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Show dertood. 'Corrupt. :nd contented,' used in description of me of the recent re-cent despoilers. hurt those men nud opened the mind of the people to the extent of the corruption. " PRAISE FOR NEWSPAPERS. In speaking to the remark of "Our Greatest Critic," Byrce, about "that dark, ugly cloud that hangs over the American Nation," politics. Dr. John Graham Brooks, at the Art Gallery last evening (Brooklyn Institute), paid high" compliment to the press as h cleansing agent. Iu this he included the weekly and monthly magazines, mentioning men-tioning many by name, with the names of writers who have been most influential influ-ential in exposing political crimes aud their many ramifications. He mentioned especially the advance in conditions in St. Louis, which have-been have-been helped materially by exposure of a certain form of workingman'a insurance in-surance now being made by a wetklv. Of the awakening of the moral con-sciousnes con-sciousnes of the Nation over thce and other presentations of rottenness. Dr. Brooks said: "We have literallv taken the lid off and looked into the abvss i and been shocked. We have not the collego men to thank for this exposure, but the newspaper reporters. Professors Profess-ors now go to them for information. The press in this country means something some-thing entirely new to our foreign critics. crit-ics. There ia a new note recorded in it. Well educated people now in newspaper i work use stinging sentences; they make the power of the English language un ) a |