The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-22
EDITORS OF THE STATE DINE
ANNUAL BANQUET HELD LAST
 NIGHT AT IoNTINE HOTEL.


 Colonel N. G. Osborn Presides at Feast
 of Reason-Ernest Howard of the
 Springfield Republican Attacks Sem
 satiOnaIism in Magazlnes--PrOfessor
 Farnam Thinks Newspapers Do Much
 Harm by siIence--.G c. Woodruff
 Gives UnfavorabIe Report on Prog
 ress of Congressional Legislation.
 The annual banquet of the Connecti- cut Editorial association was held at the Tontine hotel last night and was largely attended by editors of various state papers. The guests of honor were Governor Rollin s. Woodruff, Professor Henry w. Farnam, Of Yale university, and Ernest Howard, editor of the Springfield Republican.
 After an excellent dinner served by Landlord White the editors sat back in their chairs to listen to "The Feast of Reason" as the toast card was headed. Colonel Norris G. Osborn, of the New Haven Register, was toastmaster. He was in his usual humorous mood, and created much merriment. He first in- troduced Governor Rollin s. Woodruff as the man who had shown himself to be the fearless exponent of good legis- lation, Governor Woodruff said:
 Governor WOOdrufr's Address.
 The newspapers have said that they hoped my digestive and nervous ap- paratps would be strong enough to en- dure the strain of the dinners that q governor is expected to attend. A man may be able to endure the hardships of war and politics, and yet surrender to the engagements of public dinners It seems that several previous gov ! ernors of Connecticut started with great courage and came out with in- digestion.
 After all, a man is no stronger than his stomach, and promise you I will take good care of mine during the next two years.
 There was a time, however, in the earlier history of New England when J an editor or a governor would have been glad to get such a dinner as this but it is probably very fortunate thing that they escaped these luxuries, for their work was of a hazardous kind and full of danger.
 f They ate their frugal dinners with shotguns at their sides-of such was the stuff of our ancestors. | How great we have grown, and how rich and free and safe we are in this splendid age of wealth and luxury and peacel
 Journalism is a college of effort, and you must begin at the bottom, no mat l ter what you may have acquired in any other university.
 No one knows how journalist Is made, and no one knows how to make one, except the man who began at the bottom and grew up to be an edltol through years of hard practical ex- l perience.
 I A great newspaper is strange, live unexpected thing.
 I It rushes into existence through tho 1 day and night made by many hands and many brains; swayed by the cir. ' cumstances and born in the rush ant excitement of ten thousand thrilling | o,,c,,o,,+e ,.oo;,,,r to o ,nr, o,, sOa1 frou every point of the compass A news boy stands at the door waiting for thu ! paper to spring out of all the confusion He grasps it and is gone. To him 1t i something to be sold in a hurry, ant there his interest ends.
 To you, who have watched It's birth it is like the finished model in tn, sculptor's studio, surrounded by tn waste and wreck of scaffolding ant clay, standing alone in it's simple mag nificence-a marvellous offspring of sci ence and art-the modern newspaper.
 To know this thing, to understant how it grows, upon what it feeds, hoy it is sustained and what it means, vol must live with it and be a part of it power.
 As a matter of fact, the newspape has made this nation solid. We ar one people, because we know each othe through the public press. Californi and Maine sit down to breakfast an read the same news and are intereste in the common topics of our country
 Public opinion, which is the motiv power in civilization, is made by tn newspapers. Eighty millions are sim ultaneously informed of the transac tions of the hour, and form their opin ions from what they read.
 We become a common mind and
 common heart, beating with commo sympathy.
 What would happen withiut this uni versal information? This instantaneou intelligence is the safeguard of ou country. We are forewarned and fore armed by the facts collected and dis tributed by the press,
 I believe in the absolute liberty (