Show S JOURNALISM AND POLITICS In an address recently delivered be before before fore tore a class of ot students at Yale Tale uni nat university university Colonel George Harvey Harve editor of ot Harpers Weekly Vee discussed Journal JournalIsm Ism and politics It was his judgment I I that the newspaper man should keep out of the personal per nal side of politics that he hI should never become be ome a candidate any office He continued con That true Journalism and the pol politics politics that seeks personal advancement are art not and qin not be made mado cooperative cooperative cooperative tive from the radical difference In their very natures and the impossibility of 0 reconciling what should be the Ideal Idealism Idealism ism of the one with the p of the other they must be essentially antagonistic That in fact they the are is evident The chief If it not Indeed the i sole aim of the tho politic a is to win the favor r of or the majority To achieve this purpose he lie does tines not scruple in the lan Ian language language guage of his craft ho hOi keeps k eps his ear eart to t the ground and the magnitude of his success Is ir Ii asur 1 I by bythe the shrewd shrewdness shrewdness ness with which he lie o divines popular ten tendencies sufficiently in advance of their manifestation to ap ar to be he bethe bethe hethe the leader of a movement t tP tj establish newly wh discovered principles rather than thana a RIO a skilful conjecturer of ot evanescent popular pl ular whims jt tt follows follos necessarily that the he Jour Journal journal journal nal animated by any other than a like motive that Is the desire to profit from pandering to mobilized selfishness is so hateful to the aspiring politician that in his view it must be discredited Hence the frequency and virulence of assaults upon newspapers which for one reason or another dis from views expressed by politic politicians Inns ians sometimes no doubt in sincerity but always alwa s In hope of or currying cur public favor Tho The reasoning of ot such a Jour Journal journal journal nal is seldom combated a mere ques quos questioning questioning of or Its motives is deemed and generally is found toun to be vastly more efficacious c So It often happens in even these enlightened days that a newspaper newspaper newspaper per undergoing no change In control may today toda be b pronounced patriotic and devoted to the cause of ot the people p ople and an tomorrow be denounced as a servant of or special interests and an enemy enem of f the country count in precise accord with its defense or criticism of or political meas mea measures measures ures pros and men There is a good deal of ot sound truth in Colonel Harveys Harn ys remarks General Generally ly speaking he should not be b an of officeholder officeholder officeholder or a candidate for office The temptation to stand well veIl with the majority even eon if a sacrifice of ot per pe Ional convictions Is involved is often irresistible At the th same time Ir It does not necessarily follow that be because because because cause a newspaper nO man Is In politics his paper must be dishonest The news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper man who Is Intrinsically honest will Ill be he honest whether he Is in pol politics polItics polItics or not But after atter all very few responsible editors or managers of ot newspapers ever eyer do get Into politics as seekers It ItIs Itis itIs Is a very e well known fact to the news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper profession at least that a news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper connection Is a handicap rather than a help to political preferment In Inthe Inthe Inthe the course course of ot his work It Jt often oCten becomes the duty of the newspaper man to print items that are painful to t those about whom they are written edito editorial Editorial rial slat policies are unpopular with people ople who are attacked It is human nature to remember an injury and forget forgot a favor Nobody p knows know this better than the newspaper newspaperman man Let him declare himself an as aspirant for tor anything In l the theUne line of pol politics and his enemies are always ac actively actively actively at work while those he has be befriended befriended befriended through his paper are very bUs bust with their own private affairs The topic brought brough before the public by Colonel Harvey Haney will always be an ac academic academic one for Cor the reason that news newspaper paper aper men know the situation too well wel to get into it except for the purpose I of ot helping somebody else |