Year: 1872




cago Tribune, Nov. 81


STANLEY, THE CORRESPONDENT.


The most successful man in our period as writer
of the day bids fair to be Stanley, the HERALD's
traveller. He has earned all that he will make.
How many OF the luxurious critics who squirt elabo-
rate periods to prove him an impostor would make
his journey for his reward, even II it were insured
TO be successful in advance !? Not inferior to his
physical adventure seems to have been also his cool
and intrepid mental behavior before the
snob congress Of London critics, slashers
and geographers. The fine irony in that
sentence where he said that, If Livingstone
could anticipate the meanness Of the royal
geographers, he would never want to quit the des
ert is Just what ardent and veteran youth had the
right to report upon owlish bookmen The school
| OF reviewers In London have never confirmed any
good human conviction nor welcomed fresh ac.
cession to the world OF letters with generosity.
would rather be Stanley, the correspondent, in the
newness OF life and exploit and the discoverer OF
graphical Society. Every few years, at great ex.
pense, governments get up expeditions to recover
Franklin. This man, without authority the
moral support OF any public feeng-nothing, in
deed, but precarious reliance upon newspaper
connection-passed the boundaries OF the wran-
and became the electric link between the dscoverer
and that mankind on whose errand he went.


Perfectly successful. sangune as to the welcome
society would give him. and carrying also that sat
isfaction almost as good as conscience, which
nobody can understand but the newsman with
piece OF exclusive news-the feeling OF having
made great beat for his employer, Stanley reap
peared IN the great capital OF Christianity and
science, and what did he hearY


set of magpies with spectacles and eyeglasses
screwed down into their spleens, excaiming:-


''Hol no Come man, young man, you cawn't
expect. us, you know, TO swallow all that, you
know"


Within the proportions Of his feat stanley's per-
formance seems to me 10 have been as admirable
as anything which has been done by ad
venture in any age. He had previously dis
tingushed himself by sending news TO the British
government from Abyssinia via New YORK, carry
ing the thunderbolts away from the London Times.
And some Of the criticisms upon him were pitiul
enough to excite the contempt OF the Arabs. 1t
was gravely urged that he had once owed man
some money, and at another time had draft pro-
tested. The whole history OF adventure. from La
Sale to Bayard Taylor and Ralph Keeler, presents
Ike misortunes. reason against Stanley more
potential than any, was that he was NEW YORK
HERALD reporter Science was too fastidious to take
any help from that source, because IL was very
democratic, you know. Just as old granny Times,
In London-a superannuated, sermonZing, OLD
bedquiit OF stockjobbery and cant-heids its
nose to the Telegraph which prints four copies
to its one; Just as the New York paragrapher,
from his lunch OF beans and pork, looks at
the western press with little peri-wnkly stare OF
detraction-so does the Society of Mutual Admira-
ton regard the HERALD But that Is an old and
exploded trick, wherewith conceit deudes not
even ITSELF II the New York Nation, the Times
PhrenOtoJcdl Journal and the Herald or Health
were all TO expire by sympathy simultaneously
they would not make gap as great as the suspen-
sion oil the HERALD for one week. Enterprise is
greater than criticism. The reviewer, the hts
torlan and all the caboode are after all secondary
and dependent personages to the great news,
which is the compass OF all forms OF action The
HERALD In the Stanley errand has OF Itself taken
step new and magnanimous over Its past record.
IL has not been animated by its former sensitive
policy OF hiding the names OF It's most vindicated
contributors. The impersonality OF Journalism was
always an afiectation.