The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-08-17

the practices for which he was lr1-
peached. tragic destiny which broke
Pitts heart. It was the Times which
startled the world one morning by an
nouncing that Peel would repeal the
corn laws. 1t was the Times which
published the Berlin treaty in London
two hours before it was signed IN Ber-
lin. It was the Times correspondent
in Paris to whom Alfonso NIL, leaning
against the mantelpiece IN his study,
told the story of the coup d'etat in
Madrid which had made him king Of
Spain.
It was il the Times that Charles
Dickens wrote the burning letters
which brought an end to public execu-
tons. 1t was in the Times that Lord
Brougham, Macaulay, Disraeh, Dean
Stanley, Cardinal Newman and host
Of famous men-were proud to write.
1t was the Times that saved the
world from one Of the greatest catas-
trophies that could have occurred in
modern Europe. All the world knows
the story now, but the thought of the
French scare sends a thrill through the
chancelleries even today. 1t was Bis
marck who this time was behind the
Times-Bismarck, the founder Of the
German empire, who saved that en-
pire from itself and revealed to the
correspondent of the Times the terrible
plot which would have crippled France
a second time.
Jealous of Moltke and perhaps hon
estly detesting his fendish conspiracy
against a conquered foe rapidly regain
ing her strength, Prince Bismarck let
Blowitz know, and Blowitz, the Paris
echo Of the Voice Of Europe" told 1t
to the world. Those who remember
the middle seventies remember yet the
effect Of the thunderbolt which the
Times hurled against Count yon
Moltke.
The Times has missed its chance
sometimes. In 1892 its editor received
a long letter forecasting the alliance OF
Russia and France, but as nobody but
the writer seemed to believe it the edi-
tor kept it back until 1897, when 1t
announced, with the rest Of the papers,
that the Franco-Russian alliance was
an established fact.
If it has lost prestige in error 1t mas
sacrificed itself not once or twice, but
many times, for peace and the welfare
of the world. One Of the most graphic
stories in journalism is Of the foreign
minister who sent for the Times cor
respondent and shouted challenge to
England in his ears, who fourished a
bundle Of kilograms in the Journalist 8
face and declared that 80 should
pay for it." The correspondent went
not TO the telegraph Office, but to bed,
and the world was no wiser the next
morning for the angry. scene OF the
night before, which, had been known,
almost certainly must have caused
war.
It is something surely to have record
ed for so many years the affairs Of the
whole world. II is something more to
have been through all these genera
tions a fearless critic Of princes and
kings and the enemy Of wrong.
eve thundered forth the other day"
wrote Captain Sterling in a Leader
which give the Times its nickname,
"an article on the subject OF social and
political reform" and the Times is
Numbering forth" still. The world
has changed, and the Times moves
with the times, but its ancient glory
has not passed, and there is not hV-
ing Englishman who would gladly let
die the wonderful paper which gives
us today and builds up for poster1ty
the history of the world while it is be
ing made.-London Mail.