The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-09-30
Nh, DOOLEy ON
POWER Of PRESS

'Th' printed wurrud! What can 1
| do against it? 1 buy a gun to protect
me against me inimy. 1 can change
me name to save me firm gran jury.
But there's no escape FIR good man or
bad firm tn printed wurrud 1t fol-
lows me WHEREVER 1 go an sthrikes me
down in church, in me office. in me
very home. There was me frind Jawn
D. Three years ago he seemed insured
against punishment ayether here or
hereafther. A happy man. a religious
man. He had squared tn ligfsIachures
tn Coorts, tn politicians an tn
Baptist clargy. He saw tn dollars
hoppin' out iv ivry lamp chimbley In
tn wurruId an hurryin' to'rd him.
His heart was pure seem that he had
niver done wrong save in tn way iv
business. His head was hairless but
unbowed- Ivry Mondah mornin' I
read w him leadin' a chorus fv On
ward Christyan sogers marchin' f'r tn
stuff He was at peace with tn Wur-
ruld, tn flesh, an tn divvle. A good
man! What cud harm him? An so it
seemed he might proceed to tn grave
Whin', 10 an behold, up in his path
leaps a lady with a pen in hand an
off goes Jawn D. FIR tn tall timbers.
lady, mind We, dips a pen into an ink
well! There's an explosion an what's
left iv Jawn D. an his power wudden't
brighten crows away firm a corn field.
Who's afraid iv Rockefeller now? TIL
Prisidint hits him a kick, a country
grand jury indicts him, a goluf caddy
overcharges him an whin he comes
back firm Europe he has as many po-
t0 h
Owens. A year ago. anybody wud
take his money. Now if he wanted to
give it even to Chancellor Day he'd
have to meet him in a barn at mid
night.
No, sir, as Hogan says. 1 care not
who makes tn law or tn money iv
a country so long as ] run tn presses
Father Kelly was takin' about it tn
other day. There amt anything like
it an there niver was says he. All
tn priests in this diocese together
preached to about a hundred thousand
people wanct a week an he says, all
tn papers preach to three millyon
wanct day, aye. twinty times a day.
he says. We give We hell on SUNDAYS
an they give We hell all tn time. he
says 'Tis a wonderful thing he says.
I see bar'l iv printers ink goin' into
a newspaper office an it looks common
enough. A bar'l iv printers ink,
bar'l iv linseed lie an lampblack with
a smell to it that's half stink an half
perfume But I tell we if all tn dim
nymite. lyddite, cordite an gun cotton
in tn wurruld wuz hid behind thin
hoops there wudden't be as much dis
turbance in that bar'l as there is in
tn messy stuff that looks like so much
tar, he says. Printers ink A dhrop
iv it on wan little wurrud in type, he
says, will blacken tn fairest name in
Christendom or he says, make star
to shine on tn lowliest brow he says.
1t will find it's way into millions iv
homes an hearts an memories, it will
go through iron dures an stone walls
an will carry some message that may
turn tn current iv ivry life it meets.
firm tn Emperor iv Chiny to tn baby
in tn cradle in Hannigans fiat he
says. 1t may undo thousand prayers
or start a millyon. 1t can't be escap-
ed. Tt could dhrag me out iv me parish
house to-mOrrah an make me as we'll
known in Picking as I am in Halsted
an not as fav'rably. To
day tn Pope may give me no more
thought thin he gives Kelly tn rowlin'
mill man. To-morrah he may be read
in about how great or bad 1 am in tn
Popylo Romano. It's got death beat a
mile in levelin' ranks
Yes. sir says he, tn hand that
rocks tn fountain pens is tn hand that
rules tn wurruld. TIL press is FIR tn
whole universe what Mulligan was FIR
his beat. He was tn best polisman
an tn worst I liver knew. He was
terror to evil doors whin he was sober
an a terror to ivrybody whin he was
dhrunk. Martin, L dhrink to tn la-ads
all over tn wurruld who use tn prln-
ter's ink. May they not put too much
iv tn FRED stuff in it an may it
niver go to their heads"