The place of journalism in literature having been thus justified, the speaker proceeded to consider how the newspaper or periodical should be approached by readers. The first thing one looks for in the daily paper, he observed, is news, information, the elementary facts that constitute the premises upon which our judgement of men and things is based. The news must not be taken as it stands. The man who formed the habit of reading the whole newspaper through wae worse than a glutton. It was necessary to select, and read with a critical attitude. One should have a dictionary and an at hand, and an encyclopaedia within easy reach. It was a common mistake to subscribe only to "the paper that thinks as we think." The mental and moral effects were disastrous.
If s Radical habitually read a Radical paper he became gradually incapable of political discernment, and the Tory who read only Tory papers was worse still, for he became irretrievably confirmed in extremely improper _principlés—so at least a Radical would tell him. Read the other Party's daily paper, but read your own Party's weekly, and deliberately adopt a combative attitude, by about 200,000, and in Ohio, ways a keenly contested battltground, the Republicans likewise gained signal victory.
On the other hand, the Democrats certainly have substantial grounds for satisfaction in the fact that their majority in the Senate was increased from 10 to 16, and in the further fact, strange as it may sound, that they were not completely overwhelmed. The latter seems & poor sort of satisfaction until the fact is brought out that in over forty years there has been only one election in an off year—a year when there is no president to be clected—when the newly clested House of Representatives has not been adverse to the party in power, and but one since the Civil War when & revision of the tariff, either upward or downward, has not been followed by a defeat of the administration, mainly through the influence of the powerful intereste adversely affected by the changes made. Indeed, the recent Republican successes. are being hailed in protectionist circles as protectionist victories, and the triumphant return of Senator Pen-rose, ex-Speaker Cannon and other prominent members of the Repub-Tian old guard is pointed to as proof of a revival of protectionist sentiment.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.