The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-30
TAYLOR ON JOURNALISM
1ooEoor HAN sFEAKs IN LOUIS
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Gn1e0oms guhscxibsrs to Newspapers lick Because They Get More
 Than the Worth of a Their Money.

&u8tIo0 n. IayiOF, tno puohSucA VI AAso 0ostDn Globe, was the principal speaker at the banquet tonight of the Louisville 8oasd of Trade General Taylor. who is naking his first trip to Kentucky in com pany with Sroup of local business men, Was given hearty welcome by those as- ssmbsed at the banquet. He said:
 Journansm is q topic on which Louis valls of all places should need no in- structiou, but in which she should have hrcud and intelligent interest. Here prouxies, that brilliant pioneer, and a New Hng1An<er lfkc myself, helped blaze ths way for the modern newspaper. and hGfe in true apostolic succession Henry Waktesuon has won honor for my call \ 1ng and renOwn for your city. Among t&o great editors of the old school Colonel vtakfsrson wns tho peer of the greatest. whale wo Of the present day proudly hall rfv6aed leader of our Journalistic 40o.
 IT. ehanes in journalism which has 6uIus during his time and mine was very wo1i described by my old friend. John J1nnal Young, a few years ago. when he Gntd: s-The press is no longer the ex- p1eiun of personal power. Thirty or fortv yuars ago the newspaper was 4sacher. ths voice of one thinker, one I1en1sr How it fs . university. As much fnfal1sct r needed to disseminate jour nal IT to govern Harvard or Yale. The 1v shasts of the earlier days have given nlnce to . daily volume which embodies 9hs esufus of the artist. the writer. the artf6car and tho statesman"
 Hume peop1e complain that our news papers are too large. This objection Is d1f1cnIt to meet, for the simple reason that it is so unusual for customer to mako q fuss because he Is getting too much for his money, There are many lines of business represented here to- ufxirt, but I feel safe in asserting that mine is the only one that has to encoun- ter this kind of faultindfng.
 The newspaper of today is like the bill of fare in a hotel. There is. or should be. a table of contents which shows the reader that which he most desires to read. You do not go into a hotel. pick up the bill of fare begin with the first item and eat right down through and then die of apopIexy. On the contrary, you select what you wish and you should do just the same with newspaper.
 The expanded and expanding newspaper aims to meet the wants of a1I classes. And this is what a small newspaper could not do. It would have no room for the Intelligent presentation of any subject. It could announce that the President of the United States had sent message to Congress- but from lack of space 1t would he unable to tell what he said. It could say that there lad been great debate in the Senate or the House. but 1t could moi tell who spike and what was done. A national political convention might as- serphle but we could not learn from the sr,au uaper how the balloting progressed aud what platform was adopted. Ihe Prime Minister of the British Empire rnieht define his position on some big world question. but the small newspaper would be unable to state what position he had taken
 xrild fiuctuation in market values. but vou could not find out from the small s,ax,er how your interests were affected, because 1t would not have room for the s,ecessary information. You would be ~tartled with the headline on an aw- fuI accident by rail or at sea, but you .>ouyd not learn whether your friends vere lost or saved, because the lists of xhr dead -9nd the rescued would be crowded ont of your small paper A great fire ragged in the city. but you rouId not know where it was and how 1t was met by insurance. because your ~r,aaIl paper would have no space for A ~N.-N-- x,lace. but you wouldn't know whether . vo,,r fayorate won or whether the rec ord was broken. because your small pa- ner would not be equal to an adequate report of the meeting.
 Harvard and Yale have played an excittng football game. but how was 1t ,ron ana who made the score? A small ,,sner could not tell you little things ike that. An immense business failure 7,as occurred, but who failed, for how ,n,,ch he failed and who the creditors are if would be impossible for the small r,aper to tell The social event of the sesson has taken place, but where 1t look place and who were present your wives never would learn from your small paper. The fashions have under zone a radical change, but as to what That change is your daughters could ~ain no hint from the small paper.
 A baseball game has come of, but in xour small paper your boys never would f,nd the score and the story of the runs. A vropderful race has been sailed for the America's cup, but whether and why 4he British or American flag came in ahead you wouldn't know from reading your small paper. Marconi has bound together the hemispheres with chain of lightning, but where he did 1t and how