NEWSPAPER ks ap rov edward 1 isaid a paper on the of eitl zen before a meeting of the them massachi Mass achu se etta ats council of the american in r Iti tutty r pf CJ vies dr ba bale ae is ii a fl tain n of extensive learDi learning tig and i is W divine bia utterances upon any important subject arc art therefore valuable the system of 1 be he saje says Is only the foundation of necessary education the education iu fuell alf must continue ablo ai lon as the citizen levei laiad in ad ditieri dit iori to this foundation continue continued clr a shale 1 there are four other point points which must steadily stra dily be burnip in mind the first of cf thee ia in the study of ot citizen man and citizen woman the history of today tody to day hould should be studied before the bis his tory of put ages and the medium through which this can be accod iribe is abe newspaper n dr hale it ota correctly that the history of a manor womans onn own state or coun try be studied filoi that it ie is a wrung wrong 1 cinci principle rin ciple life tu to study ancient hit history tory and i neglect the modern next i in order orda fromes ii inies a atay of th the local loca I 1 institutions of a citi citizens zeua home homp which can be by be 6 corning conversant with the docial soc i al order of the place where he resides the fourth proposition advanced by the learned gentleman an i u the news paper he regards it as a most important factor in the location education of the citizen liften ant and in the course u of bis his remarks upon this i object he aid said bae I 1 may naive name next the newspaper newt newe paper aa as a text book coming in fresh free honce a day or once a week in the great school of the citizen a school which is always open and which need have no holidays it is is 1 t the newsy newspapers apers they find holes each in the others armour and they are very fon d of showing how it would be possible to improve the press of the nation in all hallwhich which mutual censure there 36 is much truth very much but the central truth is here thattie that abe people of america have understood wod that everything done by their government must be openly done they have established their news bew 1 s papers thai that they may know the history of each day as it goes by this was wits what they wanted this is what they have gained there the result as we see it today to day would have been bien called impossible by john adams or by franklin or by morris or by washington ington by an any y of the statesmen of bf years ago igo tsy 2 those who looked for forward ward most hopefully into nto the future the roan man who reads the average daily news paper of america cart carefully fully who preserves preserve ii ie in order its more important matters of history or of social order reads reade I 1 tn in a year more which is of import for the duty ofa of citizen than the greatest statesman of the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries read in ten years or could read butle 1 ar davison sully eich rich A aliett lieu on an lla zarin nay colbert or necker valpoe or pitt hadnot at command tuch resources for lorral forming fig an opinion in statecraft aj the file of a great daily journal and as to the number of students in scho 0 le lef it be remembered that the daily pree pre ente itself every ciery where it will be read you shall not escape it to show how far its iti power goes as an instructor talie e al lt vib bik on a it sing single lid day y abe number of votes div ago for mr Cl cleveland Oveland mr blame aud sud the be other candidate for the in new now E england I 1 was about A retti rn haq fi forne 16 by ky competent person i 1 with tit abond good I 1 es ine that W anu niber 6 of dail P nearly nea fly ss as W j largo large was that day printed and dis tribute in mew new edgland and nut not that day anty but day flay by day through every year the tito precise statement ie is that the number nf daily papers amounts sto aalf pr if qui q e f ob in in fo 0 o this t influence ace of ahn newspaper I 1 over pu public alic O 0 opinion A dr hale said he believed the newspaper in in its own arguments didiot didt did not 4 mold public opinion 10 u b but ut through the information supplied by the news paper the public id is enabled to form its own opinion and it is offee or fhe newspaper newspaper tren na efto to reflect that opinion upon this i la subject be he expresses himself as follows itis well worthy of note that tb the public in its ons is is ve very ry little by the leading articled tic ticked leit ip in it takes the ta facts which the daily press collects fur for it but seems to be very indifferent to I 1 its te counsels thus gen eral butler was elected gov arnor tuf blass ac Z hi isettA an in a year when not a single paper in the commonwealth advocated bis his elect election iod it is an amusing though nut not important fact that in the next year when hl bia friends bad had obtained obtain edthe the support 0 of i Z one new paper of large circulation helas ie was defeated the election elections in the city 1 I i new york show ow that iloine some bf luf the journals of the largett circulation in the world baye an influence absolutely 1 demable aw ibe vote as it appears in the elections ions thil this opinion however is somewhat qualified when he refers td the editors in the following language guage these directors of will look at their great problem from dil different Grent points ofviey of view and with prejudices that must be expected nay it is ii belter better 4 I that it sh so 80 1 the editor of a free trade journal will wish and ought to wish that lib his pupils chati agree with him the editor of a protectionist it journal will try to make his readers take taki his hii opinions such differences must be and ought tu to be but there are certain fl tun un da mental prin principles caples on which they must all arev a a g rev and which constitute what it i ii fair to call the american system dr halee hides paper as a whole is a good one and bis his opinions meet with acceptance in many quarters his views in reference ito to newspaper are remarkably clear while bis his advice in regard to education in in general will bear careful investigation vesti gation and if adopted would product encouraging results