Year: 1871


pie good because they were afraid "when he grow
strong grow bad - said the savage concerning human
nature az he saw itmght not the same be said Of news
papers'


Mr. WATSON did not think newspapers became bad In
proportion as they grew strong, but the Tie
richest paper could afford to be the bravest and the
worst paper in New-York was one struggling 10 es-
tabsh the fact existence But there dan
ger about newspapers and the better the paper the
greater this became-the danger that we should
be satisfied TO get our information from them. Mr. weiss
always wanted 10 cut scraps from them, and ther
tendency 10 make ones mind run 70 scraps. Inc
dmnuton of the faculty for concentrated study may DO
largely traced to newspapers and this Is not at al le
fault OF the newspapers OF those who ere contenfed
witt mention. We are, indeed, no longer pro'ih
cia and that great gain but it is bought dearly py
the the power long aud close thinking Ihongh
itself worth quite much the results OF
Will not editor begin by and by TO deine lho PRIV
ince OF journalism, and tell people that tie! "io o'
depend on newspapers for their opinionsf MI ha'cn
the tract distributor, the always persecu'eu "u m VA
perence of his own. Long ago he carried 10 MI hS
mond Of The Ne,c York Times rather radical arucie OIL
the Sunday question. which Mr.. Raymond refuseh 10
publish though had Just printed conservative article
on the same subject 81 would not publish II, SAID Mr
RAYMOND Though You should pay for 1t at the highest
advertising rates 4" But why mott Are you opposed
10 my views Z" "By means; rather IN sympathy
with them than otherwise; but IL would never answer
for me TO print such article" About this course MI
Hatch used strong adecves, regarding the mercenary
motive Of Mr.. Raymond with the contempt natural 10
the transcendental mind for mere dollars and cents
Mr.. Tiffany thought mans profession ala not much
change his moral quality Whether he prints breaches
he will be much the same man. But the press oilers
more freedom than the pulpit because editor less
embarrassed by few subscribers who stop their paper
and are done with him. than minister is by the one OF
two malcontents in his parish who foment dissenslon
under his very There seemed no reason why an
editor who wished it, could not be tolerably honest
man. Every paper had its own constituency, and the
man who liked THE TRIBUNE would not be satisfied with
The san.


Dr. Bartol then exhcrted Mr. Robinson TO turn States
evidence and upon this hint spoke Robinson, the canstc
yet kindly. He characterized Mr. Buckingham as one OF
the few really great editors we have ever had In this
country and he thought that In comparison with thirty
years ago. the press of to-day follows the people rather
than leads them 1t must have less influence than for
merly, else why does New-YoIk so persstenty grow
worse with many OF It's papers on the right side He
agreed with Mr. Wasson the peTnicous effect OF too
| much newspaper. He read newspapers all tho time,
himself and picked up those he had thrown on the floor
| to read them again But he knew they were the
worst reading the world and II he had at all escaped
| being completely ruined by them, 1t was because he
never by any chance remembered anything he had read
Gen. Armstrong remarked that he had just been spend
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had been discussing the bondage OF the pulpit and they
concluded the escape from must be through the force
of strong convictions SO about the press II they have
strong convictions which they dare not be dsoya The
force OF truth will make them free Mrs Howe said that
10 her thinking neither pulpit press could suppaEt
the other The newspaper ia Indispensable God forbid
we should be deprived of it but the church also is
INDISPENSABLE God forbid should be deprived Of that
1t is the old fable OF the hare and the tortoise
Let the hare do tho swift running-we need the slow,
tortoise well The people mast not forget that its
business set forth nj gh ethical culture. Mr. Wasson
told the story Of young who preached In the neigh
borh0od OF Boston, and who left his pulpit 20 West
and engage upon q daily newspaper. He preached a
farewell sermon, this departing apostle in which be
from his feet the dust OF the pulpit and enlarged
eoquenty the larger mission Of the press One month
convinced him that he could not write articles which he
would recognize after they had passed through the day
editors hands, and in two months he back in the
ministry Mr. Sanborn called for the moral OF this tale,
but there answer FOR sken hutter Of departure
was Just beginning As the clock showed that in the gen.
era interest the presiding officer had forgotten TO ad
iourn the meeting, it summary adjourned itself.


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