Show NEWSPAPER advancement icet Is idle to refer in lengthy terms the w wondrous work of jagt the mighty power whiten wielded by the press beuce being a truism it is unIv ersial erswood er stood looking over the field flay y and then turning back to the when but one newspaper was pub bribed d in america it is observed at a ce that in no respect has the coun advanced more rapidly than in the ober ber of improvements made in and power of its publications ye also observable that every stage four lour progress has had the press as its inguard its incentive and its krotec fc when benjamin franklin pro leed to begin the iconoclastic work ich was designed to strike down in the field of journalism and fee it free to all who had the ability I 1 means to enter this tad 9 by estaba ang ng a journal of his own he was headed abed by a wise observant friend vouchsafed the information that paper was enough for this country iuie e chadee of that man could only sk down or up as the case may be tsee see us now K is shown by a statistician that th ibuan wa aggregate circulation of the ers of the world is calculated to be copies to grasp an idea 8 magnitude it may be stated jk t it would cover no fewer than re miles of surface that it is ed on tons of paper and ter that if the number f represented instead of copies see sec tt it would take over years tor for am to elapse we are shown by ft bits that in lieu of this arrange it we might press and pile them cany upward till gradually reah rean h far aur highest mountains topping peble and even the highest alps alie he would reach the magnificent iff ft fr of miles or in round num BNO miles calculating that the rge man spends live five minutes read s paper to im the day thesle this th Isle Is a very I 1 e it to is found that the peo f the e world altogether occupy time equivalent to years reading the papers no wonder this is an age of intelligence and advancement the little hand press on which the first newspaper ever published west of the missouri river was printed is still in the possession of its original owner the deseret news company it is a puny looking rickety affair and compared with its successors of today is as asa a toy wheelbarrow alongside a great locomotive but it filled its mission and filled lit it well blazing the trail in the wilderness and opening the way to a field which now is superior to all others in the number of newspapers published in proportion to population atle press presa has long been on the retired list resting undisturbed upon its honors well won and worthily worn |