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Show B - - 1 ,m,.n. . , AN ADDRESS ; i. ON NEWSPAPERS B I3y J. B. Stoars of tho Nicholas- H villc (Ky.) News. H Tho average conversation in H the printshop may somewhat H vary from that carried on in H banking circles and in any other H branch of mercantile life, but H why should it not be so? Tb.t? H printing office is nn educator for H the outside world. Just as the H educational institution has its H curriculum, its varied branches for mental development and tho H corresponding lingo for each, so Hj the nowspnpor ofHco has a vcr-H vcr-H tuvoular all of its own that might H be Greek to the uninitiated. H It molds public opinion, makes H .'mid undoes divorce suits, tells M nvhat is going on in the financial HI world, throvva the cloak of char-M char-M ity around the unfortunate in 1 life, helps to bring the latest in-B in-B ventions beforo tho mosses and H in other words is in thorough M touch with all branches of enter-H enter-H prises. H The influence which radiates H from a well conducted printing B offico is far greater than that H which comes from any other H branch of trade. In other words, H brethren of tho nowopaper fra- H tcrnity, what would any com- H munity be without n newspaper! H ofiice? t might have the best! H banking institutions in tho coun-j H , try, tho finest equipped stores, j H the best men and women, the H most refined people, but who H would ever know it? Thero H must bo Bomobod to tell it. H Tho newspaper cflice. ii eon- H ducted on the right basis, stands H for the higher and nobler things H of life. It can expose tho rot- H tonncss in political lifo as no H othor voice can do. It can tear 1 . tho huxhI from Ue pupltknd. Urjhypoof-- nmi-r JlfilT V -T """place. H L Tho printshop stands abreast H J today with the nobler things of H ' lifo and is still extending its Hj arms, 'reaching after tho very H; best to be had. A county paper H t . as a good title to gentility. It H; i moots its obligations, wears no H; fcj man's collar, makos no distine-j B tion between tho rich and poor, i B f pays its honest debts, smilos at j H; lJ tho delinquent aubseriuer who is r: prohaps ten years in arrears and ! B; ;& then after his death (and ho K v goes to a hotter place than this) i eulogizes him as you would the i , most sainted person. j m k There is the wrong idea pre-1 fl v vailing in tho world that the ; H columns of a newspapor should ' H l be used gratis; that the cost of H l operating a paper is conipar- H ativelv nothing. Tho fact is H tk thore is no public business as HH- J? much imposed upon as a nows- H , paper, for if Brother Jones, who H i has been one of tho most dis- j H fij soluto characters in all the com- H munity, passes away the editor1 H y is expected to hold him up as a Hp man of unimpeachable life and m f eay that, in his death, what is i & uur 'oss nolvoa's gain. H p If a wadding occurs tho bride j H h -, must bo pictured not only as a H woman of rare beauty and culti-1 H valed voice, but one who is -Kft "" noted for her many uetsof kind-' IHlr"' noss, when at the same time tho H editor is awaro that hor face is HlB , as freckled as a turkey egg and her voice resembles the screoch- BB r Again, the first arrival in tho HK home must recejve the most com-' HH plimentary notice, whether cross HH ;" eyed or homely as a Chicago! HHn fi lamppost. ' HH f Sacred history tells us that St. ' aKBm Peter was a newspaper man, and, ' H ' brethren, when you reach the' BHH gates of the now Jerusalem and i BBHp - ,,MI, ask for adinittnuco and yi u in-i in-i form St, Peter that ycu spent most of your life in this world in the journalistic field tho gatos; will swing ajar and tho great I anthem of heaven will peal out, ! while St. Potor will say:' "Enter in. Thou hast misrepre-1 seated many things, told many n falsehood, made tho ugly look J pretty, tho demon angolic, but with all thy faults I love thee still." |