Show NEWSPAPER the editor of the sew york times lately address edthe students of dartmouth college on the art of newspaper making it may be that some ol 01 his hearers in time to come will essay the art of which mr miller talked but it will be to find that while art has rules the artist is born not made the capable journalist like the capable painter or sculptor is a creature endowed with a peculiar instinct ho works by rule it is true but not the most assiduous attention to rule will make a sculptor out of him whom fate endowed with the instincts of a merchant A man may preside successfully over die affairs of a great newspaper may add to its circulation and influence may even create a new fores in journalism and yet err when lie ventures apon a discussion of the laws which regulate and govern tho power and scope of the press ot every great general is a competent authority upon the theory of war there are plenty of men whose practical ability is attested by wonderful success but whose ions of the theory governing practice are faulty aud we are fain to class mr miller with these this certainly is a false theory it is an easy matter in a largo city to give large circulation to 1 newspaper you hayo merely to dismiss all scruples all taste all decency print all the scandals that a large and active corps of detective reporters can unearth let your pages leek of crime and foulness and cheap sensations and so long as the society for the prevention of crime keeps its hands off tho bounding circulation of your newspaper will keep your affidavit maker at the full stretch of his powers the truth is otherwise than mr miller supposes the powerful newspaper everywhere is the cleanly newspaper tho people with cleanly tastes are the majority of the people it is very long since a foul aboken and mendacious newspaper achieved any notable measure of success |