Show minister lowell ont on tho interviewer I 1 have reached that of life when almost every man becomes more ox or less lass ie vapors aati anil and when he begins either silently or publicly to conceive or express it a considerable respect for or tho the opinion of 0 that consul whom he ha particularly lampooned am in the hot days clays of his hia couth that is probably a natural il tendency bondono y I 1 suppose that adum adam in his old daye regretted the ilia degeneracy of apples that the modern apples had not the altor sod acil the piquancy anil and war not such aids to diges digestion tio u as those which ho he remembered in his bat I 1 think there is one thing thice in which oven even those who aro pessimistically inclined i 11 say any that the world hn hai improved sad and that hat is the tha prose press it is oci eel y a long 1019 vilde from the orus grub street 10 journal al MJ day from Thac koroya picture of the pressman which is only a generation old to such a table as 48 this and to 1 1 P r 0 of the press which indi 0 a tell a higher civil and which is also justified by tho the noble manner in which it is used tho the great danger phiola thoughtful men have always dreaded from the press was the danger of irresponsible power and bla bis power has almost invariably been ill used power but I 1 must say any that in that respect the tha press hits has advanced in the right direction nod and that enoh each pu pub it BI it gives JS is more mora useful than harmful I 1 havo more mora than on onea cepro protested against the 11 interviewer who has certainly done dona what tow few men of genius have been able to do that to is to add a now new verb 1 I will not may bay whether or of not mot it is an elegant one to the jan guage but I 1 must acknowledge that he ha is frequently naef useful till anti and that lie ha enables public men out of power to make aiom v they would oth orbito be tell and when I 1 remember that tho the first great and model interviewer was boswell lio swoll I 1 confess tint my feelings soften toward the whole race f speech at the press rand fund dinner |