The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-09-09

paign you are already making gives as
sHrance Of the happy result. Yet. neither
the editors nor the great orators Of the
party are making this campaign. The
plain people arc thinking Ii out for them
selves. Even the best speeches are not
those made on the stump They are COM
ing from the porch or the ll;tle two-story
wooden cottage In Canton: and they make
"a proud in this crisis Of our leaders
as We are Of our cause.
With fraternal salutations and con-
gratulations to Ohio editors, am very
truly yours. WHITEI1AW REID"
A. the afternoon session. Charles Emory
Smith, editor OF the Philadelphia Press.
delivered an address on The Campaign
Of Education:"
Sir Smith sail In part: 1T is a high
privilege ani distinction to address this
notable body IN ths memorial year on
this occasion. | am fully sensible OF the
honor you do me. and beg 10 return my
grateful acknowledgements. When JeffeT-
son said that he would rather have news
papers without government than a goy
eminent without newspapers he indicated
the vital part which newspapers play un-
der free institutions. That. was a bun
drei years ago. They wer- then printed
With all the limitations OF the hand press.
with only the infr"quent mail as their
feeder. and only the stage coach as their
distributor
To-day liberty Is their vital breath. hut
the telegraph is their nerve center and the
railroad their arterial circulation. Gov
eminent has expanded and population
multiplied twenIYfOlf. bat newspaper cir
eglatiou ani resources and influence have
multiplied a th0usanifold. hundred
wears aKo the newspapers were sent in as
the outposts- Today they hold the central
citadel as leaaers. as expouents They are
f-r FAf.s s,f a
Greeley was the greatest controversiaNst
and moral force the world has ever seen
in the editorial profession. But Whitelaw
Reid. Ni.h ConsGmmate skill, organ
izei ana directs "A far more complete AMI
progressive journalism. Thuriow Weed
was an unrvalei political oracle and seer.
bat Charles \. Dana. master Of every
weapon. wields a rapier or fires Calling
broaisi - of which the leader or the pre-
reding generation never d-es med. James
Gordon Bennett. the elder. raced the pony
or few ih@ carrier pigeon. but James CO.
eaa Bennett. the younger speaks 20 two
continents At once The Journalism of ra
interior ONO towns sprpasses that Of tha
metropolis thirty years ago: but The great
reNs2a pers of New York. Philadelphia
RosfOn Baltimore, Cincinnati. Chicago
and 81. Louis have grown incalculahlv In
score reserves. expenses. profits and
power.
Politics and Journalism.
s-rha intimate connertlnn ha.vAAn ,or.
ia sn4 Journalism suggests he tho9ebt
81 the ho1r This Is rra-Arnfoentlv
.a,9natgn of esfacaffon: Il il thns oecttltar
~ our raopatrn. The Journalists are n.
zeal sa-,etc~z A thousand ne, ~.
heard anf a million men read I. = .rp.
there are rres- textbooks from, IA mas
tars There i~ new Aaam Smiths
.Weal+h or Nations a nov r}unvap.s
.Fs1rri-ls Progress through She Slough
- Desmond 81 Democracy and IN tha f4ul
- usHl~uffy- v~w Faxte~'s .Safr,s'
pezt' under assured R@-snfff~7, -es.,r.-
sirr TIE otN N~~ ,f.fsz - -nssA ,-awt.r-
-ie~r~ ar@ W8'9farn Nel<t~loyta 4.9.7,nle+A
Political Feo-0n,v ~ or.r Nf.rs s,r v>~.a
Labor. Rather th4r open Ni~ts for Free
silver 9}c. Nar~ieor+s .Satf-.ral Pc
aect.ons oa the AhsIr5stlss y q po,,
Orators I5eas - {ndes.e~ feu-s - -
I.aw q Crav.taHo..- ara Thomas y
Reels 'plaus o. Po,itieal Fntiosoohv..
Hst the o.1 teVt-oooks 8ra fNt.,ar~4es ~,
tae professors ln :Ae c1ae--r1rn arf a.
thu rev textbooks ara e8.-af wen re+>s
ans i7-'N Nre~e'3 '1ate3 3y }te $ hooi-
masters "' 32irNAifsin-
"@ 'n'st arSi s3n a.~ ourselves. We
"aS' e' str sie ''"'fte SIS %. 'ren' a ..rin-
ns' f''e",e iaf'n - under
arss ot var a anv no~e tat- wa s.s-t.
aets ~ weent or lene.a IN as- rro5@rn
civilization t1r function a- @.sr.y. 80
riea@-T" q ts..' even fa1 Important