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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-17
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-09-17
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For Eastern New York and Western
Vermont generally fair tonight and
Saturday. Slightly cooler tonight.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

Even As boy took some interest in politics. Perhaps was eight years old wien 'secessfonss and 'ACo-ope- rationy vexed the righteous souls of the people Of South Carolina
 Feeling ran high The people took 1t to the Lord in prayer" My father was forh ''co-operation" and being q BaptisE ministsr he was frequently called upon to open the meeting with prayer. Ills warmest friend (for whom I was named) was on the other side. end sfrsduentiy went to the Lord for the s'1are-eaters" It often occurred to my child mind that If the Lord was on one side. He was not on the other and that. possibly, one or the other of Ills servants was calling upon Him in vain.
 think now in such cases that Ills people should agree among themseives before they unnecessarily trouble HAm with their differences. (That s oniy by the way.)
 It is possible that may be wrong en the above conclusion. =
 We moved to Alabama in 1853. attended every speaking could, even up to the climax of public deliberation on the political question of that day
 My father. being Q conscienffous preacher of the Gospel was non-parti- san. He exercised the right of the cit- axen and voted. noticed that no se~ iected the best man. without regard to political afiliiations. To show his po- sitical inclination, I noticed that when the late Judge stone was candidate for thS Legislature against "smau eotato" my father voted for the Judge.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

papers.fIllustration by wood cuts was slow and expensive. The zinc etching was a failure nine times out of ten and the chalk plate an ahomination
 The half-tone Is So quick and accu- rate that 1t Ia the ideal illustration. In the nineties the color press came Into use.
 Printing newspapers in colors has never proved popular in the greater part Of the United States, although in Colorado. there is a long-contiuued epidemic of red headlines. The color press made the comic supplement pos sibie and put many of the oid-tfrna politico-comic weeklies out of busf- ness.
 The variety had cheaponed them, and there is a distinct movement against the comic" not only fin the churches ana schools. but among newspaper men, too.
 Sending out eight billion copies a year the American newspapers and periodicals are exerting an influence such as has never before been known in the world. All of the schools and colleges and universities in existence do not educate as many men and wo- men.
 It Is sometimes said that the newx- papers are not as influential as they once were, but the thinking man knows better. Editorial dictum fs no longer accepted as it once was, but the newspaper gives the news and the reader draws his own conclusions. Printing the news has made the news. paper of America, quito the most won. derfui thing on earth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

fellow with his pencil and book. made me recoliect-"There's a chief among ye and he's taking notes."
 I wanted to warn the judge to bs careful and discreet for feared my little man was an Editor. Gin thosa days, an editor was to be dreaded-weli in these days. when he gets to be the Devil the wicked are alarmed.)
 The Judge had got along unto the analysis of his pet doctrine "Popular Sovereignty" and was perhaps telling what this, that and the other promin. ent man had to say about 1t, when my little man. in a high, squsaking voice. shouted And what did you tell 'smr
 Thinks to myself" this is a mighty bold little fellow to, butt In" when . gentleman Is speaking, and I was un- easy that the judge might fall into . trap.
 Answering an Interruption.
 The Judge looked over that way and focused the pigmy with his Little Giant" eyes. Then with deliberatiOn that was painful to his opponent and an enunciation that was fearful to the evil doer he said: T told 'em that it is not only the privilege but the duty of every State, of every community. of every man-to attend to his own busi- uessr'
 I don't think I ever heard local op- tion." or popular rights so tersely put
 And don't recollect another Instance of such overwhelming acknowledge. ment of the applause which he had provoked as was now apparent in the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

it. The Hsratd's display needing was the single word Important" Sixteen years glater. when Garaeid was shot. the first days news was gtven to New York in thirty-six columns of reading matter.
 No portraits were printed of the president and the only illustration was Q diagram of the railroad station where the assassin attacked his victim. After another twenty years Mckinley was shot at Buffalo. One New York newspaper next morning had twelve page. of matter concerning the assass- ination, including twenty-one halftone engravings and a cartoon depicting the grief of the stricken nation.
 .In December. 1885. there was great ire in New York, whichA destroyed s20, ,000, 900 worth of property. Until that time, when fires had been report cd at all, it was with a mere state ment of the number of buildings burn ed and their value.
 James Gordon Bennett wrote the story of the big blaze and put in the 'hurnan interest" features, describing the work of the hremen, the trouble with broken hose and incidents among the spectators.
 That was the beginning of the ''story in detair' 1t told.
 With the growth of the news has grown the facility for getting 1t. The Associated Presss has become the great est news gathering agency fin the world. Before the telegraph came. New York employed swift yachts to meet vessels coming from Europe; carrier pigeons were sent from Halifax, where
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

1, Chicago Tribune went to Africa in pursuit of an absconding bank cashier ana caught him. .ci 4..- t.u. ...,... | When the New Testa nent vas bting revised in London W. W. Story of the old Chicago Times had 5000 words of it cabled to him and when the conn plete copy reached New York he had 1t telegraphed to Chicago over twenty one wires for publication in The Times
 During the Civil war the New York Herald had sixty-three correspondents in the field a field stan larger than any one paper has ever had, before or since working on one line.
 The Spanish war gave the modern American newspaper a chance to show what 1t could do. When the Nashville fired the first shot across the bows of the Buena Ventura The New York Journal found enough inteiesr In thA fact to justify a paper next morning which devoted more space to that one event than all of the newspapers In New York put together had devoted to the battle of Gettysburg.
 The battle of Gettysburg got first line across one column. while the first shot of the war with Spain con.Isand- ed headlines as wide as the paper, and nearly all of a twenty-four page issue was devoted to half-tone pictures of battleships, forts. :.aval commanders, army ofiicers, Spanish grandsss, and the experts" who were analysing the situation.
 The invention of the photo-engrav- ing process from which comes the half-tone has done much to change the character and appearance of news
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

the ocean ships first landed. and pony expresses were maintained between New York and the scapitaia
 During the Mexican war Baltimore newspaper organized pony express from Baltimore to New Orleans and got its war news hours ahead Of the government service.
 The first use to which the telegraph was put was to carry news for the papers. In 1S46 Henry Clay made speech on the Mexican war at Lexing- ton. Ky, It was taken eighty miles to Cincinnati and from there tele- Rraphed to the New York Herald. which printed 1t next morning In fuli. It was the first speech ever sent oy wire. and its publication caused a ver- itable sensation.
 In that same year, when the ore gon boundary question was the Durn- ing issue and trouble with England was expected the cry of "Fifty-four or fight" caused Q combination of papers to charter a swift pilot boat to get the latest news from England.
 When Lincoln was killed more than three weeks elapsed before the com ment of the European press appeared in American newspapers. When Gar field was shot the Associated Press publishel two columns next morning of what the monarchs and newspapers of the old world had to say in deploring the tragedy.
 The oceanic cable was @ success as of as 1866 but 1t was In the Franco Prussian war of 1870 that it was first used for newspapers to any consider able extent. At first the cable was
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

The newspaper in the United states shows steady growth from the bsginn. sng so the present. particularly in the methods followed in the making. There have been five distinct epochs says The Fourth Estate.
 Before the revolution the few papers published were mainly devoted to fir- ing the coloniai heart against the English Crown and to the formation of a national patriotism.
 After the adoption of the constitu- tion and the beginning of our present government the newspapers were for a time the mohth-pieces of the politi- clans of day when politics was as bitter as wormwood.
 But the svbservient editors soon found it was through them that the politicians were enabled to carry on these wars and they rebelied.
 Then came the era when the news paper wal the personal property of its editor, al editor with an ambition to the newspapers was still c thing which for three decades and during its con- tinuancg the editors moulded the pub- lie thought ana shaped the public policy
 well nigh all powerful in politics tee newspaper was stiil thing which appeaed to but few of the masses. Provided altogether to the science of Eove}nment. it printed news only as a eideil line and excluded from its columns
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

ing tn American ambassa1ure look ss tn legs. Nivsr mind tn head. If n hirsiing ye have ordhsred spAra ribs an spinach firm has no knee brooches cancel th' ordher. Tn man is tn Ams erican ambassAdure.'
 An 1t isn't on.y tn diplomats that have rot us in right with tn effets governmints iv Europe. Ivry year thousands iv volunteers goes abroad to square us an estabii better relations thin they enjye st home. They sup- ply tn establishmint an th' furrtners supply tn relations. They have done fine wurruk fir us, yet they presarvs their nationality. Thsrc's no mistakin' an American who has lived amy Tenth iv time in England There's no mis- Engiishman howiver bold he might Dc. as much tv an Engiishman as an Am- ericap with money. An English accent waited through an American nose is . hne noise. ~
 "But our fellow citizens abroad are thrue to their counthry. They admit It's faults candidiy. 1t fs thrue. They they find around thim. But they stand up 'braveiy nr 1t in spite iv ft all. Ho- gan who has beenI over there says that Inawthin' ever thrilled him more thin to hear . rich American standin' up f'r his own. his native land. No wan says this here pathrite. no wan de- plores more thin me tn class iv Amert- cans wan sees SO often abroad. But ye must raymimber' says he, 'thati we are not all alike. There are gintiemen- over there as well as here's says TO.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

But I had no parental political steer ing and in 1880 when Judge Douglas was . candidate for the Presidency took to him.
 In looking back to those times I sometimes conclude that as . boy had more sense than many grown up peo' ple. Douglas was . representative, even that far back of the "safe and sanes idea In politics and no way af- fected with fanaticism. He and were right, but there were too few of us. The trouble about fanattcism is. that 1t involves the good with the bad and "piinisheR the innocent with the gull on has the jaundice.
 Judge DeugIes' vtsat
 The informed man will reoollect that Judge Douglas came to Montgomery in the fen of 1880 and made Q speech. In those days 1t was fashionable to have torch light processions for great men. It 90 happened that the Judge did not have much following in Alabama. He had been quite prominent in the affeo- tions of Democrats. but because he was "safe and sane" he had fallen button-hole or two in the estimation of the hitherto enamored.
 The few (and 1t was qutte crowd) who could give the shipoieth of sani- ty. met him at the old West Point des pot. While we waited for the train. . young man from rroy--the lamonted Bibb Gardner entertained us with . speech.
 when the train arrived, Col Seibels. who was an earnest supporter of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

Douglas, took him in . carriage and the procession began. don't know at what stage of the march It occurred (niaybe as we turned into Court SQuare) but at some stage. some re- fined gentleman of the cultured oppost- ton threw some eggs at the Judge ut ts supposed this was done to impress the Judge with the elegance of South ern manners.) The eggs missed the mark, but 1t is thought that a distin- guished welcomsr was the maddest man in the city.
 It took so long to disinfect the vic. tim that we didn't have the pleasure of . speech that night from the Judge.
 Job would have lost his patience ure der like circumstances. E It ia not out of place to say that seibeis gave his life in the cause precipitated by the in- orators" while the -eagle orators'' evinced a distaste to the smell of gun powder.
 saTwas ever thus and etc."
 The next day Douglas spoke to large crowd in the capitol grounds. He stood not far from the spot where Davis stood.
 I was afar off in the crowd--in the direction of the historic spot upon which Kobb was inducted into the Gubernatorial ofice.
 damned in the crowd with me was . lean wiry little man (if 1t be lawfuD and he was taking notes. Even in that early day of my uuprofitable, life had read some poetry. and this little
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

. Idessay, I must be goin'," says the DnglishmAn convicted be th' arymint. Hogan says he wanst hssrd . com- pathrits spinding' two hours with . Fr-rinchman pintin' out to him that whero there w6re two kinds of Amert- cans Tn Fr-rinchman cudden't see it.
 'Th' result is. iv coorse. that we stand much better thin we did. Amert- cans iv tn better class ar-re received nearly Everywhere. They can be found outside iv tn most exclusive clubs. They aven invade an are welcome In tn sacred precincts iy Exeter Hall. There are almost as nanny Americans az Engiishmen at tn selict Angio- American club excipt on th' niGhts whin they have dinners. There they mingle on an aksl footing with some " from tn British army.
 RisIty itsif disdains thim not. Ivry wanst in awhile an American lady goes to tn American embassy an brsalxs into tn private ofics whore ly meal iv tay an marmyiade. She threatens, to stab him with hat pin an. have him recalled onIess he gets her . pass f'r tn next reciption give be tn king. Ys bet he gets It f'r her. He gsts tickets cr hsrsilf an silas an they TO out an hire profiBsor iv etiket to teach thim how to behave so they won't be heaved out he tn coort bouncsr Tn lady says tn pro-fissor. son being presinted to his majesty will pretind to be goin' to set down on the ffure. But she must recover hersiif just as she is about to lose her balance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
MT. Dooley on Flying Machines By F. F. Dunno
By Fe Fe Duf1f1O

In no case must she hit tn king on tn wrist with her fan or say: "Plazed to have met ye." It is on'y permissible to wear an expression mantp': This is th' moment in me life. hut~oh hivens, me ostrich feather fs comin' loose Tn Gintieman will pretind that he was brought up to wear silk knee brooches an e tin soord hired f'r tn afthernoon. whin approachin' his majesty he will make . low bow. No. not that way. Good hivsns. if ys do 1t like that tn king will think ye're goin' to butt him in tn stomach. Thry 1t again. That's better.
 a.so they 20 home an rshearss bsfure tn looiin' glass. An ct last tn great day comes around an they are In tn prisince iv rielty. Rapchoous moment! There sets Edward. th' Pious. . thrus deep In his rile collar as 1t will SO. He sets . little forward in his throne to rest himself 1T tn hour is late an he's been there 1T some time an as tn old sayin' goes 'Onaisy lies tn head that wears . crown He recognizes thim although his eyes arc closed. They expict him to say: Well # that ain't Missus Hicks! an Sifas, too. iv all personsr But he don't. A benign ex- pression that seems to say: Where tn biaxes did they come firm. crosses his features. An befure they know it they're on their way back to tn hotel an Missus Hicks 10 sayin: 'Ain't he tn perfeck gintleman. an Mister Hicks replies: Tvry inch . King
 "An' it's th' same way fvrywhere in Europe. Americans, tn right kind iv Americans with loanable money. are
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

nearly all that would interest young people or women.
 Then the newspaper realized it's principal mission of gathering and publishing the news. Politics was still most important. however, and each prominent paper was the organ" of one of the great parties lighting for It's own saints and it's own scoundrels without let or htndrance.
 Lastly comes the great American newspaper of today. printing the news and with 1t something for every mem Der of every family. It takes lively interest in politics at times, but in- stead of being tied to any particular party. apron strings. Is more often entirely independent as to men and measures.
 The development of the American newspaper is best shown in the evolu- tion of the handling of news. When William Henry Harrison ninth presi- dent of the United States, died month after he had taken the oath of ofhee in 1s41, and was succeeded by John Tyler one of(the greatest newspapers in the country told all 1t thought worth while about the death of the president in a quarter of a column. It didn't mention the fact that Mir. Tyler would succeed him, evidently assum- ing that everybody ought to know who was vice-president. A few weeks later the editorial columns blaxed with com- ment about Tyler, but the news said never e word.
 When Lincoln was assassinated the leading New York newspapers next morning published four columns about
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

poplar ivrywhere. Ye can see thfm In cabs mingiin' with tn hauty arrySto- cracy iv tn Fowboorg San Gerrsayne. Ye nnd thim in tn most exclusivsp schintxei improyums fv vienny or losin' their money with tn best at Monty Carlo. Anywhere they were received kindly be tn best blood iv Europe ontii tn wrights wint over an dis
 graced thim. Tn Americans livin' over there thried to do ivrything Sr these deluded young men. Wilbur Wright . chanct to meet tn Duchess iv Dorking. It was this way. Tn American lady had been honored with tn Job iv tend in tn American bar at . bazaar rr tn binift iv tn anti-foreign league iv British gintlewomen. She was sp- preached by tn Duchess who spoke as follows: My dear. can't recall ys'er name. nor wish to, but won't ye bring those wonderful American WriRhts to lunch tomorrah7 says she. oh. ye'er grace says tn queen iv American firm tn States that we don't know hardly annywan there. Who are these Wrightsr says she. They come firm some place called Oheeo Dayton or Dayton Oheeo. Ye have such amusin' names rr ye'er cities. says tn Duchess oh, ye mane Dayton Ohio,' says tn American arrystocrat. We iv Cincin- naty know very few people In Dayton. Oh but says tn Duchess 'ye must know those dear delightful Wrights who've anvinted those darlin' nyin' ma chimes. Ye must bring thim to me. Ye needn't mind comin' with thim. if ye don't want says she. Well, will ye believe me, Wilbur Wright wuddent
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
The Growth of Newspapers

sio0 for twenty words. and 1t took Q rich newspaper to pay the tarin.
 Practically all the papers in the years just before the Civil war hao tha same makeup" Congressional or Washington news came hfst then the European news, if 6 vessel had arrived and after that whatever little local news that could measure up to the standard of the day. There was all ways some poetry, Q chapter of novel and advertisements galore.
 Charles A Dana of the New York Sun. more than any other one man, was responsible for the revolution in the manner of handling the news. He broke away from the conventional mo- ton that Washington events. were aI- ways most important, and made each hit of news stand on its own merits as to interest.
 This movement did away with the old styie of reporting the deliberations of congress verbatim and in sequence as fs~now done only in the Congress- ionni Record.
 This way of printing the news from congress was responsible for tho fact that when President Andrew Johnson was impeached the subscribers of the New York Tribune were forced to read through four columns of untmportant matter to get to the impeachment or the president in the house of represen- tatives,
 Feats of American newspaper enter prise have astonished the world. The New York Herald sent Henry M. Stan ley to Africa to find Livingston. Not SO long ago James Keeley of the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05

hero, embodying the pride and tradi- tions of the state which he--more than any one--man made.
 The conditions of tumult and adven- ture surrounding and determining Houston's career his fitness for those magnifying process through which men are enabled to persist in hero wor- ship even in this matter of fact age. It has been said of him that he might have figured as one of the leaders or the Greeks at the siege of Troy ana that if he had been found naked upon the back of a wild horse like Mazeppa. the first tribe he came to would have elected him a prince. His virtues were adapted to the primitive life Of frontier civilization his Limitations were set by the time and his environ ment-the final result is Homeric figure that may as easily be portrayed in bronze as in Texas granite
 Sam Houston was born In virginia of Scotch Irish stock. His father who died when he was Q lad of thirteen serv ed fin the Revolutionary war and at its close was appointed major and assis- tant inspector general of frontier troops, He has been described as man of large frame, commanding pre- sence indonitabie courage. and pas sion for military life. The mother was also remarkable for her m@Enincont physique and forceful character. After her husbands death she removed with her family of six sons and three daughters to Tennessee. then the from tier. where white pioneers came into close contact with savage life. The education gained in a few months at an old field school was necessarily rudimentary. This. with Q session or two at the Academy Of Maryville, was all the schooling that the man destined to be governor of two states. president of republic, congressman and United States senator ever had. The command of strong, dignified and stirring Eng fish, which was his. must have been due to the quality of his reading, Tor he was e man of few books. AS a boy he devoured Pope's translation of the Had. When in command of the Texas army he studied Caesars Com mentaries, as did Miles Standish. an Indian fighter of an earlier day. Later he read and appreciated Shakespeare and perused the Bible so constantly that It's phraseoIogy tinged hts ora tory. Even the former president of