New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-02-23

looking out for themselves. Thus IN the en
forcer1ent Of health regulations. in the pasisase
Of tenement laws. child labor laws. estdp. to
menJ OF orphan asylums and places VI ~
for waits and in many other waysi the ~oIN
OF the minister in home missions brings IN. ~
in contact with necessity for government p5
and he is heard. and is entltied 70 Oe +basa
upon the policies Of the government III tneSe
regards. -. issione
The greatest agency to-day I'm keeping US gu
yised Of the conditions among OTlentai Iace9'
who however old their traditions ana thei5 -
iization. now tending toward occi iei,
ideals is the esta blishment of foreign III
as the outposts Of the advance guard OF mrs
tan civilization. These missions have the uutg
Of representing the ideal OF Western CHRISTIAN
,,yugrass and through them such progress Is 10
be commended To the races whom. It Is hoped'
we may induce to accept that same clNili@dt 81,
The leaders OF these missionary branches u lIe
churches are now becoming some OF our mos
learned statesmen in respect OF our Propes
Oriental policies. md they are 70 De rechon i1
with BIZ the men more Immediately ciargeu VIII
the responsibility Of initiating and carrying oii
such policies.
THE TEACHER.
The next profession is that Of the teacher. VI
course the great number of teachers are en-
gagged in primary and secondary instruction ana
in industrial vocational work. Their rela-
ton to politics and government is OF the utmost
IMPORTANCE though indirect. II is and ought 10
be their highest duty to -inStil in the mlnds OF
the Young girls and boys the PATRIOTISM anu
O
the man. and the patriotism or the eXFtihe
youth of the country may well determine thaC
Of the grown men. The\effect of an intense
patriotism which thrills through the nerves oI
the bovs of a country is illustrated in the i'm
n1ense strength which Japan derives from II
Another way in which the professional teacher
may exercise great indirect political influence
is in the encourag cement that he ought 10 give
10 the young man Of college age and life IN the
study and pursuit of politics. II is most en-
couraging to know the great attention tldt Il
given to-day in all the universities TO the en-
coura cement OF political and economical us
Cussion among the students. and the eagerhess
with which they read and listen TO those proo-
lens. the solution Of which is giving the men
in actual political power anxiety and labor
THE WRITER.
A third profession which exercises some of
the functions of the ministry and some OF those
of the teacher is that Of the writer his pro
fessiOn may he literature. and embrace the poet
the historian, the novelist, the critic or ma! Dc
journalism, and include the edltor. corIeSPoH-
dent and the news gatherer or city reporter IN
many aspects. writing is profession; IN others,
when il is reduced merely to the purveylng ana
sale OF news IL is a business. When conducted
on the highest plane. 1t exerts as much influence
for GOOD as the ministry and has a wider
range, and indeed. has probably robbed tne
profession of part of its usefulness because II
has become a substitute for il with many per
sons and in many families. Its power OF pun
lie instruction is very great; but when II pan
tIers to the vulgareSt taste for SensatonhllSih
and becomes entirely irresponsible IN reI'et - -
its influence for good and its statement OF tlis
truth its pernicious tendency is obv1ated onlS
by the power of the people to protect them,
selves against il by a safe discrimination anu
q healthy skepticism and clear understanding
of it's recklessness and baser motive Inc close
relation between Journalism and politics and the
carving on Of a government no one "Eo Hst9
been in the slightest degree familiar Win me
course of a popular government can ignore. me
raoDIe demand to know what their servants III
The legislature in the executive and on the
bench are doing. and the CHIEF If not the only
method by which they are made aware OF 'Iie
character of the service rendered to them IS
through the press The unjust color SOMETIMES
given through jaundiced editors ana Coat
snondents has injurious erect plt loI -,
~ in tho number Of newspapers and IN the
va rietv Of motives that affects those VINO ~.
,,jsh the news such injustice is genefaiiS rem.
- The great body Of the people VINO nave
discriminating common sense are ehauleu .t si
reach with considerable accuracy Ihe u uIlilI "a
verdict and judgment in respect 10 Poiili00i a.
fsifS MEDICINE.
The next profession for consideration IN us
-oi.,ior 10 governmental matter Is that OF lneul-
.i,a Until very recently it's influence mas peeh
practically nothing in professional way, IiLei me-,
have been physicians who nave gwen up 'Ielt
nTactice and gone into politics, but there was
some trait Of theirs adapted to success IN pom
tics that had little or nothing to do Win tne
come more interested in government OF late
wears because the functions OF government nav
widened and embrace in real ana SUI
stantial way the preservation OF the nealln Vi
ON H. yaon1e The effect which Imperfect
drainage bad water. impure food. ill-VenuiaIeu
houses and a failure to isolate contagloh nave
n
rarent with the study which great sanitary au-
thorities nave given to the matter. ana mas I'M
posed much more distinctly and untquEocaHy
the burden upon municipal, state ana 1ederal
governments of looking after the puDlc heaiIh
The expansion Of our government into the trop-
les the necessity of maintaining our armies ahG
,-ies there and Of supporting a great force OF
1yorkmer in the construction OF such an enter
prise a that Of the Panama Canal. have greatN
exalted the importance of the discoveries OF the
medical profession in respect TO the prevention
and cure Of human diseases and Of diseases OF
domestic animals.
Tho triumph which has been reached in the
name of the medical profession in the discovery
as TO the real cause of yellow fever and
malaria and the suppression of those diseases
b1- killing or preventing the propagation Of o.
the infection OF. the mosquito is one of the Won
ders Of human progress 1t has made the con-
struction of the Panama Canal possible.
THE LAW.
We come finally 20 the profession OF the law
with the exception. perhaps OF the profession