| Show am for fors FOE OF txie PRESS BY Y jonn jomn H KELSON the first newspaper peir was published at newba newma venice about t the c middle of the sixteenth century it was called itne ithe THE GAZETTE this was the name of it a venetian coin and the paper was sold for this s sum um although printing had been invented previous the venetian government being jealous of its influence did not the GAZETTE to be set up in type and printed but permitted to buted u ril fil li the 1 kia lna italians called their editors editor s l benanti Me e nanti 11 meaning those who spread about defamatory reflections the italians were happy ili in adopting Q appropriate depro names the first newspaper printed in england was published under tinder the of queen ellabeth eliabeth and lid ild lord burleigh july 1588 1388 it was called the ENGLISH A I 1 curious canous account Ls is given of the origin orgin of the word neles ners those early editions were small single sheets printed on one side only onix and nd besides the name and date dat at the tile top each sheet was ornamented on each corner cor ller lier with one ono of the initial letters of the cardinal oard inal inai points of the compass viz viz I 1 E W N a intimating that the organ contained c ned intelligence from the ie four quarter of the earth after a time tor for convenience and utility these letters were arranged so as sis to form the word NEWS and became the general name naine of all public papers webster derives the word from froni new yet lie he remarks under the term tidings that news denotes intelligence Intel lence from I 1 rom any quarter the primary and use of newspapers were to diff diffuse nise fise knowledge of passing events to note matters mattel s oi oien hofgen cu r crai eral interest in and to record the tile sajiu hailu a and doings of governments and public officials jerom the tho the very beginnings the public j rasa ild lia been regarded governments and tyronical tyr anical rulers with lousy eo and dread and alid it has always been their aim to gag and suppress to subsidize and control the I 1 free ree diff diffusion u of public intelligence as they saw in this mighty engine of enlightenment a powerful enemy to despotism and tile the absolute control of their slavish subjects but the forth and began to expand and it was beyond tilt tiit the power of blind blind prejudice and arbitrary craft to stop its shining or prevent its enlargement however what could not be suppressed and crushed might be obstructed and shackled moreover the press if subordinate and submissive might be used to promote opposite purposes to those of progress and liberty it was ver very ratifying gratifying to royalty to have its greatness extolled and blazoned blazoned before an admiring populace it was very convenient to nave have a ready means of adver the schemes and policy of governments but it was very disagreeable and impolitic to give the subject the liberty to express his opinion to allow comment and c criticism r itle I 1 sm it was the brer prerogative u ga of rulers to command and coe coerce ace to order and ie b e obeyed but it was a terrible outrage on their dignity and rights for the people to h have we I 1 freedom to demur to hesitate and to tall talk back nevertheless the infant giant fought his way bravely against kin kingly thorl and priestly intolerance and fir the berty liberty enjoyed now by mankind to nobly defend th their c ir interests against tyrants to represent themselves in fearless and dignified utterance they are indebted to those noble and and brave heroes who first strum struggled ded and fought who braved the dungeon the rack and the tire fire to emancipate the souls of men and give the world a free afree press the he liberty of the press was neither a sudden or complete achie but a long severe struggle otten otien wavering between victory and def defeat eat and th the e result has been beebi a sure cheering progress men of reflection and leading intellects recognized in the thu printing press a medium through which cheever the ever expanding powers and aspirations of the human soul could find expression this new victory of mans genius renius added fresh laurels and enlarged dignity to human nature new sympathies were awakened and hidden possibilities of exel excellence lence and advancement were unfolded A broader noid nield for the employment iut int of I 1 the attributes of philanthropy and bretl brotherhood was opened before tile the lovers of Finan mankind kind previously the channels chalmels oi of communication among men were wore narrow and ani the means limited those whose souls were filled with love for their fellows must call them to the forum the temple and the market place and the I 1 fervor ervyr of eloquence argument and pathos were the only means of moving men as souls of arousing sleeping ambition or combating the nna fla gralice of error and wrong now the poet the divine the philosopher could sit in the stud study yand and in the quiet of leisure and solitude speak to tile the multitude through the noiseless but patent and awful voice of theoress the press liberty felt tile the pleasing tremor of the newborn new now dorn norn impetus but as she upraised her head her iier benign smile was met by a scowl scowl wl ana and a menacing man acing 1 gesture norm irom the powers 0 i ers of barbarity and ignorance who satin a t 1 high places printers were spot ted tedi and had to hide illde themselves and manipulate their craft craf t in secluded garrets and dark cellars books were condemned and burnt newspapers confiscated and presses destroyed authors and editors imprisoned but the tile day of intellectual I 1 freedom had dawned and the tile pen which is than the sword and aud the press which I 1 is 8 stronger than prison walls and the 13 law w of liberty which is more power fuli futi thant thann priestly hate and the tyr tyrants Mits vengence triumphed the press has worked out its ts own deliverance fought its own ma battles and achieved its own victories with the ushering in of this new now epoch of civilization what a glorious future was unfolded and what visions of enchanting wonders burst upon the prophetic souls of the lovers and leaders of our race racel what opportunities for universal brotherhood I 1 what possibilities of advancement and progress I 1 Th roligh tigh the agency of ar free press nations and peoples hitherto aliens and strangers to each other felt tha the power and athy of a new fraternity tern ity there came to them I 1 from rom afar solicitude and fellow feeling and in those friendly harmonies ily ivy there ems was promise of a closer lof loftier tier brotherhood generous h barted philanthropists dreaming poets and speculating philosophers became joyful and prophetic and were I 1 full fuli till of ecstatic visions of I 1 future ut llie lile ure c progress and beatitude the tiie thought domestic in felicities I 1 cl allish feuds feuda and international would now cease all the tile knotty questions question 8 of policy could be decided and all foreign irritation be allayed b by y t the he peaceful of the pen and press there would be no more war bloodshed would henceforth be confined to barbarians in the place of fighting generals the world would have peacemaking peace making editors instead of standing armies legions of writers poets and moralists mora lists naval heroes woul would d be sent home to cultivate farms and float ing in batteries turned into mail ships libraries would take fake the tho place of armories swords after rusting in lil their moldy scabbards scab ards would be bent into harvest sickles the tile art of war be for gotten and mid a reign of peace be abed K the tile liberty of ohp tile press is one of the many victories which noble and progressive spirits have wrested from the dormant ori orl a a and 8 sluggish s I 1 e elements 8 0 of 0 old oid d and effete systems lavai it lt val was Vai the struggle of opar oppressed essed li inanity humanity to burst th the tho chrysafis chrysalis h salis of barbarism arb arism and to emerge into nto ato the free freedom am and light likht of a hig higher e r life it was the operation ot that animus ani ant is which prompted men to el elevate evater themselves el u a and ud their fellows to a hig big higher er plane plano I 1 ne of civilization its purpose was peace c dod god will and fraternity being bemm the out owing of the best attributes of the human soul its objects were wre edu education catlon cation enlightenment and the promotion ox of civility and courtesy the of truth the vindication of the rights tights liberties and good abd naine name bf the d descrying so y and the exposition and an i denaill of wrongdoing wrong doing jact a wonderful ind INV ond ono c r I 1 ul extent these alms aims have been wo worked r k e d out the world Is undoubtedly mor advanced more civilized through the aniell ameliorating orating and refining influence 0 61 the press some tall talk of a return to ta barbarism this Is impossible with a ii free press it Is alleged that utah is a community of stolid and hofele hopeless ip ignorance g norance with a more aone score of printing presses and fifty book stores all thriving busi busl business I 1 it Is congenial to man nature to gain pin knowledge e to ha have Q sublime ideas Is ecstasy to express them is no less ess a pleasure and to th the reader the there rd is a continua continuation oath delight there is nothing more mord prolific than thought A single idea will often times rimes bear a prodigious gous crop and its fruition last for ever A thought conceived in the soll solitude tude of the closet Is thrown out into the light and falls falis into food pod tha ground round the plant grows and sends orth it its spreading runners 1 it tendrils take hold of a thousand objects and a profusion prof union of intellectual is produced the rapid and universal diffusion diff of knowledge Is possible only through a swift abundant and untrammeled press with though asias as its motive ive energy this mighty engine hd lla at et in n 0 operation cration the memerous wheels 5 and shafts of material n nature for fon the con gon lenience yeni venie ence nce and well being of man at the same time it has supplier him hipa his ms dally daily feast east of spiritual nourishment and intellectual tel pleasure to a great extent therefore the sublime invention and emancipation of the printing press has hag been a X magnificent success 8 but there Is ii va no unmixed felicit licit r yin M sublunary lunary affairs and evoil even this tills am in mense good has its accompanying ecim evil into nto the stream of blessings and wholesome delights flowing from theares the tha pres the evil one has cankering mis chiefs and poisonous things the T clous cious anu hurtful crop has hag grown up with the healt ful fui ua and meretricious the liberty libeg ty to truth and correct and cn en obling sentiments have been claimed and used to spread lies and false principles liberty abused becomes license remic lons ions thoughts tl and libelous belous ll personalities put into circulation Is ig in the character of wrongdoing 7 these crimes are in the same category with treason and sedition A 4 writer or editor who excites treason or foments rebellion against established government is deemed a traitor and a rebel ebel and is punishable as such though ho he should never have brandis brandi hedva hedla hed a da dagger or attended a secret 50 arev convention when wicked malicious thoughts ad are I 1 set up in type and printed th thoy they gy are d no longer mere thou thoughts lits buthal gimo agents of mischief and aud the author thereof hereof Is guilty of wrongdoing mhd aud he who unjustly iiii justly and intentionally stabs character and wounds the spirit la is morally morall a murderer ind iad Thia duta tae Y ow ottlie press Is Is shamefully abused by eln ein prostituted prostitutes to these unlawful uses ana nna and the baneful effects of th this is abuse afe ste commensurate with the benefit acaru ingi inga from a just and proper usa use of bf its powers this agent so enno effo effectual lual laai in promoting peace and building up the c waste places of ruined friendships and decayed fraternities is employed to d in 14 i exciting animosities fostering bitterness and liate nate and intensifying sectional malevolence and wrath A de and low community and ana 1 a debusey moi mol at al sentiment might permit and sanction this license and conniver connive 1 at this public abuse but it is is none the i les ies wicked ard and ui unlawful 1 if the same amount of editorial ability hall ity and an equal bulk of literary lite iAry lary materials had been employed in explaining difficult situations expanding rf bollt allt tilt leai ical and national questions and 41 allaying ayin personal and sectional brej prejudices itna fina and conflicting interests that teat were employed for exactly opposite purposes the gr great at calamity which visited thi tha nation liatto tal twenty years ago might have been boen far less sla Yla disastrous and protracted it 11 not wholly averted having a tro tre free tree press prep there is no excuse lorjust or justification mcm uca to I 1 it I 1 for tor 0 r such i a war as that of reh reb rebellion ellion bIllon among any people but in place of being a preventive tile the bellicose tone aga aaa ald aid attitude atti dude of tile the press presa was one of th the causes of the war the two factions fact factions lont ione i were wondern w wonderfully onder fully tilly I 1 ignorant g n or n t 0 of 1 athe the pemlar peculiar condition of each ah other the masses in the south bouth had ng correct idea i of the circumstances of their northern brothers while the north understood amittie as little of the climatic and commercial contrasts which se aerated them from the tho cotton states what nv hat an opportunity was here offered for the tilo exercise otho otha mighty powers of the pen and the ress ratel to enlighten to heal and to conci but instead of adopting this wise and economical course all the violence of party hate which rankled in the souls of interested demagogues and all the spleen and caustic hitup vituperation cration which constitute the stock iu in trade of tile tiie mercenary scribbler found express expression ibn through newspapers noveis novels and until the alienation became complete were vere whipped into I 1 fury ur annd anid then the breach became so wide thata that a million must be sacrificed to fill the boody chas perhaps the worst abuse cf tho the I 1 iber lher tv of the press is wherein tuat fuat sacred light Is used as the ve vehicle c c 0 oi personal erso a spite and a cover for the vilification v I 1 cution of private character under such uses us st the p public press becomes a ve very hot 0 tied lied e for or i I 1 the breedin breeding of evils and mis chiefs l ilyin L is the delight and subterfuge hubter 2 go of 0 ojue only y the most vile and degraded characters arac wholesale Whose sale lying alyin 0 through t the tho 0 A ai 4 1 L A A x ress ress tess is the most satanic of all it gitig is M ad edib u toi tot tela telu teIa falsehood toa single individual but when a lie is printed as agthe the ink soils soils the paper and ana dit with wit each the press pross the authors author again a liar the writer ir edits w publishes falsehoods falsehood ay them to be del so aspe ib tg and eull euil gustiv L ull uli aA 49 hp may max be hired to do this by a second person rane ui fact 4 erua brua a 4 ff i ip in the oes 0 no ex til I calate the the rani yani hut elem enof enot baerst baers T tp hp acar i f As yd abye gt press I 1 is ani in and it if cah can can be maintained only bythe by the r W behlem benl sm influences and arld nobleness of at Q it forth B grea h ill lil ault unities 0 4 a gills gilis unworthy persons 0 o use it t and blid it into litto liti 1186 editors and writers b ethe besty 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