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Show The Journalist. i The following sermon is credited cred-ited to Frank Crane, the noted writer, is interesting in that it gives Mr. Crane's estimate of the high and lofty mission of a real journalist: I am the journalist. 1 sit as the watcher upon the heights and look with calm eyes over all tho activities of men. I do not judtfe, I record. I do nut praise or blame. I tell. I am the world become vocal. I am the utterance id' humanity. I am progress pro-gress self-conscious. I am as n white searchlight upon a tower. I run my gigantic 0ye to and fro above the city. My ray is un-escapable. un-escapable. W hen my beam is turned upon the doings of the wicked there is a mighty scampering, as when an old piece of plank is upturned in a summer field 1 1 myriad white insects scatter, seeking seek-ing the proctective darkness they love. Wrongdoers dread me more than they dread courts, policemen, and prison. pri-son. For I do not condemn. I simply tell. The ethics of my profession may be told in the one word truth. My integrity must be as the virtue of women above price. No man can buy my light. No man can buy my silence. I am not in the thick of affairs. I sit above them. I have nothing to do with yonr stock market, your business yonr politics, your religion, your organizations or-ganizations and institutions except to tell of them. I have no responsibility for your causes and moements except to report re-port the facts. 1 am among you but not of you. I gaze upon hnmanity as the moon !ook upon the earth. I am the eternal bystander. I am the recording angel every day is the day of judgment. I am not the magistrate, nor the i advocate, nor the bailiff at the daily assizes. I am the court reporter. My business is not to teach my fel-i fel-i low men, not to lead nor influence them, it is to utter them. My voice has weight only as it i ! speaks to the heart of the people. I represent the invisible czar of a j free people public opinion. IF I do not speak what the people , think I am dead; no amount of subsidy, sub-sidy, nor of patronage, can vitalize me. I live, I have power, only as I represent the people. I am the flower of democracy. With out me no people can be self govern- ing. They cannot become conscious of themselves. All tyrants, bosses, kings, rulers, ' all who would impose one will upon tin' many, fear me, for I am the roar of the multitude. I speak not for one class or another, nor for the good or the bad; I speak for the priest and for the pariah, for Gontilo, for Socialist and conserv-the conserv-the banker and the tramp, for Jew and votive, for lawmaker, and lawbreaker for saint and sinner. I cannot be better bet-ter than you all. I am no worse. l am torchboaror and tranamltor. I am the messenger. I am Mercury. Jove is the people. I am No fidget and no reformer, just A calm observer of aught and must. Through me you judge yourselves. |