The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-19
ENGLISH AS SHE Is EDITED.
A Few Specimens of What the Lam
Gungc Can BE Made to Do In u
Masters Hand.

"A re" specimens OF What the Lam
Gunge Can BE Made to Do In IA
Masters Hand.
From the New York Tribune
As rule it does no good to tell The pub
lie all the little details, the struggles and
the worries of getting a newspaper to-
gether. The public sees the general re-
suit. If it is good on the whole, the pub
lie is fortunate If it has faults, nothing
is gained by pointing them out when they
might otherwise pass unnotced. But
there are times when, with sufficient
object, an Office secret may be revealed.
For instance, as a nation cannot wait
to build battleships after a war has be-
gun, but must go ahead with the ships
that it has, so in war times writer for
newspaper cannot always watch his words
as carefully as if he were editing vol
une of sermons. And thus even the spe-
cial correspondent of the Tribune at Tam
pa the other day in one of his dispatches
made a slight-oh, a very slight-slip in
his English. Realizing when he became
caimer that even this little thing would
excite remark among the members of the
staff, he sent an explanation, which was
to the effect thar the English at Tampa
was by no means such a hldebound affair
as that of New York. In proof he submit
ted certain selections from the editorials
of a Tampa newspaper They seem fully
TO prove the case. You will note the
ideas, as well as the words" says the cor
respondent. OF course, anybody would
try to do that but when the words are so
beautiful it is not easy to draw the atten-
ton away from them to any mere ideas.
Here is passage, for example, in which
| the reader viii perhaps find something re-
laling to the future of Tampa. On the
other hand, perhaps he VIII not; still, if
there is any such thing there he is likely
to find it:
Certainly emoiument cannot be achieved
through the supervision of affairs by the
backward looking, the incorrigible, nor the
charlatan, and it behooves the community
to regard with unlimited assiduity every
detail in the conducting of both municipal
and business pursuits. Special attention
should be devoted against the adoption of
any narrow, discriminating, selfish or un-
| lateral business system, as no other
course would be near as instrumental in
repulsing the beneficient effects that are
now being attracted to Tampa and Viciu-
ity. No explanation could be sufficient rep
aratjon on the part of either of these au-
diences if they fail, through an indiscre-
ton in their purpose of placing Tampa a
the acme of Florida cities and creating of
her the citadel for which business has
been striving ever since the opening up of
the resources of the South. Let not the
improper contingency of these audiences
shatter the presaged hopes, but in impune
actions of the correct divisions produce of
| Tampa, through this opportunity condi-
ton of industrial and business prosperity
that will ever remain a Vistage of the
| present possibilities.
Some of the experts of this office think
that the following passage is aimed al
certain newspapers, which are afflicted
with self senatorian sycophancy," but
others believed that nothing of the kind is
| intended:
An eminent Greek philosopher produced
a maxim to the effect that self seAtorian
| sycophancy, rigid criticisms of others and
| vanity, ere the inVariable companions of
inability, egotism and failure. Could that
| philosopher arise to-day he would see that
personifed coquetling for public patron
| age, Scarcely a day passes without edi-
| torial columns devoted to self education
of supposed merits which have not pre-
scented themselves in conspicuous enough
| proportion TO attract comment or consid-
Grafton from those whom a compliment
should arise in order to carry with it any
recommendation calculated to be of sery-
ice IN the world of letters.
| But there is no doubt that the follow
! ing paragraph contains singing rebuke
| nay, it may be called an explosive rebuke:
| oOAliS papers uepeHd upon tne support of
inflated bladders as do fishes. when sport
ing in the summer seas, and like them
should these burst will be left to the
| mercy of the angry waves of public indig-
nation for their safety.
Here Is touch on a timely topic which
| should teach consideration for enemies. or
! anything else that the reader can find in
| it:
There is much in the present war with
| SPAN that appeals to the sentimental side
| OF historical epochs. 1t must be remem-
Dered that one who was considered a
| dreary quiXotic sailor wandered over all
nations of Europe and that il was Spain
| VINO at last furnished means with which
| to discover the country that in four centu-
ries has been ruled, ruined by. and finally
arises 20 chastise the nation who gave it's
! Whereabouts to the world Spanish greed
| too, has been the source of many toucbl
| ing incidents in the country which ia TO
DAY removing that Power from the west
| ern continent Poor Ponce de Leon went
| down in his sterile effort TO find the Edo
RADIO, and DeSoto, after wandering wears
in search of the fountain of youth. at LAST
! found a watery grave in the Missssippi
So thus. It's but a step from the Iudicrous
| to the sublime.
Anybody who has gone through all this
| VIII be fully able to appreciate the closing
| paragraph:
The veritable perfection of speech is adj
mired as magnificent art. but the chon-
per OF woods is the man whose mouth is