Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-02
PRETTY TRIBUTE 10 THE PRESS.

TO THE PRESS.
 At a recent banquet in Los Angeles given in honor of Judge D. K. Trask presiding judge of the Los Angeles superior court and former grand chan | cellor of the domain of California i Knights of Pythias. among those who responded to tosxts was Rev. Robert J. Burdette His subject was The | Press" and he spoke as follows: "Thackeray has said it for all time end to the despair of every man who sits down to write or rises to speak ! about The Press Pendennis and Warrington are walking home in tn gray of the morning-the pallor of the dead yesterday which no one inl all the world knows quite so well as, morning newspaper men. They are going to their rooms in the Temple from 8 meeting of the Back Kitchen Club in the Fielding's Head. Pass ing through the Strand as they talk they go by a newspaper office, still brilliantly lighted. Reporters are coming out of the place or rushing lip to it in cabs; there are lamps burning in the editors room, and above the compositors are at work; the windows of the building are a blaze of gas.
 Look at that. Pen said Warning ton; there she is; the great engine; she never sleeps. She has her am bassadors in every portion of the world-oficers march along with ar mics; her euvoys walk into states mems cabinets. They are ubiquitous. Wonder journal has an agent at this ainute giving bribes at Madrid; an other inspecting the price of pOta- toes in Coyeut Garden Look! Here comes the foreign express galloping in They will be able to give news tt Downing street tomorrow; funds vii rise or fall: fortunes be made or lost Lord B. will get up, and holding the paper in his hand, and seeking the noble marquis in his place, will mak q great speech
 And yet Thackeray never saw in aM his life. even in London. the worlds metropolis, such newspaper offices as we have here in Los An geles. He never saw 9 prophecy O such presses; he never heard a story come in by telegraph or telephone The foreign express galloping up; re porters in cabsl 4 reporter on any paper in Los Angeles who should takt 2 cab-a plaza hack, if you will, be cause he was in hurry would be sen to Highland For him the time de stroying trolley or the space deyour ing buzz wagon. or scorning these -ami-obsolete, patience-wearing plod dersof slowness. he wakes the in stantaaeous telephone with wrathfu psrenthesis at sleeping Central
 She never sleeps It seems t rs, looking back at the press O Thackeray's day, that it did nothing but sleep. What else could there b for a newspaper to do, after the shil came in with news only thirty-tw days from New York and six month Trez2 California;
 eEreater than it's direct influence, seems to me, is the unconscious il huenee of the press. For example.
 sewspaper that Is known to be tn organ of a party, faction or interes is influential only within the finite sghere of it's own coterie. Beyond certain bound it's word is discrediteC it's statements are discounted.
 The newspaper has an infuenc greater than it's arguments. That wty So few men stop their favorit paper when they get mad at it. Tn SpnngaelS Republican, in Samu' Bsries' day, had a character like
 maa. Not a reputation, but a cha acter. When 1t mngwumped 1t carrie g very few of it's readers with 1t int that strange freakIand of mugwuml err, But it lost very few subscriber WAea Horace Greeley accepted th neuiaatiOn Of the enemy for Pres aest, the subscribers of the Ne Yosk Tribune went back on the D peT's new and mlsft principles, U