The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1896-04-03

'H'''i WV l'NNiHi'iit wv o'ih'i'''s WI
vigilance, the strategy Of commar
dcr'in-chief. TO edit a newspaper re
quires that one be a statesman. a
essayist, geograpler, IA statistician
and. in acquisition. encyclopedia. Z
man, tn govern, TO propcl a newspapc
until it shall became fixed ihstitil
tlOn, Il mai iOnal fact, demand NOR
qualities than any business on earth
If you feel like starting any newspa
per, secular or religious, understand
thatyou are being threatened will
softenlng of the brain or lunacy, ant
throwing your pOcketb0Ok into you
wifes lap. start for some insane asy
lum before you do something desper
ate. Meanwhile. as the dead ncwspa
pers, week by week, are carried out tC
the burial. all the living newspapers
give respectful obituary, telling when
they were born and when they died
The best Of printers ink should give
at least IA stckful of epitaph. II it was
agood paper, say, Peace to its ashes.
If it was "A bad paper | suggest the epi
taph written for Francis Chartreuse
Here cOntinuth to rot the body OF
Francis Chartrcuse, who, with an
intleXible cOnStancy and uniformity OF
life, persisted in the practice of every
human vice, excepting prodigality and
hypocrisy: his Unsuitable avaricc ex
cmpting him from The trst, his match
less impudcncc from the second"
say this because | want you to know
that good, healthy, lOng-liycd, en-.
tcrtainlDg ncwpaper is not an easy
blessing, but one that comes to US
through the # G.
FOR THE MULTITUDE.
First Of all, newspapers make
knowledge democratic and for the
multitude. The public library is Il
hay-mow so high up that few can
reach it, while the newspaper throws
down the forage to our feet. Public
Libraries are the reservoirs where the
great floods are stored high up aud
away off. The newspaper is the fun
mel that brings them down to the
pitchers Of the people. The chief
uses Of great libraries is to make news
papers out Of. Great libraries make a
few men and women very wise. News
papers lift whole nations into the sun
light. Better have fifty million peo.
pie moderately intelligent than one
hundred thousand Solons. A false
impression is abroad that newspaper
knowledge is cphemeral because peri
odicals are thrown aside and not one
out OF ten thousand people files them
for future reference. Such knowledge.
so far from being ephemeral, goes into
the very structure of the worlds heart
and brain, and decides the destiny of
churches and nations. knowledge on
the shelf is Of but little worth. 1t is
knowledge afoot, knowledge in har.
ness, knowledge in revolution, knowl.
edge winged, knowledge projected,
knowledge thunder-boltcd So far
from being ephemeral, nearly all of
the best minds and hearts haye their
hands on the printing press, to-day,
and have had since it got emancipated.
Adams, and Hancock, and Otis used
to go to the Boston Gazette and COM
pose articles on the rights of the peo-
pie. Benjamin Franklin, De Witt
Clinton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Quincy,
were strong in ncwSpaperd0m. Many
Of the immortal things that have been
published in book form first appeared
in what you may call the ephemeral
periodical. All Macaulay's essays first
appeared in a review. All Carlye's, all
Ruskin's, all MclntOsl's, all Sidney
Smiths, all IIazlitt's, all Thackeray's.
all the elevated works Of fiction in our
day are reprints from periodicals in
which they appeared as serials. Ten
nyson's poems, Burns poems, Emer-
sons poems, Lowell's poems, were
once fugitive pieces. You cannot find
ten literary men in christendom. with
strong minds and great hearts, but
are or have been somehow connected
with the newspaper printing press.
While the book will always have its
place, the newspaper is more potent.
Because the latter is multitudinous,
d not conclude it is necessarily super.
fetal. TIA man should from child
hood to old age see only his Bible,
Websters Dictionary and his newspa-
per, he could be prepared for all the
duties of this life and all the happi-
HESS vi Tue nckU.
USEFUL MIRROR OF LIFE.
Again, good newspaper is a use
ful mirror of life as it is. 1t is some
times complained that newspasers re-
port the evil when they ought to re-
port only the good. They must re-
port the evil as well as the good, or
how shall we know what is to be re-
formed, what guarded against, what
fought down? A newspaper that
pictures only the honesty and virtue
Of society is Misrepresentation.
That family is best prepared for the
duties Of life which, knowing the evil,
Is taught to select the good. Keep
children under the impression that
all is fair and right In the world, and
when they 50 out into IL they will be
as poorly prepared to struggle with 1t
as a child who is thrown into the mid.
die OF the Atlantic and told To learn
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