Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-08

me In these little nomadic experiences
was the purity, the good grammar,
the sometimes almost literary diction
of the language of the masses of the
people in London. In fact. they are
getting almost too literary for my
taste. (Laughter.) When you hear
a man who is evidently a holman or
a navy or a scavenger saying, well,
now, isn't that rather ~grotesque?" or
Wasn't that rather VERDI" or
Wasn't there something cry IRON
ical in that situation?"-when you
hear a mar talking that language,
you begin to fear that he is learning
newspaper language instead of the
somewhat richer, but more popular
phraseology that belongs to the Ian
guage of the people; and as ! regard
simplicity as the highest form of ex-
preston, | am rather sorry that my
friends whom ! used to meet have
selected the rather forced and artifi-
cial language of the newspaper.
Well, starting from that theory, |
produced, at the price of a penny. a
literary paper, and as l have said to
you, people prophesied that it would
have no acceptance. But what they
forgot was that in England we, in
this epoch, are dealing with the sec
ond generation of the school board.
You may be surprised to hear that a
scheme of national education in Eng
land dates from so recent a year as
the year 1870. Well, now, those who
had to deal with that generation that
began learning in 1870 had the first
school board generation. | am deal
ing with the second school board gem
Grafton. They were dealing with the
educated children of ignorant par
ents; | am dealing with the educated
children of educated parents, and !
believe that is the secret of the sue
cess which has attended my efforts.
AS to this new magazine, my idea
is to bring home to the people in the
magazine what hope | have II
ceeded In doing in the weekly paper,
that is to say, of giving them, for o,
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ture, which is given by much more
highly-priced magazines and publi-
cations. We have, for instance, ey-
cry quarter now, the old "Edinburg
Review" and the old Quarterly Re-
view" very admirable periodicals in
their way. But / do not see why il
could not be possible to give a month
ly publication in which the subject
of the moment-say, China OF Japan
or Russia or Ireland or any other
country or any other subject that
may be before the public-in which
that subject should not be taken up
and the books which deal with 1t
should not be treated e~xhaustively, so
that anybody who reads that article
will really have practically swallowed
all that there is to learn upon that
subject in the publications of the day.
Well, gentlemen, | think any man
who says he Is Indifferent to the pc
cuniary results of his enterprises Is
talking the language either OF folly
or of cant. oYu cannot do anything
with a publication that does not sue
coed. 1t has to come to an end very
soon, and if your work be in it, then
| your work has to come to an end too.
| But at the same time, | do not think
it is talking cant to say that no man
| Is really worthy of a place in our pro-
| fession who does not realize that side
by side with the %pecuniary results Of
his efforts, he must look upon him
self to a large extent as one of the
missionaries and one of the preach
ers of the world. (Applause.) Far
be it from me to say anything, es-
pecially of a derogatory or OF a COM
p~etitive kind, with regard to the other
agencies which reach the ear and the
heart of mankind; but, gentlemen,
the best preacher reaches after all but
a limited congregation. The preach
err who breaches from the pulpit of a
newspaper or a magazine has his con-
gregation by the millions, and there
fore is able to approach the a and
the heart of the world in a way that
no other man can. That, of course
Is still more applicable to the man
who has written books, whose works
may live centuries after he is dead,
whose spirit may be a great sourse OF
strangeth and OF guidance towards
good in those great conflicts between
right and wrong that have to be
| fought out within the frontiers of ev.
cry mans soul. And therefore 1t is
to me a source of qualification that
have been able, l believe, through
some of these publications, to dc
something to familiarize the masses
of the people with the highes'
thought of the world and with the
highest productions of literature, and
that many of them in that way have
been induced to a closer study o.
books than otherwise they might
have done.
After all, there Is al eternal enemy
against which the spiritual and intel
lectual forces Of the world have al
ways to fight, and that is the spirit o
pure materialism. Addressing, TN
other night, a gathering of musi'
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