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Show PRESS WIPES OUT v ! HATE OF SECTION; I I DECLARES BREWER j NEW YORK, May 11. The World Sunday Sun-day Issued a 136-page edition, said to be the largest paper ever printed, to mark Its twentieth anniversary under Mr. Pulitzer's management. Besides a review re-view of the past, prophecies are published as to the next twenty years, the contributors contribu-tors being ex-President Cleveland, Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of England; Eng-land; Justice David J. Brewer of the United States Supreme court. John Jacob Astor. Sir Charles DUke. M. P.: Cardinal Gibbons, Right Hon." W. E. H. Leckey, Bishop Potter, Admiral Dewey, Gen. Miles, Julia Ward Howe, Alexander Graham Gra-ham Bell. "Whltelaw Reid. St. Clair Mc-Kelway, Mc-Kelway, Gen. Charles H. Taylor, ex-Presldent ex-Presldent Kruger, Sir Robert Ball, Andrew An-drew Lang, members of the Cabinet, Senators Sen-ators and experts tn almost every field of endeavor. " In its review of material changes In the World under Mr. Pulitrer's direction, some figures never before published are given. The total income of the World when Jay Gould sold it was $7509 a week, but In the twenty years of Mr. Pulitzer's direction the total income of the World has been J62.008.244. It is said this Sunday edition of the World will weigh about 500 tons and will cpst more than $50,000.- Among the contributions is- the folJow-ing folJow-ing tribute to American newspapers, written by Associate Justice David J. Brewer of the United States Supreme court, on "The Effect of a free Press on American Life": j , "First The effect the press has had on the recent advance in American life has been in realising the constitutional purpose to form a more perfect Union.-Forty Union.-Forty years ago a bitter civil war prevailed. pre-vailed. North and South were enemies. Now sectional animosities are disappearingpatriotism disappear-ingpatriotism is, becoming universal. The North eulogizes Lee: the South venerates ven-erates Lincoln. New York respects Bry an : South Carolina honors Hoar. We are becoming truly one people. What has brought this about? -Knowledge of each other. We may hate those we know we never love those we do not know. The press which tells us each morning what all do and say, helps us to know each other. New York knows New Orleans and San Francisco as well as It does Brooklyn. Without the press, even with the telegraph and the . postofflce what strangers we should be. .Knowing each other, we. find how much alike we are-some are-some defects, some excellencies. So, by bringing the American people into a more Intimate acquaintance, the press has been making a more perfect Union. Second In grappling with social conditions con-ditions and Questions, disease, ignorance, crime and poverty have always existed. We used to accept them as inevitable and thank God we escaped. Now we ignore ig-nore fate and strive to Improve. The Nation Is wrestling-.with these problems. It is In the throes and sweat of struggle. The press informs .of and inspires every effort. Each laborer knows he Is not working alone, and Is given the encouragement encour-agement and strength of , co-operation. Only through such is there possibility of success in the solution of these problems. "Third In .the evolution of court of public opinion, the court mightier than any organised tribunal, at whose bar are judged all men, events and purposes. Here the press does mighty work. It collects the universal opinion, announces Its conclusions, and whirls them against all for gioora or Klory. These facts speak much for the uplifting of the. Nation, and In each 4he preas has been one, I n6t the great factor. May it continue Its work, promoting national unity, hastening the (solution of the great social problems and bringing all matters before the court of public opinion, a court of increasing wisdom wis-dom ana power." |