Show FUTURE OF journalism on the occasion of abo twenty third nanual convention of the now york aws association whitelaw Whit eliw delivered fan able on the future cf journalism he took the ground that the ton of lie next decade would consist in a of the energy now expended in procuring coolly cable du cu huking nuking geidt kal and telegraphic finely interest iri jbf M that tavy may bo presented in a superb ind narra live form more topics more matter space mil not be quiren qu ired in th journal of than ih alie newspaper or to day but alie manner of handling will be ed this will in getting up incidents of tho day as skillfully and vividly as those of history have been prepared for us attractively tr in proportion to the inter terest and briefly aa a rigid exclusion of everything not directly pertinent will permit if a man possessing the ability of a stanley is sent on an expedition tion one with alie geneua of a macauley will accompany him to tell the tory picturesquely and faithfully the elements of the daily picture will bo ai according to interest in the foreground will be ho city next the country ana bo yond that the rest of the world in the city department ditl become the place journalistic graduates will ba expected to their hest howera and most thorough training instead of being left in the inexperienced hands of raw recruits speaking of alie progress of jour mr caysi we hall not have any more news the world is ransacked for it now earth aea and air carry it to u from every capital fro 11 every people from every continent arid from every island we not have newspapers new papers they are bigger now than a busy people can read we shall have belter the story better told better brains employed in tho telling briefer papers papers dealing with tho more important of current mat in such tyle sand with such a ci nation that they will command the widest interest there will bo more care and ability in selecting out of alie myriad of things you might tall tho things that the better people want to be told or to be told there will bo greater skill in putting these things b eforo them in alie convenient and attractive shape judgment in selecting the genius in telling it that is the goal for alie highest journalistic effort of tho future in making a newspaper the heaviest item of expense used to be alic white paper now it is the news by ami by let us hope it will be the eriina Lri ina mr reial further says that the fu uro paper will lc lar lisan with limitation and will exercise a wholesale indu ence in checking political con eption among the shingi that all pa peri systematic supervision of local erni nentin nil things affecting taxes and the of local debt public charities concerning the moral of the press tharo is not a newspaper today in new york faulty ai they 11 are that is not letter than its audience there is not an editor in new york who does not know the fortune that awaits the man there who is willing to make a donily piper M di reputably and vile as a hundred and thousand readers would be willing to boyi it is tha newspaper opportunity of the time the only great opportunity alia t lias come since the concentration of capital and mechanical facilities monopoly of the present field to tho existing journals several of these might take it the editor ot every one of them knows ho is making a better paper than hi constituency would like and that he might add half to his circulation by making it worse every one of them know that a less scrupulous rival may come to do what he refuses it with an ill grace eliat theoretical reformers reproach these men for lowering the newspaper standard and making journalism a instead of a blessing concerning alie rise or decline of the power of the orator slbil every litile while some discontent ed clergyman or extinct politician declai M that the power of the is waning quito recently they have given u very solemn discourses about it newspapers anre more read aliey admit but less heeded with tho air of discoverers they tell u of the great things done by the journals of tho past generation and triumphantly reclaim but who minds now what a newspaper bays there were giants in those pygmies pigmies walk iho earth today to day in the earlier times the great newspaper tood for a great force now it only stands for ft great noise it haa become to make money ii is on n commercial basis now it actually up porta itself how can such a prem wield the old influence I with to speak with due respect but really hit urt of talk and we hear a good deal of it arm to roe the twaddle of mushy benjii nent alista fir and manlier was the tana by lord macauley an fn opening hag great i his torys icho compare the ago on which their lot ha fallen with a golden ago which exita only in their imagination may talk of do genor ocy and decay but no man who i correctly informed aa to taft past will be disposed to take a ino roa or desponding view of the pros ent it w not true that the ability of the to declining tho of lie country are better written now than they ever mere before they aro better their over ago courtesy is greater tty eraso morality in purer their average tendency higher they better hit tho of great miscellaneous corn and no they hava adoro reader A to f population thear power may bo dioro diffused but there has been noni ore phe in the history of the profession fes sion than the rapid growth of the country press and its increase in ability in resources iu self respect and in influence |