Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-02-24

: saying just the opposite of what We
did say. and there * a small riot of
sgnicolons and hyphcns and commas,
and We come to write or talk about
the "hlundcring printing press" or we
I tals" up newspaper full "f social
scandal and of eases of divorce and W.
write or talk about IA filthy. Scurril-
Gus printing press" But this morning
| ask You Ia consider the immcaNur-
I able and everlasting blessing of Il good
newspaper.
find no difficulty in accounting for
the worlds advance. What ha, made
the change" Hooks" You say. No
sir. The vast ma inrity of citizens
do not READ books. Take this
audience. or any other prnmis-
cunu~ a>>rmhlawr. and how many his.
tories have they rcadH How many
trratiNcS on constitutional law, or pn-
ltIcal economy, or works of science?
How many rlahnra = poems or books
Of travel" Not many. In the United
States tn people would not average
one such huuil u year for each indiVid-
ual, NhcUcr, then, this intelligence,
this capacity To- talk about all themes,
secular and religious, this acquaint-
ancc with science and art; this power
To appreciate the beautiful and
grand? Next To the Blbl" the new spa
pr. swift winged and everywhere
present. dying over the fence, showed
under the door, TOSSED into the count
ing hru>'. laid On thc work bench.
hawi>ca through the ears, All read il;
white ami black. herman, freshman,
Swiss, Spauiard, American, old and
young, cool and bad. sick and well,
before breakfast and after tea. Mon
day morning. saturday night, sunday
ami week day. now declare that |
consider the newspaper Ia he the grand
AGENCY 10y which Tia, Gospel is To- bc
preached. ignorance east ont, oppression
uctEruncd. crime cNtirpatrd, the world
raised. Heaven rcjoiccd and God glori-
I fed. In the clanking of the printing
press, as the sheets fly out, hear the
voice of the Lord Almighty proclaim
inT to all the dead nations of the earth,
Lazarus, come forth" and to the re-
treating SurgcS of darkness, LET there
hc light!' In many of our city news
papers, protesting no more than secu-
lar information, there have appeared
during the past 80 years some of the
grandcst appeals in behalf of religion,
and some of the most effective inter
preta, ions of Gods government among
the nations.
There are only two kinds of news
papcrS-thc one good, very good; the
other had. very bad. \ newspaper
may he started with an undecided
character. hut after it has been going
ON for years everybody find, out lust
what it j.; and it is very good or it is
very bad. The one paper is the rmbod-
imrnt of news. the ally of virtue, the
foe of crime the dclrctation of cl-
cVated taste. the mi~hticst agency ON
earth for making the world better
The other paper is a brigand among
moral forces; il is "A bcslimcr of rep
utation. il is the right arm of death
| and hell, it is the mighticst agency
in the universe for making the
world worse and battling against the
cause of God. The one is an angel
of intelligence and mercy. and the 9TH
cr ticnd of darkness Between the
Archangcl and this Fury is To bc fought
the great battle which is to decide the
fate of the world. Ii you have any
doubt Is To which is to he victor. ask the
prophcsics. ask God; the chief batter
les with which lie would vindicate the
right and thunder down the wrong are
now unlimhcrcd. The great Armaged-
don of the nations is not to be fought
!, 1,
with bullets. but with type; not with
cannon, but with lightning perfccting
presses: and the Sumters, and Moul-
tries, and the Pulasllis, and the Gibral-
tarS of that conflict will be
the editorial and reportorial rooms
of our great newspaper establishments.
Men of the press, tod has put a more
stupendouS responsibility upon you
than upon any other class of persons.
What long strides your profession hal
made in influence and power since the
day when Peter Schaeffer invented
east metal type, and because two books
were found just alike they We're
ascribed to the work of the devil; and
books were printed on strips of bam-
hoo; and Rev. Jesse Glover originated
the first American printing press: and
the common council of New York, in
solemn resolution. offered 5000 to any
printer who would come there and
live: and when the speaker of the
house of parliament in England an
nounced with Indignation that the
( public prints had recognized some of
their doings, until in this day, when
we have in this country many thou
sands of skilled stenographers, and
newspapers sending out copies by the
| billion. The press and the telegraph
have gone down into the same great
I harvest field to reap. and the telegraph
, says To the newspaper, III rake,
/ while you bind;' and the iron teeth of
the telegraph are set down at one end
| of the harvest field and drawn clean
across, and the newspaper gathers
NJ the sheaves, setting down one
: sheaf on the breakfast table in the
/ shape of morning newspaper, and
putting down another sheaf on the tea
table in the shape OF an evening news
! paper: and that man who neither reads
nor takes newspaper would be n curl
osity. What vast progress since the
days when Cardinal Wolsey declared
that either the printing press must &c
down or the Church of God must 90
down, to this time, when the printing
press and the pulpit are in glorious
! combination and alliance
One of the great trials of this news
paper profession is the fact that they
are compelled to see more of the shams
of the world than any other profess
, sion. Through every newspaper Office,
day by day, go the weakness of the
world, the vanities that want to be
/ pulled. the rcvenges that want to
/ be wreaked, all the mistakes that
want to be corrected, all the dull
speakers who want to be thought
eloquent, all the meanness that wants
! to get its wares noticed gratis in the
editorial columns in order to save the
! tax of the advertising column, all the
men who want to be set right who
never were right, all the cracll-brained
philosophers, with story as long as his
hair and as gloomy as their finger
nails, all the itinerant bores, who
come to stay five minutes and stop an
hour. From the editorial and re-
portorial rooms all the follies