Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1897-12-09

Let us therefore place the news
paper in the hands of the pupils tc
be studied and recited in school. Nc
better stimulus to alert intelligence
can be given them, We can do moth
ing that will add more TO their inter.
est in human affairs. Nothing can
so we'll aid them to an accurate csti.
mate OF men and things, or 20 surely
lead them to the solution OF the prob
lem OF life and evolution. Do you
wish to draw lesson from lifeY-
The newspaper IS filed with apt
Illustration. Joy, psthos, love, anger,
happiness, sorrow, hope, despair, are
all treated in it's columns; in fact the
whole gamut Of the passions and feel
Ings IS played upon in it's pages, by
the mastery hand Of Reality, yielding
now sweet harmonious music, and
again giving forth harsh, discordant
notes like the wall of the lost.
Do you wish to study the lights
and shadows OF human charaoter?-
Turn to the newspaper again. 1t il
replete with sketches OF surpsssing
interest aud falthiulness. The hero
and the coward, the cunning and the
unsopbistlcated, the scholar aod the
dolt, the statesman and the time-serv.
ing politician are there found playing
at the game of life--not in caricature,
not in imagination, but in the flesh
aud blood OF very human humanity.
Would you interpret the signs in
whose import may be read the des.
tiny OF mankind? Once ogain with
the newspaper as the negative, be.
hold the bright sunlight OF o. stemstic
study, paint the true portrait of the
past present and future.
The objection is sometimes raised
as to the quality Of matter in The
great dailiee and weekies; that they
are sensational, revealing in details
of filth or horror / answer you
ladies and gentlemen that there are
newspapers and newspapers. The
newspaper is largely what its readers
make it, 1t is tho prime o. jet Of
the true newspaper to give the news,
the whole news, and nothing but the
news. True, it ia, that many socaIled
newspapers grind up an associated
press dispatch, mix il with their own
political saliva, aud expect their
readers to swallow aud digest 1t more
readily because OF the preparation. -
Others apparently believe their read
ers are afflicted with mental dyspep.
sia, at any rate they select their diet,
carefully suppressing every thing cal
cnlated to aggravate the ailment. -
Others still, rise superior to facts and
soar away in the fiction Of their self |
constituted capacity of history-mak- |
ers. And "thers are others" not the
least Of which is the "organ" OF some
party or body. It thinks what it's
party thinks, and says what it's party
says. A politician speaks and it
promptly echoes back me too"-
The politician changes his entire
policy and 10! the organ says "That's
what we've always believed"
All these Glasses OF socalled news
papers have their readers. If they
did not their publication would soon
cease. So long as a paper IS paid for
it will continue TO be issued.
But l believe there ia hope in the
outlook. The ne,Cs newspaper "a
daily waxing greater, while the or
gan is on the wane. The indepen.
lent paper inds two readers, where
he partisan political paper fnds one.
Already men are beginning 10 leurn
he lesson Of independence in
hought. Ought not the teacher,
therefore,, the natural leader In edu
'ational thought he quick to grasp
be advantage offered by The rising
ide OF public sentiment in favor cf
current topics, place the newspaper
u the school, and thus give impetus
o the growing demand for better,
'leaner, more historical newspapers?
| would not suppress Que lots of le-
climate news knowledge is power,
'ut knowledge is not always fostered s
y repeating the revolving details OF {
rme. The plain unvarnlshed facts
ecessary 10 clear and lucid under !
landing of an occurrence are all that B
ny healthy intellect should desire,
nd can, / believe, work no HARM I
IN the contrary the suppression in :
ITO OF such matters wonld give tho
esder false idea of life and did d
g suspect the ezpurgstion might Il
reate in him morbid desire In v