The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1900-05-05

| impossible to inaugurate any me-
, movement, any reform, any radic9
change in conditions without 81
curing the cooperation of the pull
lie press. There il no other wa
equally successful INFRINGING tt
gether under one banner all o
those having common interest
that il may be desired to unite. II
matters Of politics, religion. medi
cine, law, military, or industrial
the public press becomes absolute
, ~ essential in the study of new
views, the suggestion Of new me
thods, this nnitication Of popular
opinion and the concentration %
public attention upon the Difficult
| ties involved and the advantage.
to be gained in the movements
contemplated. AS in our indus
trial lives we find vast amounts OF
valuable material unused, or going
to waste, so IN our intellectual lives
we find vast amounts Of knowledge
which if utilized and applied in
the proper direction would be
beneficial to all concerned. The
public press serves as means Of
bringing out all of these latent
forces in the community, either by
direct appeal, or by that gradually
elevating effect among the masses
which leads the masses among
themselves to the utilization of the
data constantly provided for their
intellectual digestion and assimi-
lation.
The press does not posses its
power because of any infallibility,
but for reasons that we have here
IN endeavored to express. simply
because it represents as nearly as
it can u large section of pubic
opinion. The journal that does
this the best in the most effective:
that which does it the least il, of
course the least effective in the
direction Of the work which il may
have in hand.
II is stated, believe by the
late Mr.. Dana, 80 long the editor
and proprietor Of the New York
Sun, that he had IN his employ
one reporter who cou i scarcely
write y single aragraph in good
English; reporter whose " rk
would never pass muster without
extremely car, FIJI editing. Aud
yet this was the man who was en-.
trusted with the most delicate
mission, the one who would always
be assigned to the most difficult
place, And wh,2 eimply because he
could see the things that the people
wa1ied to see, he could see those
things in which tley were Tho most
int re-tej, Those were the things
that inter sted him, and his mind
grasped them; took. the. ali IN,
and IN his perhaps rude sort of way.
be would write aureport aud hand
1t IN to be rewritten, but To retain
~ far ~ possible that clearness OF
expression, that fulIness oil descrtp.
ton that he alone could give in the
work. An editor who car, thus see.
IN public affairs, those things that
his readers want him 10 soc, who
can perceive more quickly than
Others aad more fully thin Others
the trend Of affairs, VIII 4. Judge.
ment il sufficiently sound to warrant
the concurrence of large section
81 the people IN his views. such al
editor becomes p1wer in mo Iapd |
aud yet It the views hereia stated Sc
correct, = power only il a represent.
alive way; he represents the mass of |
opin on behind him, he iorinula,,s
the views OF the people better than
they tan formulate these yipv OIL
The people better than they can for.
Innlate these views themselves. and |
vet they are the views Of the cop &.
II is often said that married men
.nd women come to look alike. at
east those that are happily married.
Their views are 20 nearly alike,
hey are 70 In the habit 81 looking
i the affairs If life from the same
,oInt Of view, # in The habit oil
gree!ng upon ey.rs ,rsue that il
PRESENTED 10 them that the came