Show i i NEWSPAPERS S AND THEIR CRITICS Collier CoU r has an article tide on on what public men mec think of the thc newspapers There Th re is is-a is s- s sa a ag a great g e t difference in public men A 1 good m many py men obtain great wealth a good many manyi i j others obtain high offic offices s. s But no iio one would 5 think of f asking one Otie J c 0 of th se c what he lie thought of oJ iI a i great But somehow iti it I r rare re gem gem or a great p painting inting i j seems to o ordinary people th that if a man nn gets to be bea a senator or or- c n ressman or 01 governor gO or 01 some ome other high officer of or the government he on ought ht to be a go good judge of newspapers and the chances chance are he is not riot at all j J 1 The Th changes s that have come over Cl journalism in inthe inthe the list last fifty years are arc due to many things In Inthe the fi first st place their mechanical p preparation has hag been re reduced to almost an exact science It is jg simply wonderful hoa how hov a newspaper can m be made every da lay day in the week up to Sunday Sundar and then on onI prepared red reading matter matter matter mat 1 I Sunday Sundar to have splendidly prep ter to give gi to the public for 5 cents that really I contains more information of interest than the ordinary or- or dinar linary book j There was ras a t time tinie when on man man if he lie knew f a little of printing could with a la a very small sinai ex ex- 1 v start a newspaper Benjamin Franklin Horace did it and there did that that- and Greeley have el been others an and the people who saw those J papers and anti had the thc honor of reading them got all that was best in Benjamin Franklin and all that thit I was best in Horace Greeley But that is all ll they v got Now to fill the want w nt a hundred men nii m n are arc working sometimes two hundred and three hundred hun hun- dred men inen arc are working to prepare the thc morning U t pap paper r for forthie the ordinary readers and while there thay liJa Ii not t be on that whole staff one that is equal to o either of those mentioned above the aggregate I is worth a great deal more because the they w were v re rc onI only human being For instance when Horace f Greeley undertook to denounce an enemy and he hei i had h had d plenty of them it was s a frequent practice on onI onis I is part to declare that the villain lied Now for fori i instance the Des ret News does not make maIm any cha charge rge of that kind except once in a while i in iii the interest of the church but the News without any possible reason at all will lie lic like lik a villain and andi i everyone y r oue has bas the benefit of its prevarications L I- I Then we c have a little word to say of the pub- pub i i lie men men referred to As a rule they the are arc not as aswell wc well v J educated as ns were the public men of or three three score score years ago Many of or them have hav graduated from fl om universities that have ha e improved d their f cili- cili t t ties immensely in the last sixty years cars but they do donot not give their students as thorough educations as RS asI I they did then along certain lines that t tell ll There j. j j is once nce in ina a a while a senator or r representative in 5 congress who makes a speech the Ithe diction of which f compares vcr very well with that of of the old boys bos of Cf I s sixty tr years ears ago but as a rule not They lack in n logic they lack in dignity they lack in power And And then the thc chances are ten to one that they ther c do donot o not spend more than half the time reading their J newspapers n that the old men did three score years yeal's ago rhe They glance them over catch the purport i of or the dispatches and unless something arrests their t ejr eyes e s they t ey let it pass Hence they the are not dL disinterested dis- dis t interested and wise judges of the difference between be be- tween the ne newspaper then an and l now We Ve believe the paper is 18 growing better t and better We believe publishers ar are arc f beginning i to see that if the paper could be perfect t. t ever every t morning the newspapers of the land would have haye more ore influence than all the senators representatives 4 tives Lives and officers of the government combined ned And And so when we Ave look over the criticisms of Jf J hese ex experts erts our only question is By what authority au au- au 11 j do you ou criticise criticises 1 How do you know now 7 J k What is your opinion worth And no answer comes back out of or the silence to give justification for fo fc that cla class s of men to have any a opinion at all abo about t newspapers r |