crescendo. A pastor
on Sabbath breaches to a few hun
dred, or few thousand people, and on
Monday, or during the week, the print
ing press will take the same sermon
and preach it to millions of people.
God speed the printing press! God
save the printing press!. God Christ
ianize the printing press!
When see the printing press stand
ing with the electric telegraph on the
one side gathering up material, and
the lightning express train on the