Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-23

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...-.-e they may be glad to hear what
.ioss of them. while he discusses a
i'm which the whole country is
.-.sed His text to-day was: And
... wheels were fun Of eyes Ezekiel
.ra For an the Athenians and
s which were there spent their
i'm nothing else but either to tell
.fear some new thing. Acts 17:2l.
What is q preacher to do when he
---. mo texts equally good and sugges-
1r that perpleXity I take both
v...r- ru of eyes2 What but the
....-1 OLA newspaper printing press
....~ wheels are blind, they roll on
,.re or crushing. The manufactur-
wheel. how 10 grinds the operator
r-isues and rolls over nerve and
and bone and heart. not knowing
M 10 does. The sewing machine
...r secs not the aches and pains fas-
.r.r-o tighter than the hand that
sharper than the needle which
.r.- Every moment Of every hour
.s-v day of every month Of every
there are hundreds of thousands
wheels Of mechanism. wheels OF en-
-e. wheels of hard work, i'm mo-
..r hut they are eyeless. Not so with
wheels of The printing press. Their
rr-. business lis
TO LOOK AND REPORT.
They are fun Of optic nerves. from axles
.fre-chory. They are like those spOk-
b, Ezekiel as fun of eyes. Sharp
near sighted, far sighted They
look r0 They look down. They look
nrauav. They take in the next street
and the next hemisphere. Eyes Of
criticism. eyes OF investigation: eyes
-.a. twinkle with mirth. eyes glover
r- with indignation, ewes tender with
love. eyes of suspicion, eyes OF hope;
eyes black eyes, green eyes; holy
eyes, evil eyes, sore eyes, political eyes.
literary eyes, historical eyes. religious
eyes. thar see everything. And the
rr.ai, we're FUN of eyes, But i'm my
second text is the worlds cry for the
newspaper Paul describes class Of
people in Athens who spent their time
either in gathering the news or telling
r Why especially I'm Athens Be
cause the more intelligent people be-
cone the more inQuisitive they are
r7- about small things. but great
things
The question then most frequently is
the question now most frequently ask
ei What IS the news2 To answer that
0r for he text in the newspaper the
centuries have
PUT THEIR WITS TO WORK.
81 newspaper that has been printed
every week for one thousand years.
printed on silk. Rome succeeded by
publishing the Acta Diurua i'm the
same column putting fires. murders.
marriages and tempests. France sue
.a'dod by @ physician writing out the
news OF the day for his patients Eng
land succeeded under Queen Elizabeth
M first publishing the news OF the
Spanish Armada. and going on until
She had enough enterprise when the
battle OF Waterloo was fought. deciding
The destiny of Europe. to give it one
third of column I'm the London Morn
ing Chronicle. about as much as the
newspaper of our day gives q small fire.
America succeeded by Benjamin Har-
riss first weekly paper called Public
Occurrences. published i'm Boston in
1890, and by the first daily. the Ameri-
can Advertiser, published in Philadel-
rhi7 I'm 1884
The newspaper did not suddenly
spring upon the world. but came grad
ua|r. The genealogical line of the
newspaper is this. The Adam of the
race was a circular or newsletter
created by Divine impulse i'm human
nature, and the circular begat the PAM
rr.er and the pamphlet begat the quar-
a-.r. and the quarterly begat the week
r and the weekly begst the semi
weekly. and the semi-weekly begat the
daily. But alas by what a struggle IL
came 90
IT'S PRESENT DEVELOPMENT
No sooner had IT'S power been demon
s-7ted than tyranny and superstition
s13cAIed it. There is nothing that des-
h0rsm So fears and hates as a printing
PRESS IT, has too many eyes In its
Wheel a great writer declared that
e King of Naples made it unsafe for
m 90 write of anything but natural
Austria could not endure Kos
journalistic pen. pleading for the
redemption OF Hungary. Napoleon T.
Ing -o keep his iron heel on the neck
' nations. said. Editors are the re-
-oots OF Sovereigns and the tutors Of
Ions. and are only tit for prison "
W 'he battle for the freedom of the
press was fought I'm the court rooms Of
ENGLAND and America. and decided be-
.'e This century began by Hamilton's
a1enr plea for j. Peter Zenger's Ga
n America. and Erskine's advO-
.t 't Che freedom OF publication in
Stand These were the Marathon
.t Ibermopylae I'm which the free
-.H OF The press WAS established IN the
.t States and Great Britain. and
'to movers OF earth and he'll Will
ever again be- able Co put on the hand
GIFTS and hobbies of
.-|tRARY AND POLITICAL DES-
POTISM.
notable that Thomas Jefferson.
wrote The Declaration or American
0nlCnco, wrote. also. "If had to
' between % government without
rn1oets or newspapers without gov
ot I should prefer the latter.
sung DF some base fabrica ton coming
l pr,ut we come TO write or speak
Che unhridled printing press: or. our
pr" ''oS ground mp by an unjust critic.
come to write or speak OF the unfair
Iae printing press. or perhaps.
-1 cur own inGisinCtnoss Of ut
Ne are reported as saying just
opposite OF what we did say. and
small riot Of Semic0leus. nv
end commas. and we come TO
or write of the laundering print-