The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-08-11

Lord Morley met ghost OF MS
dead self the other day that told him
a thing he was obliged to contradict.
lie was due to speak on the subject
of Literature and journalism" at
meeting of the Imperial Press Con-
ference recently held in London.
Before committing himself before
that body, so he says, he consulted
the oxford Dictionary on the subject
of literature, and there found himself
quoted and thereby, at amy rate,
handed down to Immortality as hav-
ing said that literature is the most
seductive. the most deceiving, and
the most dangerous of all profess
sions." He went ON to assert that
it is many years since he had COM
mitted himself to that perplexing
survived that thought Continuing,
he seemed to find some comfort for
his inconsistency in quoting Carlyle
on both sides of the subject of jour
speech in the London Times We read:
you know Carlyle used very diff
ferent language upon that. In one
place very often he said, is not ev'
cry able editor ruler of the world,
being as he is a persuader of it"
But then he said on another occa-
sion, when Some young friend told
him that he was going to embark
upon journalism, Oh journalism is
ditch-water' Sometimes I am in
clined to think that it is"
Proceeding, Lord Morley endeavor-
ed to show the qualities of journal
ism that can not be tolerated in lit
erature. that, In fact. constitute the
line of demarcation. He says:
journalism. I was told the other
day by an eminent member of this
conference. a home member. is lit
erature in hurry; and he taxed me
with having invented that saying. I
do not agree with him. You have to
go a great deal deeper than that. If
literature has one particular quality
more than another in this regard, it
is that it is not in hurry. Journal.
ism is and must be in a hurry; lit
erature is not. Literature deals with
the permanent elements of human
things. A journalist has to take the
moods and occasions OF the hour and
make the best he can of them. But
literature more or less describes the
attitude of a Judge; the Journalist
dealing with what are called live is
sues has to be more or less of an
advocate. Literature deals with
Ideals, the journalist is a man of &C
ton. He Is not a student, but a man
of action, and he is concerned will
the real; and if he is wise journal
list. as we all are, he will understand
that what he takes or mistakes fol
the real is not half as real as a great
deal of what is ideal Would any
body deny that there are half a doz
en- lines of Burns which have more
effect upon political thought and &C
ton than all the millions of leading
articles that have been written in
Burns country and even in the south
ern part of the island? Far more
potent is literature It's business is
to furnish cure for conventional
rhetoric; the journalist must more
Or less follow conventional rhetoric.
There is, however, a common de
nominator, which this astute practi
toner of both journalism and liter
allure thus points out:
But when all is said the literar,
element, in its truest and wides
sense, is what makes all the differ
ence in the world between the ed
tor or the writer and the newsbo
who is shouting scareheadlines a
the street-corners. 1t is the presenc
in the mind and among the talent
of the editor and his writer's, the pres
ence of literary elements which OF
viously makes the difference betwee
them and the Juvenile newsmongel
] was challenged the other day t
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