New-York tribune., 1908-05-04
PULPIT PRAISES PRESS.
Rabbi Uise Says Its Influence E'r-
ceeds That of School or Church.

pabbs Stenbeu : Wise delivered sermon on
1.-The Moral Power OF the Press az the free 90
gogue YESTERDAY In which he said that the innu-
epCa of tho nress was greater than that OF ihe
church or school Incidentally DIT Wise 'oucieH
oo the political situation in New YORK S'ats- I"'
ing q tribute 10 Governor Hughes. ne sai"
sPIendidy 9a te ReH5 uses e sS ho IS
ard bearer the people as against me BIT r0rsf
thomgb f,nder other names. The question = hoS
one Of party. the fight is not GoyeInor ~ n1es
don We face to-day whether the people o, Us
site snail be seif-governed whether the Rar{Is
boss shall govern for the sake OF self and IelI -
ours a representative or popular S&o G ~ egfs-
atuTe represents his constituency nor nS acceSf
final the mandate CT a teIe8rafi-
-rb. rabbi also had something 10 say about the
nrAss treatment of a dinner at club where negro
men and white women dine1 together lie saio'
Last week there was dinner a which white and and
negro men and women SAT sGGFIe 81 hose who ar
ranged that dinner protest against f5e IiSlTda Sal
ing and unruthful accounts OF AM tnf d,,ls nrss One
tper used the phrase. White men eat WltG coIorrI
girls" The mnsndo conveyed by that phrase .+ Is
wicked falsehoc Some nsEspspeTs stated ,Se zoif 5a-
tinn Of the problem OF the white and neGro - in ~
America In truth. the only reference mar ~ - -
@ Ier Io dismiss IL as it must BE- dismissed. as
solution Of the race problem
Dr Wise said OF the mission OF the press tha'
II must oppose the domination Of wall S''7V'
anti Roosevelt mObS as Wen o. C"'''' 49,
fnobs'
He added
What the power Of the press FOR good MAJ , Dc
come is Illustrated t0uchingy in Russia to-os5
What of revolutionary impulse ana aspirattoi, -.
better things still survive in Russia are 49,
alive by the sO-called underground press IILe
Car and his lOathsoue buTeacracy. CurSt-CoI,4
ted. crowned with crime and shame WOuIt1
h.. the unchallenged and Unreststed masters ..
the situation were il not for the tnvinCioIe spILl
Of the press which is printed. not with lnk- aIiG
oils. but with the sweat and blood or ttuSS5d
uoblest and best II is the underground press thaC
keeps alive Russia's hope of freedom
The press IL not 10 be a mere echo or even 19r-
nulator of public opinion. II ought % De me m
former and guide of public opinion The press -
the daily teacher Of the nation. 1nStrlctl!s, not
but women and cnlIdreFl
Young and old The press is a peoples university
that never shuts IT'S doors The press ought
stoutlv resist the spreading notion t.at tle
newspaper is to be' mere puTveyor OF news
rather than a bringer OF intelligence. l nnd a
community Of interest between Such a. "ouId
limit the newspaper 10 news gathering and news
bringing. and such would restrict the pulpit
to the preaching of the sO-CaIled simple gospel
fruit To-day the press must win victories TOT
freedom everywhere holding in the noble words
of Tom PAYNE: Where liberty is not. there - my
country In order greatly to serve the cause or
freedom. the press must itself be free I am not
referring outer freedom but 10 inner freedom
for moral pOWer is impossible without that inner
freedom. which signifies not the absence or re
straint from without. but the presence or SELF