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LECl IRE ON JOURNALISM.
SECOND ADDRESS By DIR. NC
KELWAY LAST EVENING,


Editor of Brooklyn Eagle Received by
Enthusiastic Audienee--The Reporter
as Statesman, MoraIist, Artist and
Diplomatist-The Relation of the
Press to Society Also Discussed.
The second and last of the Bromley
lectures on Journalism was given last
evening by st. Clair McKelway, editor
of the Brooklyn Eagle, in Lampson
lyceum. There was present a select but
small audience. BY the number out it
seems as if the students and people of
New Haven do not highly appreciate
these free lectures by one of the lead
ing authorities on such subjects in the
country. The aspect Of journalism dis
cussed last night by DR.: McKelway was
1.-THE Press: It's Relations to Politics
and Society The speaker was intro
duced by Arson Phelps Stokes, secre-
tary Of the university, and started his
speech as follows:
, My Friends-In my talk here last
week spoke about Journalism in its
relation to public business, to private
business and to public business. STo-
hight wish to talk to you about jour
nalism itself and to resist the ternpta-
ton Of every man to exalt his calling,
if he be an enthusiast; sor to depreciate
It, If he be a critic. Let us look at
facts as they are A Newspaper prima-
rily exists to make people acquainted
with their wants. their ways and their
wares. 1t builds on that an appeal to
their duties and to their interests. That
appeal is within the limitations Of its
conductors or of any special reasons
which they may have IN addressing the
community.
1--WE will understand one another
/ best if when I talk about journalism
and you think about is, as we carry the
same kind our minds. The kid should
be daily journalism. 1t hould be the
Journalism of news and opinions. The
many other kinds, trade journalism
scientific journalism, ssnedicall journal
ism, and the like. not only fall outside
+ of daily journalism, but are also con-
cerned with specialties. This other
sort of journalism is well enough, but
1t is not what you think about moi
what think about when we say jour
nalism. The words The Press do moi
suggest 1t, and we should not be drawn
away from what those words do sug-
gest. The words to you and me sug-
gest the daily newspaper. 1t may be
an evening daily or a morning daily, Oh
both. That is detail and not impor-
tant.
COMMON LIKENESS OF ALL DIAL
LY JOURNALISM.
Now let me go a step farther. Ev.
cry daily newspaper has characteristics
common with every other Neither
size nor circulation affects those, char
acteristics. The metropolitan daily
and the country daily both seek tt
bring the news important and interest.
& ing to their differing constituency be.
fore their readers They both seek tC
bring before their readers the com.
ments which grow out of such news
/ The tests which moral qualities supply
to that work are unaffected by re-
sources of by circulation. The news
paper which is financially rich are
tempted at like points, and not always
without sin. The most frequent temp.
lotion to which they are exposed grows
out Of the conflict between saying what
ought to be said and saying what theii
readers may prefer. In the case of the
larger and the prosperous daily the
wish to augment resources will be the
temptation"
Continuing Mr.. McElroy illustrated
the h,lmbug Of supposing that because
a man or prosperous wealthy venalitJ
cannot be attributed to either, saying
that he had never known venality tt
be effected by anything but character
and illustrated this by relating charae'
teristics of the late William M. Tweed
in regard to his insistence upon hi
share of illicit gains for legislative OF
executive wickedness as the mos
needy robber in his train, when finan
cial circumstances touched the bottom
Of exigency, '...'
DIR. McKelway olso spoke interesting
ly of the prejudices, weaknesses ant
masterful virtues Of Horace Greeley, o
his prejudices and conviction that {
liberal education was drawback il
newspaper work. of his reasons TO-
this belief and how he lived to see hi
paper manned by college GRADUATES
and to see them touch even in his tim,
, the SUBMITS of eminence in the depart
ments committed to their charge, ant
hew he himself finally became an in
spring speaker to college audiences
and a welcome guest on college occa
sions.
In speaking on some press person
ages DR.. McKelway said that there ar,
conspicuous examples Of men in news
paper life who have raised reporting Il
the Nth power, saying:
This leads me to say that there ar,
conspicuous examples of men in news
paper life who have raised reporting t,
the Nth power. They are not NOR,