. Review of reviews and world's work . rd-ing to Colonel Cockerill, guides our jom-nalisticmanagement ; nor does he see any hope of reformmore sudden or efficacious than the gradual advanceof the human race toward perfectibility. * If ninety-five per cent, of the papers were to purify themselvesover night, the indecency and criminal charm of theother five per cent, would thereby be increased a hun-dred fold in the eyes of the reading public ; and werethat reading public to remain without a correspond-ing purification, the five per cent, of the vicious 450 THE REI/IEIV OF REI^IEIVS. would inevi
. Review of reviews and world's work . rd-ing to Colonel Cockerill, guides our jom-nalisticmanagement ; nor does he see any hope of reformmore sudden or efficacious than the gradual advanceof the human race toward perfectibility. * If ninety-five per cent, of the papers were to purify themselvesover night, the indecency and criminal charm of theother five per cent, would thereby be increased a hun-dred fold in the eyes of the reading public ; and werethat reading public to remain without a correspond-ing purification, the five per cent, of the vicious 450 THE REI/IEIV OF REI^IEIVS. would inevitably secure and keep the vast bulkof the profits which had theretofore been sharedequally among the hundred. THE LAST OF THE EDITORS. The editor is a species rapidly approaching extinc-tion as far as goes any personal influence radiatingfrom the sanctum to the readers. Colonel Cockerillpoints sadly to three sarvivors of the race—HenryWatterson, A. K. McClure, and—not least—CharlesA. Dana. The editorial page has gone steadily to. JAMES W. SCOTT,Editor of the Chicago Herald. seed in the last decade or two ; it has ceased to standfor the views of any individual or to represent thedemands of any preeminent power. THE PROPRIETOR AND HIS PURSE. Colonel Cockerill paints the evils of non-residentownership of newspapers, resulting as it does in anabsolutely heartless money standard. When the suc-cess of a paper and the value of its work are guaged bythe amount of the monthly remittances to the pro-prietors European bankei-—all the rest follows. The managing editor must get money to his pro-prietor if he wishes to retain his position and reputa-tion. To get money he must sell the paper ; to sellthe paper he is dependent on a providence which will send him a fruitful day of crimes, tragedies andscandals. Does it seem possible that there can beintelligent, self-respecting, educated men who are con-stantly on the qui vive for the misery of their fellows,and who profit directly and
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