| OCR Text |
Show JOURNALISM. I Is it not lovely to read in the News what con- I stitutes a perfect journalist; who when carrying on a controversy never descends to personalities, I who never deviates the fraction of a kilometre I from tho exact truth, who is actuated by I ono great overmastering desire to disseminate truth only, that the reader may be lifted up, the I world made better and poor human nature be ox- I alted; one who if he ever had a melting mood H would "drop tears fast as the Arabian tre3 their medicinal gum?" The editorial is alto- gether stately and strikes upon the listening ear, I sometimes like a fountain playing, sometimes sweet as a child's laugh and again like "sonorous I metal blowing martial sounds." But we havo a little problem which we would I be glad to have the News solve. Suppose tho B editor who has those lofty thoughts had a con- temporary editor who for years had been posing as a Christian gentleman, one who has the only true religion. Suppose that all that time he had conducted a so-called religious journal, one held by a multitude of misguided readers as a real organ or-gan of the only true church; suppose this editor in such a position had never scrupled at publishing the most outrageous falsehoods; had never fairly stated the argument of an adversary; had always assumed and charged that anyone who differs from hint or who fairly criciclees an official of his creed must be a bitter enemy of every member of it; had delighted in selecting such men as on beggarly rewards devote their lives to the welfare wel-fare and uplifting of their poor fellow men, as a mercinary and dishonest horde; had defended every rascality perpetrated in the name of his creed; had been a common falsifier of men's mo tivos; untrue in every place, had year after year stood before the law "unrespited, unpitied, unre-prieved," unre-prieved," and it should become the duty of the pure minded editor of tho News, to refer to this hypocrite, hypo-crite, liar, fraud, mischief brewer and wholesale slanderer, what terms would he select? Would "his tongue still drop manna?" Or would ho In spirit imitate the Master in the temple and with a whip of intellectual cords scourge him for what ho is and warn the public against him? There are times whon in honest journalism personalities cannot be ignored. If they wore then the hypocrite and liar and conspirator and slave would all the time have the call. The man himself shines out through the type and a pen picture pic-ture of him Is sometimes an absolutely necessary accompaniment to reveal just how much his words are worth. |
