New Britain herald., 1915-10-18
NEwsPAPER,-wHAT TT IS


 to slip byfunless. some one of their
 per ascends the rostrum and f1ays < newspaper. These attacks, for
 most part, embodied in discourses
 emning the laxity of the laity
 e manner of living, or the reyer-
 of the race, usually end in a
 b finale when all the sins of man.
 are gathered in one, great heap
 hurled at the newspaper,-the
 -fiend perverting modern day
 zation. And yet, in the light of
 the newspaper means to present
 life, it is difficult, for any intel
 t, thinking person to believe all
 argon, rhodomontade, and diatribe
 flows forth from the silver
 led orators of the cloth who vent
 spleens on the press.
 e newspaper, no one will deny, is bwer for good, or for evil; if ed on the scales of justice its
 deeds would easily outweigh it's
 As matter of fact, the news
 r is nothing more than chron-
 of the times, a recorder of the ent, printed voice of the people,
 ght into being because they want
 t,-it is their own child, they
 made it what it is, it represents in their every day living,-a
 or that reflects their passions,
 sorrows, their, joys, their every tion. If the newspaper is bad, people are bad; if good, the peo- hare the ones who make it good.
 II the activities of the human fam
 are faithfully portrayed each
 every day in the news br. Set down in cold type he hot-blooded action of the derer; the slow death of the starv- tramp: the cries of poorly clothed es; the heart sobs of mothers; ! giddy whirl of society: the glor- services of the churches; the ling of the flames; the sinking of aels at sea; the battle of knights l he fields; the dropping of bombs h the sky; the stealing of jewels; machinations of corrupt politi- |s. the giving of charity; the win B of athletic hampionships; the hgs of brokers; the romantic elope- hts; the birth of children; the joy he wedding bells; the beat of the eral march; the election of presi- It's; the overthrow of empires; the mt of industrial workers; the Iding of cities; the suicide of the utiful girl; the happiness of the wreck. of the train;
 all, is in the newspaper; the le, the laugh, the sob, the tear, y are all in their places, the whole nut of human emotions, dressed presented by men who devote |ir lives, just as faithfully as do clergymen, to a. calling they hold sacred, as responsible, as anything earth. That is the newspaper, h it's good and its bad, the news ,er nourished and fed by the great cries of wires that stretch to every ok and cranny of the universe, that dle the globe and bring all peo- together in the one great brother od of man. If it is wrong to do s, to teach the one-half of the rid that, previous. to the newspaper, not know how the other half was ng, then the newspaper is wrong. l 1t should De done away with. But 10 is there toSbid it go? Who is slay this. sentinel of the human ,e, that watches while the world cps and itself never rests? Who to kill this thing that is as regular the earth's revolving; that is the ne Winter, Summer, Spring and Il; that is born anew each day and never dies? Who will destroy 5 leveler of humanity, this hob- ober of kings, this dweller among
 lowly, this pal of capital, this tller of labor? 3
 Ind when every minister from now il doomsday has said his little say, newspaper will still be going on, ough the men who gave it their lins and blood will have passed way of human dissolution. And will always be the same guiding Tit it is today, the counsellor of Trail, the moulder of public nion, although, nayhap, it will be better newspaper because of the ticism of ministers. Yet, witha1, will never cease to be as dem ocratic lt IS now when it rubs elbows with
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