The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23

article in the old New York Courier and
ENQUIRER j. w w, or in the Tribune n.
Times II. J. r., or in the Evening Post w.
G. b. or In the Evening Express r. Is.
While this arrangement would be a fair
and Just thing for newspaper writer's ii
would be defense for the public II is
sometimes true that things damaging to
private character are said. Who is re-
sponsible? Ii is the I'VE" of the editorial
or reportorial columns. Every man in ev-
cry profession or occupation ought to be
responsible for what he does. No honora-
lie man viii ever write that which he
would be afraid to sign. But thousands
OF persons have suffered from the imper-
sonallty OF newspapers. What can one
private citizen wronged in his reputation
do IN contest with misrepresentation
multiplied into twenty or fifty thousand
copies? An injustice done in print is il
limitably worse than an injustice done in
private life. During loss of temper a man
may say that for which he will be sorry
in ten minutes: but a newspaper Injustice
mas hrst TO be written, set up i'm type.
then the proof taken off, and read ana
corrected and then for six or ten hours
the presses are busy running off the is
sue. Plenty of time to correct. Plenty
OF time to cool off Plenty of time to re-
pent But all that is hidden in the i'm
personality of a newspaper. n will be a
long step forward when all is changed.
and newspaper writer's get credit for the
good and are held responsible for the evil.
Another step forward for newspaperdom
VIII be when in our colleges and univer-
slteS we open opportunities for preparing
candidates for the editorial chair we
nave IN such institutions medical depart
ments, law departments, why not editoriai
departments? Do the legal and healing
professions demand more culture and care
Iul training than the editorial or reporto-
rlal professions? / know men may tumble
by what seems accident into a newspaper
ONCE as they may tumble into other oc-
cupauons, but 1t would be an incalculabIe
advantage II those proposing newspaper
Me had an institution to which they might
90 70 learn the qualifications, the RESPONSE
pllltles, the trials, the temptations the
dangers, the magnificent OPPORTUNITIES Of
newspaper life. Let there be a lecture
snip m which there shall appear the lead
ing EDITORS of the United States telling
the story of their struggles their Veto,
ries their mistakes how they worked
ana what they found out to be the best
way OF working. There will be strong
wen who viii climb up without such aid
INTO editorial power and efficiency. So
do men climb up to success i'm other.
branches by sheer grit But If we wanr
learned INSTITUTIONS to make lawyers and
aTil nhs and doctors and ministers, we
make editors, who occupy a position Of
influence hundredfold greater / do NOT
Put me truth too strongly when l say
Ine most potent influence for good ON
earth is good editor and the most potent
influence lid,i for evil is a bad one The best
paper is to endow editorial profession
ales when Will Princeton, or Harvard
OF Yale, or Rochester, lead the way?
the Foundation it lays for accurate historv
OF the time in which we live We for the
most part blindly guess about the ages
mat ante-date the newspaper. and are
dependent upon the prejudices of this or
that historian. But after a hundred o,.
Two years what a splendid opportunity
the historian will have to teach the neo-
pie the lesson of this day Our Bancrofts
got from the early newspapers of This
country, from the Boston NeWs-I etter.
the New York Gazette, and the America
Rag Bag, and Royal Gazetteer and In
dependent Chronicle. and MassachI1s-
etts Spy and the Philadelphia Aurora
accounts OF Perrys victory, and HamiI,
tons duel, and Washington's death and
Boston massacre, and the Oppressive for
elgn tax on luXures which turned Ros
Ton haror into a teapot. and Paul Re
rereS midnlght ride, and Rhode Island
uon But what field for the Chronicle
81 the great future when he opens the
MES OF a hundred standard American
newspapers, giving the minutiae of ali
tnlngs occurring under the social noIiti
cal, ecclesiastical, international headlines
Five hundred years from now. if the
world lasts so long, the student lookinS
for stirring, decisive history will mass he,
the misty corridors of other centuries
and say to the libraries: "Find me tba
volumes that give the century in which
the American presidents were assassinst-
ed, the civil war enacter, and the cotton-
gin, the steam locomotive and teleoraDb
ana electric pen, and telephone and CYL
lnder presses, were invented
Once more | remark that a goo6 na,,,s
paper Is blessing as an evangelistic
influence. You know there is eraat
change in our day taking place All the
am not speaking now of the relieio,,s
newspapers-all of the secular newspa-
pers of the day discuss all the questions
~ tbo zoo, e,ternity ana the dead. and all
future. There is not a single doctrine of
theology but has been discussed In tna
last ten years by the secular newsDa-
pers OF the country. They gather up All