THE PRESS.

Inangahua Times, Volume IV, Issue 37, 4 July 1877, Page 2

THE PRESS.

[TO, Tflß EniTOR IIUN(UH;iJtA TJMEs.] Sjtt,—ls it to b.o wandered at that the Press does nQt receive appreciation outside, when we find that so many persanal and. uu worthy private animosities operate, where large and broad views for the benefit of the community should aloun characterise the writings of aur journalists P I da not for a moment say that you or any other public writer should calmly submit to animadversion, not to say vituperative objurgatiou, if the line of action adapted justifies stern and even uncompromising criticism. But why in Pity's, sake the vendetta which in this day characterises rival nasvspapers. Surely—, sorely the field is wide aud the scope ample enough for every snade of opinion, and every decent form of advooucy, whatever the subject, and no matter what the object. As an old Bress writer, I should be glad, indeed, if the circumstances of the day would, warrant the hope that some will-maker in Keefton could conscientiously do as a recently deceased and very eminent lawyer of New York did. The will of Mr WiHiam Jay Rasjett, who recently died in New York City contained this quaint but very ap« preciatory clause : " I am informed that there is a society composed of young men connected with the public Press, and as in early life I was connected with the papers, I have a keen recollection of the toils and troubles that then and. ever will hubble for the toilers of the world in their patage cauldron, a.n.4 as I desire to thicken with a. little savoury herb their thin broth in the shape of a legacy, I do hereby bequeath to. the New York Press Club, of the City of New York, 100Q dollars, payable on the death of Mrs Caroline Haskett." The moral I would draw from this is twofold—Pressmen, start a <' Press Club." in which the high mission of the Press will be inculcated: capital-, ists, use your influence, while living, to encourage a proper tone in the journals, of your day; and in your wills t remember any such institution as that which Mr Haskett has remembered, and in so doing has honored himself,—l am, &c, ,Diok, Reefton, July 2nd, \BIT.