The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1899-08-17
MODERN JOURNALISM.

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AM essay read by Mrs J. A. H..
B6rlf at the JOURNAL corresponds.
1entsl picnic;
Modern journalism is the off,
sprlnk Of the Federal constitutions.
It Is Ndfficult to- conceive Of a.
more Extensive power than that Of
Jour'i ism We feel in our hearts
whgst power modern journalism
ha Is it today rallying the de-
lenders of justice Git is in it's
power TO do SOY or is it sacrificing
its politics to it's principles ?
Present expediency and mutual
federation in journalism will over
throw this nation, if the unedu-
Gated commonwealth sees this
monster creeping and making void
the institution of the United
States, which every boy and girl
of my school days were taught to
memorize and love, after the ten
commandments, then the consti-
tuition. If the nation of COM
moners realize the shadow, I call
IN vain upon modern journalism
to sacrifice all minor questions
and come out and rally to the
standard of the defenders of JUS
tice, If there are any here today
who can say, / am an American
with patriotic sentiments as strong
as those of any American citizen,
let all such give their aid, and
turn that Dewey engine, modern
journalism, against trusts, COM
bines and syndicates, turn TO the
constitution and uphold the peo-
pie against mammon sacrifice.
France is agitating the civilized
world today over the torture of
Dreyfus, while modern journal
ism is just awakening and calling
i'll very weak voice to the pres
ent administration to no longer
offer up to sacrifice our own sons
and fathers in tropical islands to
crafty the mistaken ideas of the
administrations policy, brought
on by the business elements
known as trusts, combines and
syndicatesl We, the people, cry
aloud for help, but we are offered
up as dumb beasts Oh the altar of
mammon. We are walled in by q
mighty wall, and our Egyptian
task-masters, the trusts, look
down on us as we toll up and down
the rows of cotton, and sing to
each other by telegraphic power,
Grind them down; last year 4
icents, next crop 3 centsl'
Yes, money owns journalism.
Honest patriotism is dead. We
have almost strangled honor, and
juctice sleeps. Yes, all power is
ours, for without the aid of the
press no voice of today can be
heard.
But the possibilities of modern
journalism are hope and a Joy
to contemplate. 1t is greatly
turning. 1t is the all powerful
Of earth, the Dewey engine undep
the sun. 1t can drive out the
task-masters, it can staunch the
flow of American blood in the
Philippines, it can annul obnox-
ious laws, it can settle questions
odious to free government, it can
lead the campaign opposing the
expensive, unsatisfactory and de-
plorable dictatorship that rules
us today We of the South beg
ged the pitiful boon of choosing
which ones of us may be our
postmasters in our walled in and
tax-ridden land, but the voice of
the dictatorial administration
answers us with Boston journal
ism: 'We will rule the South
with an iron hand.''
The majority of power of Jour-
nalism is owned by Hydra-headed
trusts, but there are enough left
who would repent and turn from
evil and rally the defenders of the
constitution of American liberty
Who shall call them ? Our hope
is the voice of modern journalism.
1t alone can batter down the walls
that mammon has steadily closed
around us. Where is the landed
inheritance for the little. children
| here to day ? Thousands and tens
of thousands of acres bought with
the patriotic blood of our grand.
| fathers on the battlefields of the
| Revolution now owned by trusts
and combines, contrary to oul
laws. But the tide is turning
What is this power, our only ref
uge, journalism? Honest jour.
nalism. will it come and save
| us 2 1t is beginning to look
upon our misfortunes, to come
| to a study of the situation
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