The herald., 1896-09-09
PROFESSIONAL
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Take a Day Off for Con-
versation
/ DECIDEDLY AURFER0OS flavor
Pervades the Balmy Air OF
Canton
AN AGED TRIBUNE ATTACHE
Talks Of Mt. Sinai, nnd Moral Law s
and Things
Brother Smith Of Philadelphia Enjoys
Proud Moment
Tho Republican Editorial Association Meets
at ncKlnIey's Home-AIl the Menu
bers Work Hard to Barn Th:ir
Weekly Stpends
Peryades the Balmy Air OF
Canton
AN AGED TRIBUNE ATTACHE
Talks Of MT. Sinai, nnd Moral Law
and Things
Brother Smith Of Philadelphia Enjoys q
Proud Moment
The Republican Editorial Association Meets
at ncKlnIey's Home-Ail the Menu
bers Work Hard to Barn Th:ir
Weekly Stipends


Associated Press Special Wire
CANTON. Ohio, Sept. S.-The Repub-
Ncan editorial association assembled
this morning. The venerable John Hop
lev of Bucyrus was in the chair, with
Col r. B. Brown Of the GAINESVILLE Cour-
Ter as e-president, c. r. Mccoy OF
Coshocton secretary. An able paper on
Financial Instruction was read by Fl.
n. Boyden of the Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
whitelaw Reid sent q letter Of regret
from Camp Wildair, Upper st. Regis. in
which he thus expressed his opinion of
the silver sentiment:
ITO pay the national debt in silver; to
pay private debts in silver, to nullify
and declare invalid any contract how
ever honestly entered into, for paying
gold. and to turn hfty-three cents worth
of silver into dollar at our mints as
often and as long as any silver mine
owner at home or any silver burdened
Chinaman or Hirdoo from Asia, chooses
to bring It to US: the effects Of all this
Is simply robbery. To ask honest in
telligent men to vote for this is to in
suit them as we'll as to declare that the
people have the right to overrule Mount
Sinai at the polls and reverse the moral
law If they want to-
A feature Of the afternoon session was
an address by Charles Emory Smith,
editor Of the Philadelphia Press, on
The Campaign Of Education.
Mr.. Smith said in part:
1t Is a high privilege and distinction
to address this notable body in this
memorial year and on this occasion. I
ar, fully sensible Of the honor you do me
and beg to return my grateful acknowl-
edgements.
When Jefferson said that he would
rather have newspapers without gov
ernment than government without
newspapers, he indicated the vital part
which newspapers play under free insti
tutions. That was hundred years ago.
They were then printed with all the linn
itations OF the hand press. with only the
infrequent mail as their feeder and only
the stage coach as their distributor.
Today liberty Is their vital breath, but
the telegraph is their nerve center and
the railroad their arterial circulation.
Government has expanded and popula-
ton multiplied twenty-fold. but news
paper circulation and resources and in
fuence have multiplied thousand fold.
A hundred years ago the newspapers
were sent in as the outposts. Today
they hold the central citadel as leaders.
as exponents. They are the very life
blood of discussions. Horace Greeley
was the greatest controversalist and
moral force the world has ever seen in
the editorial profession. But Whitelaw
Reid, with consummate skill, organizes
ana directs a for more complete and
progressive journalism. Thurlow Weed
was an unrivaled political oracle and
seer, but Charles A. Dana, master of
every weapon. wields rapier or fires
gatling broadside of which the leader
of the preceding generation never
dreamed. James Gordon Bennett, the
elder. raced the pony or flew the carrier
pigeon, but James Gordon Bennett, the
younger, speaks to two continents at
once.
The journalism of the interior Ohio
towns surpasses that of the metropolis
thirty years ago, but great newspapers
Of New York, Philadelphia Boston, Bal
timore. Cincinnati, Chicago and StLouis
have grown incalcuabiy in scope, re-
serves, expenses, profits and power.
The intimate connection between poll
tics and Journalism suggests the thought
of the hour This is pre-eminentIy a cam
paign Of education. 1t is thus peculiarly
our campaign. The journalists are the
real educators. A thousand men are
heard and a million men read.
1t is true there are great text books
from the masters. There is a new ADAM
Smiths Wealth Of Nations, a new Rim
yans Pilgrims Progress though the
slough Of despond Of Democracy ana
up the hill Of difficulty. new Baxter,s
Saints Rest under assured Republican
restoration. The other titles of these
masterpieces are William McKinlev,.
complete political economy of open mills
for full labor rather than open mills for
free silver; Ben Harrison's Satirical Re-
Elections on the absurdities of boy ora
tors idea of independence of the law of
gravitation, and Thomas Reeds Plums
Of Political Philosophy; but the old text
books are expounded by the professors
in the class room and so the new tex,
books are edited with notes and indexes.
-elucidated by the schoolmaster of
Journalism.
We must flrst educate ourselves, We
must educate the people In elemental