Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-28

l that sovereignty which criticises in tellect, art, genius, glory, virtue, abr surdity and even truth itself; who- ever has ascended the tribune erect ed by his own hands, fulfilled for one short hour the functions Of cer. i sorshiD to which he is self-appoint- ! e5-that proxy of public opinion when he has been relegated to pri- ' vate life, regards himself as royalty ' exiled at Cherbourg. ."--Balzac. Every newspaper man half fit -sor | his job must be struck with the truth and the force Of the foregoing passage from the greatest man Of 1 letters since Shakespeare. It is the | highest office in profane life-editor ' of an honest newspaper of large cir | culation. and to again quote the same 1 BalZac, as there is no virtue but has | vice to match it, so there is no ! office so degrading as that of editor ! of a newspaper whose sole mission
 is to pile up the dollars, dirty or
 clean. for it's publisher. and if "ye'. low journalism" came, saw and con i quered. it was because the decent ! journal was false to its mission, or lax in the prosecution of if.
 I NtOiE L. EOllts HOW I'll tiit iil AAit'l | Of life, mental and physical. was born { in Shelby county, Indiana, the son | of a farmer. and grew up a farmer { boy. He followed the plowy he delv-
 cd with the hoe. he helped to plant ! and to reap. He attended the com mon school, and Saturdays of anr- 1 picious season he was on the stream ! let's brim, an eager and ofttimes a fortunate angler. He did chores about the farmhouse. led his comDaniOns-jn 1 the sports on the green, hunted the varmint by night or the bird by day.
 spoiled the orchard of fruit and frol-
 icked with the neighbor boys and girls at Christmastide.
 At 16, this boy. robust of health. broad sbouldered. 1.-the limbed, strong muscled, deep chested. with great big handsome black eyes thsS ! might gaze an eagle blind" for opinions sake. wrote his first com munication for newspaper! No doubt after he had finished it he was possessed of a mental lassitude that made even his fine physique weary. Exhaustion had succeeded effort, doubt had yupplanted confidencei. and fear had taken the place of hone. lie stood aghast at his own temerity when he had sought to ad- venture among the gods of hig1 Olympus.
 The long wished for and dreaded 1av came that brought the newspa- Ter, and To, it contained his letter Here was ectasy. delirious joy. fof this farm lad
 Inst al that
 youth.
 When thought is speech and speech Is truth.
 How often he read his production ! he never knew. but from the moment l De saw himself in print he was q journalist and became one Of the front rank Of the elite of the noblest of the professions.
 Yonug Bone continued to write for the paUers, and his communic9.
 tions appeared in the leading iourn- als of Indianapolis and Cincinnati. Sooner or later nearly every one gets into the walk for which nature best fits him. The divinity that i shanes our ends takes care of that. Scott one would have made an able | lawyer: he would have been a sue ! cessful politician. he would have taken high rank in the world of bus ] ines. any one of its numerous ! branches; but he was best fitted for Journalism, and newspaper man he was and is.
 | Ere he had emerged from his ! teens he was in Indianapolis, where | he sounded the entire eamut of rev. i ortorial work, from "cub" to politi- 1 cal writer. He was city editor of the ! Times, and later he went with Shoe l maker Of the Sentinel and became l political reporter for that paper. and i thus he made the acquaintance Of | the leading politicians of Indiana l Harrison. Hendricks, Voorhees,, Nc. ! Donald, New and the rest. He was [ democrat, but no blind partisan | one who could see the faults of his ! own party and one not blind to the l excellencies of the oDrosing party. In 1884 he went to the Indianapolis i News, then as now the leading paper | of the state. and here he made rap 1 i'd strides. doing all sorts Of work | and discovering those adma aable | qualities that later were to become
 so consni"uous in another and a
 wider field.
 For nearly four-score years the | journalism of the national capital was distinctively rolemic, and such 1 it remained long after James Gordon | Rennett the elder taught that the ! mission of the daily paper was to be
 a history Of yesterday. Gales and Sea- ton cOntending against Blair and ! Kendall did not seem to know what | news was. and they appeared to care
 as little for it as they had knowledge ] of 1t. They got their news of what
 was going on in congress from tho
 New York Herald that came by stage
 coach; but their editorial pages
 would have been a credit to Hazlitt ! himself It was their mission Co con
 viet, to convince, to persuade. Their ! publications were pamphlets, power.
 ful in the field of political disputa- tion, and even our great newsspers of today would be better for a more
 or less liberal infusion of the pampf.
 let of that older day.
 They were of the race of Shenken
 --the journalists of the first half of
 the last century. They said nothing
 to the wind; they wrote not upon the