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FOi^jSKßlllLliTYojrTinlE PIRESS I - ■ ■ - ■ ■ \ - ■ ■ i There would be no greater force existing in the world as an aid to civilization and human fraternity SUNDAY MAGAZINE far OCTOBER 2. 1904 Ey Ma,it ii ® Coipelli than the press, if its vast powers were employed to thi n< ■■ ■;• st purp< >ses It ought t<> resemble a mighty ship wtnen. witft brave, true men a: the helm, moves ever 0:1 .i straight courso, cleaving * : 1 « • waters of dark ness and error and making directly for the highest shores ot peace and promise, I'.v.t it must be .1 shi] indeed, grandly built, nobly manned and stea*lilj steered, not a crazy, water-logged ■ el creal with the thud of every wave, and bobl ing I a k'.v.trd h-mI forward uncertainly in a gale. Its pi itioi atii I-. sent Jay : . .;• ..; | . : ; r- to I c rather the latter than • " • •■ inner. Unquestionably the people, taken in rhe mass. <i>> not d. 1•- ■': •:• on it. They read the newspa] ers— tmf< r tunateJy. they oiu-n read the worst ki:.<l of nnvs j aj ers — but they almosi imm< diatt h fi rg< I •■• ■ rythii r in them except the head-lines and one or two unpleas ant police cases. And why do they forget? Simply because first of all they are not sir.: ciently interested. and secondly. Iwcause they do not believe the news tiu-y read. A workman told me the other day that he ]...'] been saving sixpence a week on two halfpenny I .i- ers which he had been accustomed to take in for the past year. "'I found 'em out in ten '.i<-s, all on top of one another in two weeks," he candidly explained, ''and co I thought I might as ivell keep my money for something more useful. So I started putting the halfpence by for my little kiddie, .I!'..'. I'm going :•< st :< kto it. There's five shillings in the savings bank already! " ■ ■ - . ... ■ .:■■ ■ ■ ■ : ■ ■ »ere a ■ ■■■ Mon . : . IK'S Ol ■■ the • . ondly, " ; in the manm rs and -[•).,. last i: by important ■ ■ ■ ■ •.. ■ . ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ , ■ ■ the 1 ■ .. - ■ The " irresponsibility " hen- complained of comes out perhaps more often and most glaringly in those papers which profess to chronicle the sayings and doings of Kings and Queens, Prime Ministers a id personages more or less well-known in the world of art, letters arid society In nine cases out of ten. the journalist who reports the^e sayings and doings has never set eyes on the people about whom he writes with such a tree and easy flippancy. Even if he has, his authority to make their conversation public may be questioned. It is surely not too much to ask of tin- editors of news papers that they should by applying directly to the : i