Show THE PRESS OF AMERICA J M greggory president of lie illinois slate university recently read before hie ahoi ci alion at saratoga ft well written article on lie american press among other things abo writer has hie following the er is i public anent it od irs to llie people for curtmn sr s r vic and nil this wo k na advertising agent and public herald il depend for its support but lo 10 reckon it as A private enterprise kiili in its public character u paper en ices into llie ranks rf the as a education has iwo clidel culture or discipline and knowledge the one comes by fit exercise of training tho otlie by whatever furni information by reflection and most all by reading with all our schools we could never be intelligent without n ws papers they frethe peoples libraries the of col sections scholars and professional men must read books woe I wool to them if hey do not read newspapers even the fragmentary frae and ephemeral its articles lends addi dional charm if not additional utility to its frehn cs anil is variety of articles lures aliu reader an it talks to men of baines bu ines their political party their church themselves the men it are their neigh bore it thus adds something of dignity to their daily live the newspaper of today to day caironi cles the movement of as well as those of men and nations all lind ft place in these schools and text books ot p fulir learning facts will sustain male of the educating power of alio llio newspaper other amig equal alie roan or family alio take anil read aorl newspapers will lo 10 more intelligent than his neighbors who do not sift from the american people alie foreign importations of non reading masses and lie remainder will ba faunl the best read and most intelligent population of the globe the newspaper is bot advocatt l as substitute fo schools but as a compliment to them the can press by men of adu rational cat ional minds will find their way into school rooms the scholar will be taught ruse and turn sli aluin more interested and moro intelligent rea lers let alio gigantic force of the newspaper be turned upon iho work of popular education let school introduce this new text book and we have at work an agency never surpassed to make an enlightened and free people As TUB republican cause grows more and more hopeless ho harper weekly becomes more and more virulent the last number contains little else than vituperative of II ancock representing him as everything that is or was in the way of tergiversation and blackguardism nast should remember that the more a combatant more tired lie will be and the more he will have to unload will vat the garfield ticket will have the privilege of going homo to vote on election days and will not be docked they will go with the republican collar on their necks and the republican brand elsewhere |