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Ta.Hfmi, p. , A,
H. C. Richmond, a member of the
staff oC the Omaha World-Herald, re
sponding to the toast, "Tho Press,"
at tho banquet of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, held at South
Omaha, -February 20, delivered the
following eloquent address:
Mr. Toastmafcter, Brother Work
men and Fellow Citizens: I am re
minded of the lad who notified his
mother that ho had just set the old
speckled hen on a setting qf six dozen
eggs, whereupon- his mother -reprimanded
him for having done so, be
cause tho old hen would not be able
to properly cover that many eggs.
"I know it," replied the lad, "but 1
wanted to see her spread herself."
I surmise that the committee which
complimented me with an invitation
to participate in this program to
night must have conceived some such
idea when it assigned me to the
toast, "The Press' a most stupendous
subject, the influence of which is more
far-reaching and powerful than any
agency in our land today.
Thomas Fitch told of a man who
declared that everyone loves -his 'na
tive land, whether ho was boin there
or not. I was hardly born in the
newspaper profession, but I adoptee it
rather early in life, and I find as time
goes on that it is in one sense like
the gambling fraternity so fascinat
ing that one who adopts it is seldom
apt to reform.
In the realms of modern .science,
commerce and industry, the press has
outstripped everything. In no great
field has progress and advancement
hold sway like that of newspaperdom.
Both by reason of invention and en
terprise, the press has become a domi
nant factor, and its wondrous power
has come to challenge the admiration
of the civilized world. To enumerate
its most brilliant achievements would
require a week. The world of jour
nalism is now foremost in modern
civilization. There are more than
50,000 newspapers in the world, of
which upwards of 22,000 thrive in the
United States. Fully 600 of these are
published in our own fair state of
Nebraska.
I wish I had time to tell you of
some of the leading features of the
metropolitan newspaper its marvel
ous machinery, its ponderous and
complicated presses, its armies of
men and women, each a fragment of
that great human machine which
daily transmits from all conceivable
sources the millions of ideas and
events and occurrences which go to
make up tho great story of life. I
could spend the evening in pointing
to feats of enterprise on the part of
newspaper publishers which cast its
eclipse over the greatest endeavors of
the men of our times.
The press is a leading factor ' in
education, religion and human en
deavor. Not only does It mold public
opinion, but it reflects public senti
ment. It- is an almighty power for
good or evil. It may cause a war or
make peace. It may fire hearts with
patriotism, or breed anarchy. It may
excite public sympathy or inspire
hateful prejudice. It can whitewash
a thieving public official and make
him appear as white as Diana, seated
on an Iceberg, or it can paint with
mud a decent and a noble citizen, and
make his character look as black as
the ace of spades. It can conceal from
millions of people a deal by which
they are actually being robbed at
Washington, and it can hound and
traduce with relentless deviltry the
noblest -man who over raised his roice
in behalf of freedom and justice and
against the encroachments of organ
ized wealth.
But these are extremes. Tho press
that stands for such principles is tho
plutocratic pre3s a press as far from
the hearts of the great masses of tho
people as is heaven from earth.
Someone has said that tho beauty
of the forest does not consist wholly
in tho giant oaks which rear their
spreading branches majestically above
all other trees; that tho vast laby
rinth of verdant foliage intertwining
the smaller trees below forms an es
sential feature of tho forest's inde
scribable grandeur.
How true this is of journalism, my
friends. Here and there arethe great
and powerful journals confessedly
subsidized and controlled for politi
cal or mercenary gain. But, thank
heaven, throughout the great forest
of journalism are the smaller papers
the undergrowth, so to speak faith
fully recording and interpreting tho
hopes and fears and wants and jo.
and aspirations of tho people whose
feelings they respect. These papers
are the really great diary of man
kind. They record tho porsonal events
of interest to you and me. They
stand as a battlement between tyr
anny and the people. They are first
to embark on a crusade against wick
edness and first to defend a holy
cause. They note with pride your
progress and prosperity, and gladly
chronicle the adveut of a new member
to your household. They uphold good
government, preach morality and sus
tain tho church. They are first to
hasten the spirit of progress in your
community, and first to head a move
ment in behalf of the public good.
They speak with fulsome praise of
your daughter's marriage to a worth
less count, and nobly defend her
precious name during her long and
painful trial for divorce. They speak
kindly of you for the legislature and
defond you when your meanness and
duplicity are exposed. They narrate
carefully tho chief events of your en
tire lifo, and are tho first to offer
tender words of sympathy and solace,
when crape, that silent symbol of
death, flutters from your cottage door.
My ideal press is one whose might
is right. I would have tho press ad
here to so high a sense of justice as
to compel the respect and confidence
of the people in every walk of life;
a press as eager to right the wrongs
of the poor and humble as to flatter
the vanity and fancies and foibles of
the rich; a press blind to the political
prejudices of men not possessed of
the better qualities of mind and
heart; a press whose aim it is to en
lighten and elevate rather than to
entertain and confuse; a press com
mitted with unswerving fidelity to the
great principles of life, untrarameled,
all-powerful, going on and on adown
the ages, exemplifying the teachings
of the lowly Nazarine, for tho up
lifting of the human race.
Robbery by the Steel Trust.
A beautiful object lesson in tho tar
iff for the American people is in the
contract of a steel mill In the United
States to deliver at Montreal 40,000
tons of rails for the 'Canadian Pacific
railroad at $21.25 a ton. This, allow
ing for cost of delivery, is ?I8 a ton
at the mills or $10 a ton less than the
cost to American purchasers of etecl
rails at the mill. The contract price
to the Canadian Pacific railway left a
margin of fair profit for r'i? manu
facturers and all that is abeve this
price is an iniquitous extortion upon
American consumers which can be
practiced only under cover of a
shamefully exorbitant tariff PJiila
delphia Record.
we want you to examine and
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