New-York tribune., 1905-03-07
MR.. M'KELWAY'S ADDRESS,
Second Lecture tn Bromley Course
at Yale.

New-Haven. Conn.,. March 6.-st. Clair McKelway
Editor OF The Brooklyn Daily Eagle" gave the
second lecture Journalism in tho Bromley
course at Yale to-day
The following are some Of tho things +bet Dr
McKelway said:
ACQUAINTED with their wants their WAYS and their
wares WA it builds on that appeal to their duties
rnns limitations OF its conductors or OF any special
community. " 'iie
MON with every other Neither size nor circulation
oaily and the country daily both seek to bring the
eonstnsppo npOrtant and Interesting to their differing
10 bring before their readers the comments which
auaes suppy 5 s2fa 70 nav % The tests which moral
sources or by circulation. The newspaper which
financially rich are tempted at Ike points ana nos
always without sin The most frequent Temptation
between saying what ought to be said and and saving
Spanca tner readers may prefer In the OF the
i uaHieiaIy & poor daily the desire 10 overcome ad-
sIsay Eerslty viii he the Temptation In the OF
naeht resources will be the temptation.
. Because a newspaper should be honest 10 hav. f,
nuence hS ana can only have decent influence IL IL
made by human beings and for human beings. II
~ nOe tS made made pg angels or for angels, The purpose
@preoinections pre- either of editors readers should
not be forgotten.
fSolege education is under ban in newspaper
oInces to-uay. A large majority of the writer's on
nearly every considerable newspaper have received
paper labor with which college experience does not
I'm t@iniila[lZe student or a graduate, but he
user. lie must learn how see things in their
thhtirety and then how 10 separate them TO exalt
tive Importance
There are conspicuous examples of men in news
bower iT h@ %no have raised reporting to the Nth
they are called correspondents. Great correspond
ents are reporters plrs They are reporters and
critics They are reporters and statesmen They
are reporters and moralsts They are reporters
They are reporters and citizens of the world
hs fed Of fhess as Oh Charles 1a when
Isl and an artist for literature. One OF these
learned the Of seeing things. Of putting things
and or telling about things which afterward stood
philosopher One OF these nast have been Vistor Vet
be whGss TeP2rs OF the actual Waterloo and Of
LIee. lie on the galleys and life in the suns may be
and placed at the service OF the spirit in man One
OF theSe was Our own Washington Irving whose
time when the Puritan less feaTed the Tndan o one
me Warpash than he did the Hoander the trade
llt ana f2r luminous stimulation Another OF them
as of war, but he wrote of war OF the forest Of
the lakes, or the wonders OF nature. of the cat
which first made our northern country the theatre
Of Of European dominance and afterward the theatre
against French endeavOr.
,;Newspaper work is hard work. But those who
IL tall at IL than succeed
thing else. 1t possesses . man 1t enfoIds him like
garment 1t stings him like lash. It impels
are those who dSbs at the SorS and kS% @So thee
them. ~ ~ -
Run back to their sources the reasons of those
who habtually impeach the press and you will hnd
that their feeling has Its In personal griev-
ances and its growth In mental lttleness in
nabs nf bnf es 4.ar Hf h f9 o
OF & tns eTtcisn upon me press and the causes OF
| tolerant toward its readers, toward government.
| toward politics. toward morals. toward theology
| and toward reforms than many Of those upon the
| toes Of whose ambition it treads tolerant
| toward it.
The excessive personalsm OF the press should be
reduced turned into better channels. But read
ers affect Journalists quite as much as Journalists
affect Journalism. Medicate the desire for publicity
| tensely interesting-to themselves and to other
The m Of the nal g3o0%H N
terest- Those who are not important wish to be
SO Sa fSVeTt fS Tne IN
ism, but the training OF it to higher standards of
| expression and to subjects on the lines of the
worlds best interests should be the aim We should
try supersede tate about the useless with truth
about the useful. gossip about the frivolous with
treated q function and TO ii must be given its
relative place But faith and force should be rated
above fads. culture above clothes and character
above both. The press is initiative and sympathetic
Society will foster it's own privacy when II does
not fling It's occasions and fits prisons the head
Of the public The press is Initiative and synpa-
its own privacy and not to fling It's occasions at the
hesS of The nnblic then the right of women and
out uublicat ton viii be respected Would the com
munlty reform tho tone OF the press? Let
II reform the tone OF its parors. its tables
its clubs. The gossip of the press is only the
difference that the is apt to be punctous and
grammatical.