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Show A GREAT JOURNALIST. 1 Among the prominent features which dlstin- I guish the editorials of tho Deseret News two are 1 deserving of being singled out and' specialty men- m tloncd. One is their subtile humor. It must be remembered remem-bered that the News is the Lord's organ, hence i any transparent pleasantries on the part of the News would cause a shock to all devout readers. But we are told that art in perfection is so dls- i guised that it does not seem art at all, but absolute ' nature. For the one perfect exemplification of 1 this In this yet somewhat crude region, the inquirer in-quirer must read an editorial in the News on the holiness of truth; how It is the chiefest essential in editorial writing and how when it is departed j from so muoh as a hair's breadth, the journal that permits it, plants in the journal itself the first germs of degeneration and decay. Right there I !!! I y 111 the humorous side of the question comes to the j j I minds of those who know that the News has ilour- K f I jjljl H ' ished for something like two score years under Hf I frill Mil tho directIon of tnG Present editor. As such read- B ( ' Mil ff f ers Peruso tne solemn sentences and then reflect B I i I 1 fui ! how taat accomP"sll0d word manipulator has B It iff never failed, when necessary, to make "the worse B If 111 I appear the better reason to perplex and dash ma- H. 1 1 I ? II I turest counsels," and with "a sad sincerity" has m li 1 1 1 f j I! ' deplored the necessity of making the explanation, K f f f I 'i 1! ! then they laugh, for they imagine the sub-soil hu- Hi 4 f 1 li ii mor In tne s0ul of a saInt that feels he must for B , J lllj I Christ's sake conceal his real sentiments even B ! Ill ft I when giving way to his dominant proolivities. Bjt 1 Hi II ii Those editorials are famous another way. The H !' II y writer of them Is generally controlled by his in-BBif in-BBif 1 111 I If nate malice and cowardice. His perpetual desire Bb ' fill iff s to say sometnmS mean about all who do not Hi lilljf! I' get baPtIzed and Pay tithing, his perpetual fear I ifflfl if is that if he Iets himsolf out some one wIthout H I Hll ' I respect for his character and high priestly of-H of-H ! If i 1 ce someone wno "wears brass nails in his broil bro-il I nil 1 I gans, will make it necessary for the editor to eat B f 1 If I 1 nIs Dreakfast off the mantleplece for a week, so HI I ! m! f I ne comPromIses lth these warring forces in his HI f ' fill I nature and insinuates what fearful things he HI' I til I ! might reveal were it not for the native forbear-V forbear-V - 1' 'fl anco and self-respecting dignity which are inner-H inner-H I 1 5 , i ont within him, and for the deeper reason that IB I 1 I ' I II nIs relISion teaches only love, long-suffering un-Ml un-Ml 1 111 Ii"! der revlllnSs and the DQl'ef that even the worst Hlr 351 1 i llii men may be refleemd under the friction and mu-I' mu-I' III 1 Hll tations of the never-ending, slow-rolling ages of HP m I IS tne hereafter. HI i It I 98 Anci wnen ne finishes a dissertation of this Hi' i 1 31 lclnd kQ rememDers the Irish editor who assailed, Hi Ji 1 Hill ' through his journal, with indescribable coarse in- Hli it I Hill vective an old lady. IS ? If I Hilt "But do you lcnow tuis ladv?" asked an ac- H2 m fjljl quaintance who saw the manuscript. B $ fit "Devil a bit," was the reply. H tu Wl "Then why do you write in this way?" was If flilsM asked. Hl'4 H llll J Tlie answer was: "She has a sou, who the other Htfl m In If night twisted my nose, and when he reads that, HI! 3 Mill If no bas the splrIt of a man in lllm ifc wil1 cut HI m I III hlm to tho quick-" K M I I Mr. Pullitzer, it is said, intends to found a Bit S i 11 school of journalism, but that school will not in a BR lr h thousand years turn out such a journalist as has B IS blessed the News for lo, these many seasons. |