New-York tribune., 1901-04-12
EDITORS APPRECIATION
KIND WORDS FROM OUR FELLOWS ov
THE TRIBUNES SIXTIETH
ANNIVERSARY.
From The Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

From The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
l Inns IS Is the the sxteth anniversary Of the establish.
DAY notices the event in a supplement TO t ree.U
lar issue The supplement ab0unds with nicrT1ss
and of the progress of Tne Tribune bur boTb a5s
almost silent concerning anything but the nechani
ring the present Editor and John Hav. who R@t VaS
iEr iSo IA cnsrge Tor period covered by Whiteaw
traits are all pictures of men who are dead. The
with the Editor, help make it, is doubtless due IN
themselves Whiteaw Reid is in MiIlbrae CAL as
were, on the one hand. too good newspaper men 10
let so significant an anniversary pass unnOtced
account of themselves in the notice of il
Much might be written concerning the past Of
The Tribune and its present That. however. is
not necessary. for intelligent papers and people
history of journalism and of the United States not
merely In politics and literature. but in science.
parf3ments part en- OF benign work in the world What
oIred IN S St Heeu not Pc written WOULD not be III
tleth anniversary. which has in the main been on
never on better terms with il. for reasons as com
mendable as they are agreeable Than il is today.
while less of ap organ. is. on that very account
more m re OF a power than II ever was IN the past thar
uniform forces that make Tor the forward move
feetive than i was When It was the especial evan
gel or exponent of one two moving Influences in
ttring Industrious. experienced men and women
content to do their work and not desirous TO shine
or simmer in front of it or 10 beat drums behind
it or alongside OF it, doing good their
day and generation than done by the brilliant
corps of more conspicuous less systematic, less
judictous and more celebrated folk who made jour
naltSm an incident rather than a career. and The
Tribune theatre for their specialties whether of
hate, rather than a great power, great composite
personality in itself. whereby causes aided.
egotism discounted, eccentriCity avoided and re-
suits preferred to recognition or 10 rewards
Not that human nature has changed. but that
cultivation has increased. not that the elders
less worthy than the modernS. but that the latter
have passed within the sweep and sway of laws
which have organized and unified journalism. in
stead of making II effusive egotsm or sporadic
in comparing the present with the past 10 magnify
the past and 70 minimize the present But every
body and everything in the present can, IN the
broad view of the progress OF the race De regard
ed as better than their prior approximate ana
ogues for the world is better government IS better
society is better and humanity IS better now than
ever before since knowledge is more. unSelrShnesS
is more altruisn is more courtesy Is more. and
vanity, vapidity. va9or. viruence and Venahty are
far less
THE Eagle is neither throwing bouquets nor
holding inquestS II what has been said contains
the suggestion OF either the fact out OF the
truth and sincerity Of what has been said and not
out of any Interior intention at all We congratu-
late The Tribune upon its power based on seil-
respect upon its success which malice does nov
belirte and which prescribes we'll adOrns tol-
and efficiency of the workers in AL its manifold
departments, and upon the assured esteem or It's
best contemporaries and the demonstrated support
il receives from the best readers irrespective OF
party as markedly from those who do not agree
with II from those who do.