The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-10
aWIRE ALL THAT
MAKES FOR WAR"
Archbishop John ireland Scores
Yellow Journalism.
ATTENDANCE VERY LARGE
aTHE NEWSPAPER IS TODAY THE
MENTOR OF THE PEOPLE"

NJ INNEAPoLIS, July 9-IIigh water
M mark IN the attendance at the Ma
A'A tional Educational association con-
vention has probably been reached. and
il is undoubtedly the record for numbers
present at any meeting of the association
vet held. A conservative estimate would
place the number of visitors in the city
today as considerably over 10000.
The department meetings We're all well
attended today and there were fifteen
of them. Tomorrow there will be thlr-
teen meetings and on Friday. when the
convention closes, there will be twelve
The feature OF the day was the great
meeting of the general association tonight
in the Exposition building. The attend
anCe did not fall far short of 10000 peo-
pie. DR.. Michael Ernest Sadler, director
of INQUIRIES and reports OF the educa-
ton office. London, was the tlrst speaker
and taking as his theme Hope" for
nearly an hour held his audience with
thoughtful and scholarly address.
The principal address of the session was
delivered by Archbishop John ireland OF
St Paul. The well known churchman
and orator was given warm reception
by the great assemblage-
Devotion TO the Truth, the Chief Vir-
tue OF the Preacher was the subject OF
the archbishop's address
Particular interest was shown in the
archbishOps reference to the Spanish
American war, and to conditions IN tne
Philippines. He said in part
II am one Of those who see in the Sc
quence of the late SpanlSn-Amerfcan war
the guiding hand of a mighty providence,
and the outburst OF forces long gathering
in the bosom Of the nation sure at one
moment or another to break out IN re-
sistless self-assertion. Nevertheless,
shall never deny that among the immedl-
ate causes of the war there are TO De
numbered the exaggerated statements, the
lies. too, and the cslumnies, the ceaseless
appeals TO wild and reckless passion
which disfigured and disgraced the ut
terances of certain newspaper writers
oe other maniDula1OrS OF
public opinion.
instructions to Correspondent.
'I know for fact that the instructions
going from the office of a newspaper to
It's European correspondent read;
Wire all that makes for war, noJn-
ing that tends to prevent or delay it
Grave indeed. were the causes, de-
manding from America a solemn act;
strong were the provocatons gwen 10
ruffle the national temper, yet we can
never approve the methods in when
falsehood and passion play a large part;
and we cannot but assert that 1t We're
Immensely batter for the country If re-
suits attained through war should nave
been attained without the carnage and
How unguarded and reckless, and how
reprehensibie many statements published
at the present time as from the Pnllp-
pines purpOrting to tell of dreadful deeds
of cruelty and injustice, for whtch, or
close examination, no foundation IN 1acl
Is found. l shall name IN TINS conneGtl92I
"A little while ago certain Catholic
newspapers raised the cry that proselyt-
ism was the order of the day in tins
schools Of Manila. The chief OFFICIALS. i
was said. and the teachers in the norma
1gere regularly ordained ministers. WHIT
Iivided their time between the multlplt
cation table and tract reading.
''The matter was investigated and !
was discovered that the chief Officials
and the teachers in the normal were no
ministers and that their own good sense
as well as the strict rules of the govern
rnent confined them strictly to secuia
matters The newspapers which had ad
rnitted into their columns such statement
have since, indeed. repudiated them bu
meanwhile much needless excitement Wa
raised and much harm done
Truth Should Prevail.
IF I were TO choose where, outside tn
class ROOM for the general welfare o
humanity continued the archbishop. "
should have devotion TO truth prevail.
should name the newspaper. The news
paper Is today pre-eminently the mento
of the people. 1t is read by all 1t /
believed by nearly all. Its influence
paramount; its responsibility is tremen
ious; its province is to narrate facts, {
give the truth, nothing but the truth, an
all the truth TO allow both parties 70
controversy to be heard-never to palliat
or distort. Never to omit when tina
which is omitted may be of relevancy i
the formation of public opinion; never
publish the doubtful ascertainment G
mere gossip as well asceTtained news
never above all else. to put before read
ers error and falsehood. Facts giveI
the editor is at liberty TO argu
from them il his own tenets. and eve
then let there be radiant through limpi
lines the fair love of truth, rather tina
the wish 10 eXtol party or sect.
Journalism that is honest and honor
able is one of the nations most preciou
inheritances: that which places notoriet
and pelf above truth and virtue an
adopts as it's tactics of war the stunnin
sensation rather than the calm statemer
of facts, Is one of the nations dires
calamities Numerous in America is tt
Journalism which is honest and honol
able: here and there is found that whic
worships. above all else, notoriety an
pelf. There is here duty of cOnscienC
and of patriotism for Americans. Ma
they ever be mindful of that duty"