The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-09-22
4THE POWER or THE PRESS
AS viewed BY "Mr. Dooley" in the octo
Der American Magazine.

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Der American Magazine.
u. y. Dunno never wrote better
4)ooIeys article than the one he pub
fishes in the October number Of The AM
erican Magazine the periodical that he
ana John i. Phillips and Ida N. Tarbell
and William Allen White and Lincoln
steilena and Ray Stannard Baker have
bought, and taken hold Of with such
yigor.
This new Dooleyv article IL on "The
Power Of the Press" II Is the splendid
sane brain III the great American phil
osophef at its best How Peter Dunno
does grow in wisdom and knowledge
I How gentle his humor, how fair his
filrasts
After showing what tl' press can do
TIT thin ii loves" and 'what it can hand
to thin il don't love-" after amusing
references to his colleagues, Mr.. StetFens
ard AIr. Baker and Miss Tarbell, and to
Winston Churchill and Roosevelt and
I0fhers, MI Dooley" says:
No. sir al Hogan SAYS, ! care not
Who makes Cit laws OF tli' money " u
country 90 long as ! run tn presses.
Father Kelley WAS talkin' about Il TIL
other DAY. There Amt anything like
Il an there niyer was, says he. All tn
priests in this diocese together preach
ta about i numbered thousand people
wanct week an, he says. all tn pa
peers preach To three millyon wanct
day, aye, twinty times day. he says.
we give We he'll on SUNDAYS anil they
Give NJ hell all III time," lie says. It's
Wonderful thing, he says. | see a
lbarl N printers ink goin' into news
paper Office an IL looks common enough.
/ A bar1 IL printers ink, bar'l ~ linsee
iIc an lampbIacS, with a smell to it
that's half stink an half perfume. But
/ / tell ye IL an TIL dinnymite, lydditr,
cordite an gun cotton in tn wurruld
wuz hid behind thin hoops there
lwiidden't De as much disturbance in that
bari as there is in tn messy stuff that
looks ike SO mnch tar, he says Print
er's ink A dhrop N it Oil wan little
wurrud in type he says, will blacken
ltlf fairest name in Christendom or he
saws. make stnr To shine on tn lowli-
est brow, he saws. IL will find its way
into millions N homes an hearts an
memories, it will 80 through iron dures
AM stone walls an viii carry some mes
sage that may turn III current III ivry
| life ii meets, firm tif Emperor " Chiny
TO nj baby IA TIL cradle in Hannigans
fat he says. II may undo thousand
prayers on start millyon. II can't be
escaped II could dhrag me out " me
parish house tomorrah an-make me a.
lwell-known IN Pekin as ! am in Hal
stead sthreet, an not as fay'rablv. To-
day tn pope may give me no more
thought thin be gives Kelly th' Rowlin'
Mill Man. Tomofrah he may be readin'
about how great or bad | am in tn
popylo Romano. It's got Death beat
mile tn levelin' ranks.
n, SIR says ne, tn hand that
rocks til fountain pens is tn hand that
rules III wuTruld. TIL press is FIR th
whole universe what Mulliean was fr
lis beat. Tie was tn best poIishman an
Oh worst ! liver knew. He was terror
to evil doors whin he was sober an
terror 10 ivrybody whin he was dhrunk.
Martin. drink 10 tn la-ads all over th'
@urruld who use tn printers ink. May
they not put too much IN tIi' FRED stuff
in il an may il niver 20 to their heads.