The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
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ton; that neither sun nor moon stands
still; that the world goes on lying. and
cheating and stealing just as II did be-
fore the first issue. The aforesaid mat
ter-of-fact stakeholder wants to sell out
his stock, but nobody wants to buy, ana
other stockholders get infected and SICK
of newspaperdom, and an enormous blll
at the paper factory rolls into an ava
lanche, and the printers refuse to work
until back wages are paid up and the
compositor bows to the managing editor,
and the managing editor bows 10 the
edltor-in-chief, and the editor-in-chief
bows to the directors, and the directors
bow TO the world at large, and all the
subscribers wonder why their paper
doesn't come. The world will have to
learn that newspaper is as much OF
an institution as the Bank OF England
or Yale College, and is not an enterprise.
If you have the aforesaid agricultural,
or scientific, or, religious, or political idea
TO ventilate, you had better charge upon
the world through the columns already
established. 1t is folly for any one who
cannot succeed at anything else 10 try
newspaperdom. If you cannot climb the
hill back of your house It is folly to try
the sides of the Matterhorn.
To publish a newspaper requires the
skill, the precision, the boldness, the vigil
lance, the strategy OF commandment
chief To edit newspaper requires that
one be statesman, an essayist, geo
grapher, statistician. and in acquisition,
encyclopaedia. To man, to govern, TO
prope a newspaper until 1t shall be
fixed institution, a national fact, demand
more qualities than any business on
earth. If you feel like starting any news
paper secular or religious, understand
that you are being threatened with soft
ening of the brain or lunacy, and throw
ing your pocketbook into your wite's lap,
start for some insane asylum before you
do something desperate. Meanwhile, as
the dead newspaper, week by week, are
carried out to the burial, all the living
newspapers give respectful obituary, tell
ing when they were born and when they
died. The best printers ink should give
fv1rf taN Of a nh
was a good paper, say, Peace to its
ashes" If 1t was a bad paper, l suggest
the epitaph written for Francis Chart
reuse: Here continueth to rot the body
of Francis Chartreuse, who, with an IN
flexible constancy and uniformity OF life,
persisted in the practice OF every human
vice. excepting prodigality and hypocrisy
his Unsuitable aVarlce exempted him from
the first, his matchless impudence from
the second l say this because l want
you to know that good, healthy, long
lived, entertaining newspaper is not an
easy blessing. but one that comes to us
through the fire.
First of all, ne wspapers make knowledge
democratic and for the multitude. The
public library is a hay-moW so nigh up
that few can reach it, While the neWSpd-
per throws down the forage to our feet
Public libraries are the reservoirs where
the great floods are stored high up and
away off. The newspaper is the tunnel
that brings them down to the pitchers OF
all the people. The chief use of great Ii
braries is to make newspapers out Of
Great libraries make few men and wo-
men very wise. Newspapers lift whole
nations into the sunlight Better have
fifty million people moderately lntelll-
gent than one hundred thousand Solons
A false impression is abroad that news
paper knowledge is ephemeral because
periodicals are thrown aside, and not one
out of ten thousand people niles them Tor
future refernce. Such knowledge, so Tar
from being ephemeral, goes into the very
structures of the worlds heart and brain,
and decides the destiny OF churches and
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little worth 1t is knowledge afoot,
knowledge harnessed, knowledge in rev
projected, knowledge thunder-bolted. SO
far from being ephemeral, nearly all the
best minds and hearts have their hands
the nave printing ad s RTess to-d sSt
emancipated. Adams, and Hancock, and
Otis used to go TO the Boston Gazette
and comnose articles on the rights of the
people benjamin Franklin, De Witt Gin
ton. Hamilton, jefferson, Quincy, We're
strong in newSpaperdom. Many OF the I'M
mortal things that have been published IN
hook form first appeared in what you may
call the ephermeral periodical. All Macau-
laws essays first appeared in review. All
sydney Smiths, all Hazlitts, all Thack
eray's all the elevated works or notion
in our day, are reprints from periodicals.
in which they appeared as serials. Ienny-
sons poems, Burns's poems, Longfellow's
poems Emerson's poems, Lowers
poems, Winters poems, were once tugi-
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 it's place, the newspaper is more po-
tent Because the latter is multitudinous,
do not conclude it is necessarily superb
cial If a man should from childhood to
old age see only his Bible, Webster's die
tionary and his newspaper, he could be
prepared for all the duties of this life and
all the happiness of the next
Again. a good newspaper is a useful mir
ror of life as ii is. 1t is sometimes COM
planned that newspapers report the evil
when they ought only TO report the good.
They must report the evil as well as the
good or how shall we know what is to be
reformed, what guarded against, what
fought down? newspaper that pictures
only the honesty and virtue of society is
INSTRUMENTATION. That family is best pre-
pared fer the duties of life which, know
ing the evil, is taught to select the good.
Keen children under the impression that
I'll is fair and right in the world. and when
they go out into it they will be as poorly
prepared to struggle with i as child
who is thrown into the middle of the At
lantic and told TO learn how to swim. Our
only complaint is when sin is made at
tractive and morality dun, when vice is
painted with great headings and good
deeds are put in obscure corners iniqui-
ty set uD in great primer and righteous
ness in nonpareil. Sin is loathsome make
it loathsome. Virtue is beautiful make it
beautiful
1t would work a vast Improvement II
all our representations, political, literary
should for the most part drop their i'm
personality. This would do better justice
TO newspaper writer's. Many of the strong
est and best writers of the country live
and die unknown, and are denied their
who they are. Most of them are on COM
parauvely small income and after awhile
their hand forgets its cunning. and they
are without resources, left to die Whv
not at least, have his initial attached 10
his most important work2 II always gave
additional force to an article when YOU oc-
ed 10, s4.r. ia