Evening journal., 1904-09-27

plete and thorough news record pub
lished in any language. Its law re-
ports, written by barristers of stand
ing, are essential to all English law
yers. Its accounts Of parliament form
convenient reference for public and
private libraries throughout the world.
In every department it gives a full re-
port Of what has happened.
The paper was started in 1855 under
the name Of the Daily Universal Reg
lister, which was changed to the Lon
don Times in 17Ss. In 1903 it began its
great development under John Wal
ter.
1t is no vain compliment to say that
the Times is part of British civiliza-
tlon. For over a hundred years it has
belonged, with the Established church
and the British constitution, to the his
toric greatness Of the race.
"You cannot buy the Times" its ed
itor proudly said when a powerful
man sought TO silence its thunder, and
the words might well be written in let
ters of gold across the portal Of Print
ing House square. You cannot buy the
Times.
Lord Randolph Churchill in that dra-
matte moment when, locking up the
wonderful budget which nobody has
ever seen, he stepped for the last time
out Of the treasury in Whitehall, hailed
hanson and drove TO the office of the
Times. In ten minutes he was in the
editors room telling the editor the
news which was next morning to star
tie the political world.
"Of course you will support me-
Lord Randolph said in his own way.
mo-" said the editor, while Lord
Randolph stood aghast.
But there is not another paper in
England which would not be grateful
for such a piece of information" ex.
claimed the wondering statesman. and
| the editor agreed. But would Lord
/ Randolph take the news to any other
/ paper? He might do so, and not a
word should appear in the Times the
next day. Lord Randolph left his Sc
cret with the Times and left the office
we may be sure, rejecting on the won.
derful character of the one thing In the
world which no man could buy. The
Times the next morning reproved him
severely for desertlng his colleagues.
1t has been so from the beginning
The Times was a child Of four wher
its founder, the first John Walter wai
/ put into jail for censuring the Duke oi
York. But they could not imprison th'
Times, and even while John Waite
was in Newgate he was sentence,
, again for severely criticising tn
Prince Of Wales and accusing the Duk
of Clarence Of leaving his ship withOu
: leave.
The government withdrew its adveI
tisements and its printing contracts
but the Times went on its incorruptibl
way. 1t made cabinets and brok
them. exposed plots and averted them
At least once, at a cost of 5000 tn
Times nipped in the bud an interna
tional conspiracy which might hav,
ruined half the banks in Europe, an,
there are two Scholarships in Londol
schools endowed by a thanksgiving
fund then raised to the Times.
When the railway mania was at II
highest the Times sacrificed a fortun
in advertisements by denouncing tn
spirit of recklessness which was abroad
and neither the penalties of the law
the enmities Of statesmen nor the los
of revenue has availed against tn
fearless determination Of the Times I
say the thing it thinks.
There were dramatic spectacles a
times, when the great newspape
fought not only its own but fOreig
governments. Napoleon himself, VIII
feared an editor more than an army,
said to have wanted to bring an actio
for libel against the Times, and Gu
zot, the French minister of a later day
did more. To punish the Times for il
unfriendliness he detained its courie
in Paris, delaying its dispatches. Bu
the ingenuity OF John Walter II. wa
! too much for him.
t The situation In India was grave
y and the Times established an Overlan
route to England without touchin
France The Indian mail was hande
to a messenger at Suez, the messengt
rode on a dromedary 200 miles to Ale'
. andria and there handed his packet
a passenger on an Austrian steamt
, bound for Triest. Thence the PR
) ciOus packet was dispatched via o.
5 tend to Dover, where a special trai
waited to bring it up TO London.
= The French minister was angry an
= made another move. Special trair