The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1927-05-27
MINNESOTA NEWSPAPERS ACTIVE
IN STATES RAPID DEVELOPMENT

Q6SOld. 1t was lSSuSu June L, 1919.
1t was an organ of the Wing party,
On December 10, 1850, D. A. Robert
son, afterwards Mayor of Saint Paul
began the publication of the Mime
sofa Democrat.
The st. Anthony Express appeared
in April of 1851, the first paper in the
district which is now Minneapolis.
The first woman editor in Mime
sofa was Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm
who in 1857 started publication of
1.-THE st. Cloud Visitor. Her rabid
utterances against the evil slavery
caused some commotion, and even
tually her printing plant was thrown
into the river. She got a new outfit
and kept on, but her way was stormy,
and finally she sold out to w. B.
Mitchell who changed the name to
st. Cloud Journal.
Territorial Newspapers
In the territorial days before Min
nesota became a state, seventy-six
newspapers were started. The fol-
lowing are still in existence:
Saint Paul Pioneer Press, started in
1S49.
Sank Rapids Sentinel, started in
1854.
Winona Republican, started in 1856.
Chatfield News-Democrat, started in
1856.
Houston County Chief. started IN
1856.
Mankato Free Press, started in
1856.
Saltwater Messenger, started in
1856.
Hastings Gazette, started in 1857.
Mantorville Express, started in
1857.
Monticello Times, started in 1857.
Freedom County Standard, started
in 1857.
Red Wing Republican, started in
1857.
Wabasha County Herald, started in
1857.
There are some notable instances
of pioneer editors continuing their &C
tivities into the present generation.
Editor w. e. Easton Of the Stillwa-
ter Gazette has been in active SER
vice on that paper for period of fifty
seven years. G. A. French has been
in the game Sc years, and editor of his
Monticello Times for AZ years.
Four Minnesota men have been
presidents of the National Editorial
B. Herbert, founder of
the N. e. A., Will Wilkie, Herb Ho-
falling and Herman Roe, and Herb Ho-
falling as longtime secretary Of the
national organization is recognized as
the handspring Of its great success.
Association Progressive
The Minnesota State Editorial As
ISOLATION was established through the
effort of Daniel Sinclair of Winona in
1857 and to-day has reached its high
est peak and is stronger, better, more
influential than ever before. By the
creation of state field agent year
ago it began type Of service to the
press of the state that is making it
indispensable to the individual news
paper of Minnesota.
The first, second, third and seventh
districts of the state have active dis
trict organizations, while the North
ern districts are covered by the North
ern Editorial Association. All o.
these associations are active and help
full.
The present generation of Mime
sofa editors is achieving in the spirit
of the pioneers, and such men as
Mabe Moreaux, Gunnar Bjornson, ].
v. Weber, Herman Roe, Rudolph Lee,
M. ]. MCGOWAN, H. q. Mitchell, ]. R.
Landy, L. A. Rossman, j. C. Morrison,
Carl Eastwood, Phil Leisch, Joe Rey-
nolds and hundred others are writ
ing new and splendid chapter in the
history Of Minnesota Journalism.
The so-called "country-press" of
Minnesota today represents the most
devoted and most efficient agency of
community-b boosting in existence, and
the type Of service being rendered is
on higher plane than ever before.
Never has the whole spirit of the press
been as unselfiish, as social in pur.
pose, as dedicated, as at present.
Two main developments have pro-
crossed during the last generation.
There has been wedding out of the
newspaper man who took up the pro-
fession as a makeshift. Today the
editor Is a newspaper man,
and business newspaper-man. The
hit and miss arrangements of for
mer time have disappeared and jour.
nalism today is both profession and
a business.-a business which under
competition and growing expense has
been obliged to become business-like
in its operations.
A New Day DaWns
The day of editorial vituperation
has largely passed; and, too, the
newspaper of today is not blindly
partisan. The spirit of constructive
service has finally crowned the long
efforts of noble editors to make Of
their profession a public utility in the
best sense. The Minnesota news
paper of today Is human institution,
and the editor is man who by study
and devotion seeks daily to capture a
larger vision of the growing world and
its needs, and cleaner purpose Of
contribution to the common good.
Richard Lloyd Jones once said: 1.-THE
only thing that makes a newspaper
great and powerful is an attitude of
reverence toward life" Minnesota
newspapers today as a whole repre-
sent this high ideal, and no organ
ixation in existence is doing more to
supplant hatred with confidence, bit
terness with understanding: prejudice
with patience; or contributing more
theoretically and competently to the
creation of a common sentiment of
citizenship for the upbuilding of bet
ter conditions in Minnesota. Under
the able leadership of Vim Weber, the
new president of the State Associa-
tion-a master printer and fearless
and able editor-the ensuing year will
be one of increased activity for all
editors, and of increased service to the
entire state of Minnesota.
Minnesota's natural resources make