Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-23

Newspapers Of The Present Day Are
Filled With Vitupsration.

Newspapers Of tho Present Day Are
Filled With Vitupsration.
SOME RICH EPITHETs-oNL A FEW
JOURNALS THAT ARE CAREFUL
IN REGARD 10 THE LANGUAGE
THEY USE-A FEW SAMPLES OF
WHAT THE PARTISAN PUBLIC
BUYS. PAYS FOR. AND READS.
Correspondence of Philadelphia Inquirer.
London, October 19.-Do you recall
Thac!zeray's description of when Pen
dennis and Warrington went to the
back kitchen ad found Mr.. Doolan, of
the Radical Dawn, eating chop in
company with Mr.. Hoolan, of the Tory
Day. The respective papers were ~
ing on the table. The fist of them
had an article in which the gentlemen
Of the Day were referred to as rep
tiles and assassins, perjurers and cow
ards, hired cut-throats, and black
visaged rufians" 1.-THE reptile who
signs the forged name Of Trefoil. but
whom we will unmask," said the DARN,
ais at present one of the chief DULLES
and braves in our contemporary es-
tablishment. He is the eunuch who
brings the bowstring, and strangles at
the order Of the Day. We can convict
this cowardly slave and propose to do
so. The charge he has brought against
Lord Bangbanag CHER. because he is an
Irish peer, and against the Board OF
Poor Law Guardians of the Bangban-
agher Union" ETC., etc.
''How did they like the article at
your place, Mick?" asks the one jour-
nslist
1.-THE taste for eloquence is
going out, Mick. That was fine writ
ing when the doctor wrote in the
Phaynix, and he and Condy Rooney
blazed away at each other day after
day, and with powder and shot, too, as
well as ink. Faith the doctor was cut
twice and Condy Rooney winged his
man."
That picture of English journalism,
as it existed sixty years ago, is per-
feet picture of Partisan Journalism to-
day. No che would say that the pic
ture of English journalism as drawn
by Thackeray is true or anything
which exists in London to-day. 1t is
a picture of the past, and belongs to
q time when gentlemen got drunk and
rolled under their hosts dinner table.
1t belongs to the past, as far as London
is concerned, but quite to the present
as far as Paris is concerned.
The average modern Partisan news
paper could give either the ''Day" or
the Dawn" a good many points in
newspaper Billingsgate and then win
hands down. There are few papers,
Hike the Temps Zone of the best pa
pers in the world) and the Debats,
which are exempt from the evils, but
those two, with possibly one or two
exceptions, do not constitute the read
ing matter of the mass of the French
people. The great mass-nineteen-
twentieths certainly-read newspapers
of the character of the Petit Journal,
the Libre Parole Of Drumont, the In
transigeant of Rochefort, the defender
of the army; the Patrie and a host of
others of like nature, and they read
that kind of newspaper only.
1t is almost impossible to give Amer
ical readers true idea of the tone
which obtains in the Paris popular
press. To begin with, terms of con-
tempt are infinitely more plentiful in
the French than in the English lam
guage, and at times of any excitement
news is all but disposed with.
Take, for instance, the Intransigeant,
which claims, and probably has, cir
culation of a. quarter of million. A
copy which is typical of the general run,
is made up as follows: 1t has three
pages of matter in addition to adver-
tisements. The first two columns Of
the front page are taken up with Roche
forts article. It commences in this
fashion: "Huguenot Pressense, whose
brain has been turned to holy water by
the eligioso-Protestant education given
by the white-liverel pastor, his father,
has made of the Dreyfus affair church
question. Then professors of Judaism,
like the sinking Boule-de-Juif nephew
and son-in-law of the unclean rascal
with whom he conspired to poison our
army by means of coffee mixtures,
which diabolical plot was only frus-
trated by the vigilance of General Bou-
LANCER -" And so on through two
columns in large type. The Pressense
referred to is tn chief editor of the
Temps, a man of exceptional gifts, Of
broad and enlightencde mind, and ole
of the best scholars of the English Ian
guage, politics and Institutions in