The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-02-28
CONCERNING JOURNALISM.
ST. CLAIR M,KELWAT AT LAMP
 SON HALL.

ST. CLAIR M'RELWAF AT LAAP- SON HALL.
 Tribute to Founder of Lecture Course
 the Late Isaac BromIey-NewsPapers
 and sensatfonaIIsm--NewspHpers Held
 to il Higher standard Than Other BusIuesses-ReIatIon to Public Men The Yale Spirit in Journalism'
 A brilliant address, the first of the two lectures on Journalism in the Bromley course at Yale for this year was delivered last evening in Lampson Iyeeum by the Hon. St. Clair Mckei- way. of the Brooklyn Eagle, of which | paper he has been editor for more than twenty years. e , h,,
 MT. McKeIway was introduced pS President Hadley. He said in part: | My Friends-I owe this opportunity to inc courtesy of the authorities or the | university. The opportunity itselt ls due to inc interest of the family ol isaac H. Bromley in this university Il and in the identification of his memory wit, this foundation. I knew him well and long, but not mtlmateiy' t1ls \ mind, his fancy, his knowledge. We're Indicated by his unmistakaple artleies of comment. With him personally l came into contact only on occasions l which his addresses made characters tic and which his conversation VlvlIeu with charm. I recall nothing he wrote (which dying he would wish to blot. AS to him we need nothing to extenuate, flor he set down naught in malice. He 5 was wise without formality He was an I artist without the obtrusion of meth ods or of implements. Those nearer to
 him saw his work in the making, Only the finished product appeared to ms
 readers, and that was a liberal eduea' ition in what humor affected by a rela- Ition to duty, or duty made attractive by imagination and sentiment should he. Between himself and his readers the relation was confidential He un packed their minds when he disclosed his own. He knew what they were
 thinking about, because that was just l what he was thinking about himself
 Better than they, he was their inter
 preter. When they read him they req,
 lized what they would have said hac
 they been able. His death did not
 eclipse the gayety of Journalism, fol
 other lights shone out on its sky. Blu the light he carried was extinguishet lwhen it fell from his hand. His meth Tod was unique. No writer had mort admirers and none fewer rivals or en
 emies. Imitation of him was impossi l ble. Bitterness toward him was no where felt. Bitterness by him was no
 where expressed. am glad his calling
 has been honored in his name by hi
 university.
 have been assured that I could tall here either about Journalism or abou
 any subject affected by relation t
 Journalism. There are few subject!
 not affected by such q relation. Ths journalism of news has been defined t
 be the history of the world for day That is an excessive definition, but il
 contains large measure of truth.
 l I do not know that Journalism is bet
 ter served than commerce or science
 or governments. But it is as wei
 served as they are, and the servitors iof the other great forces are aided D,
 journalism now in ways that can read I fly be seen.
 MT. McKelway then spoke of the par
 journalism played in presidential af fairs, contrasting the effects of slow
 means of communication upon. Presi I dent Jackson's career with the effec' that the immediate publicity of the
 news of the treaty between the United 1 States had upon President McKinley's career That fact, he said, made nc
 military hero president at the next
 election, but it did secure the re-elec-
 tion of the executive statesman who
 was then chief magistrate. It was in | stantaneous intelligence plus the pub ilicity of it which accomplished that
 The instantaneous exchange was due to invention. The publicity was due tc the enterprise of journalism and to the use of that enterprise by the appeal
 which governments were able to make to the curiosity, to the sensibilities and to the interests of mankind. Credit and service, should be justly appor toned. Enough can be. claimed for the
 share of journalism in the production
 of peace then. Enough that cen bt
 substantiated is better than too much (which cannot be. The disposition tc claim more than can be substantiatet marks some journalism, but not all and marks many a business more thar
 it marks even journalism at It's worse The speaker then drew a comparison , bmetween the boastfulness, the loud : ness'' of journalism and that of adver Using.
 He called attention to the fact tha l journalism is not more sensationa
 than advertising. ...t; I do not forget that information i the object of news and that stimula
 ton is the object of advertisements l that the expression and production Q
 conviction is the object of editorials
 and that the production of sales is tn 5 object of advertisements. But the ot Iigation to accuracy. is the same be l meath all these purposes and conformi ty to good taste should be the aim o 7 them all. believe in journalistic re | form. But we must reform more tha1