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PUBLIC MORALS.
Editor’s Responsibility—Not Only
Editor in Is, but Pictures end Ads.,
Should Be Scrutinized.
By J. W. WHITE Editor end Proprietor
of the Florida Fraternal Record, Jack*
•onville.
[From an address delivered before the
k Florida Pi ess ahsociation at Ocala,
May -’y.)
To those of us—and we are still a
nifthty army—-whobelieve in the Jar
ger thought of God and the powerful
iurcet of his uni verse, who seek the
freer step, the fuller breath, the
greater faith and the stronger hope,
there is a desire to • promote and to
secure purity, higher, nobler, health
ier living, public spirit, true piety,
honest business methods and pa
triotism m the hearts of men. Our
readers are entitled to the thought
that will make them better and hap
pier as well as more intelligent.
] I Hr lie ve in the fatherhood of God,
the brotherhood of man, the salvation
of the race by character and the prog
ress of mankind upward and onward
forever, and 1 preach it.
1 know that the editor of today whoj
se^kstolead men in the right di-1
reeiion must deal with facts. He must
be. practical and in earnest. He mutt
keep in touch with the world. His
heart as well as his head must be
right and his spirit in tone with the
infinite. The editor who realizes his
responsibility in the matter of public
morals will exercise the greatest care
in the selection of every picture, ad
vertisement or editorial that finds
place in his publication.
/ What a poor world this woujd be
withont pictures! I refer'to your mfehi-
ory and mine when I ask if your
knowledge of ihe Holy Scriptures has
not been enlarged by the woodcuts
or engiavings in the old family Bible
out of which father and mother read
and laid on the table in the old home
stead when you were boys and girls.
The Bible scenes which we all carry
in our minds were not got by reau
mg the Bible, bnt from the Bible pic
tures. What is true of the Bible pic
tures is true ol the pictures in that
old spelling book of my boyhood, and
what is true of the lasting impres
sions made by the pictures in these
two books is true in a large measure
of the newsjiaper cut* of tne present
day First paiuters pencil for the
favored few, tken engravers plate for
the thousands, and now the beautiful
half tone cuts for the millions. Let
no book or paper in America contain
a single pictnre that will deprave.
Have nothing that will familiarize
the young with scenes of crueity or
intemperance. Have those pictures j
that eievate and refine and none of 1
those scenes that seem the product |
of artistic delirium tremens or ihe
poorlv paid advertisements of some
cheap whisky house. One engraving
may decide an eternal destiny."
I did not select thissubj et of “Kdi
tonal Responsibility lu tne Matter of
Public Moral,” and so 1 am going to
tell you right here tonight, in a spirit
of truth, what I honestly conceive to
be one of the greatest evils of the
age, and in this connection let me
implore my brother Mlitors to give
me credit for honesty of purpose
rather th*n criticism for criticism’s
sake.
The oresent day immorality is
largely due to the spread of intemper
ance. The dealer in rum is hard
pressed by all classes of society. I he
church of the living God has loug
ago excluded him. Our great fra
ternal societies have barred their
doors aguinsi him. He is crowded out
ot business and society circles arid
left to roam as an outcast, the better
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Bottling Works and Ice Cream Parlor. All soft
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element everywhere disowning him,
and still 6ur ij*nv t papers ^ture filled
with advertisements of his liquid
damnation. The saloon is a relic of
^barbarism, and but for the greed that
many have for money it would l»e
sent back to the pit from whence it
came
If a thief or burglar enters my
home by night and steals my property
and if I should call for help, the city
marshal and the jK>lice force would
be at my command. My neighbors
would rally to assist in bringing that
theif to insiice. This is right A
saloon may be opened in my town,
enter the sacred precincts of the home
take its brightest and best son a id
daughter, make them drunkards or a
drunkard’s wife. The police power
of the state is asked to protect that
home, but they say the * saloon must
run to get revenue to pave our streets
and to light our cities. In order that
the saloon may run somebody’s boy
must become a drunkard and some
body’s daughter must become a
drunkards wife. Will not the peop’e
of Florida, aided by the press, pat
upon the statute'books some law by
whi^'i a man's family may be protect
ed from the ravages of the taloon,
equally strong with that which says
that we shall have protection from
thieves and burglars?
.1 am not lik* my good friend, Past
President McBeath, who so eloquent
ly portrayed the evils of the times and
told in a tone of despair of the in-1
crease of crime in a very able paper
rsad at our last annual session.
1 believe that we are living under
very bright skies. „Of all the centu
ries this is the best century, and of all
the years of the century this is the
best year. Although 1 may sjieak ol
griefs and wrongs, it is with a full be
lief that there is a jiower in the news
papers of America that can cure any
thing and everything. The world is
very much what we make it. 'i he
most of the things of this life may be
set to music, but the editor sometimes
gets the wrong tune and sings “Wind
ham” when he ought to set things to
the glorious music of “Coronation.”
Happy is ihe man that even under
leaden skies looks for the blossoming
bouquet; helping and inspiring the
editor who fills his editorial columns
with the thought that in a world
where there §re v so much beauty and
order we should no»; complain, but j
rees on to higher uud better things, j
x>th m iterial ami spiritual. i
We must not be too harsh iu our 1
criticism of others. With live hundred |
faults of our own we ought to let the !
other fellow have at least one I am !
afraid that the imperfections of other
ieople will kill one or two of our good
’dorida editors >et. How much better,
like the sun, to distribute light and
cheer wherever we look. How much
more helpful to teach love for human
ity, faith in the power, wisdom and
goodness ot the all wise Father,hope for
a life immortal and a belief in unseen
forces which must ire cultivates and
strengthened if man would come into
possession of the rral life.
As editors we must let our lights
shine “that others may see our good
works and glorify onr Father which
is in heaven.”
Let us note iu our editorials the
encouraging fact that the world is
growing better.* Why, less than
eighty years ago the governor of New
York state had to disband the legis
lature because of its utter corruption!
Think of Aaron Burr, vice president
of the United States; think of leaders
like Dean Swift and Sterne; think of
the corn huskings and the dances
when everybody got drank and never
went home until morning!
Then I want you to note the fact
that the world is coming under the
domination ot the intelligent radts;
that men have a greater love for
liberty, law and progress.
Among the encouraging signs of our
time are the unparalleled develop
menta*of the earth material resources.
Year by year the world’s harvests in
crease, the cornfields are more golden
and the granaries more crowded.
Wherever we go we see the progress
of civil and religious liberty. We be
hold the printing presses without
censorship, and the Bible/ God’s lest
gift td'nwtti, without Arbitrary inter
pretation by some good old orthodox
brother who believes in a God of
moods, who is mad one day and
pleased the next, and a hell that is
several degrees too hot to be comfor
table. And we must not forget m
this feast of good things the great
institutions of learning, the powerful
churches, the great fratenial and
charitable organisations and the
millions of lo^d men with the qmck
brain, the brawny arm and the hope
ful heart who are ever striving for the
best
In dosing permit me to My that,
in my judgment, the great demand of
today is for the strong; vigorous, posi
tive editor who has opinions and a
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will, the editor who has the courage
to lead and the grit to stand by his
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This age of commercialism, with
its tremendous pressure upon every
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onr great financial centers, this hour
of brilliant achievements that lure
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If we keep Lowell’s beautiful
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Whereon each one of ue may write
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