UNIVERSAL PEACE.
JOURNALISM AND INTER- NATIONAL AFFAIRS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAYO TULY 8 J9YT
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Of the liko obligation in edi WHY LONDON IS THE quartors of the globe. For the sive than responsible governmont groat mass of newspapors the task It is with the sentiment which torial comment little need be said. CENTRE, of nows-collooting, so far as con- when aroused, controls at aud His must be a dull mind indeed corns foreign lands, or their own crison that journalism has to do, to whom it is not plain. Every THE MAGIC LODESTONE IN land beyond the neighbourhood and from this fact its reponsibility consideration that apponle to B It is a truist in all lands where of enoh, has been abolished. The arises. The most serious sitanuman in privato. "life" to mako the press is reasonably free, that question of how to get the news tions are presented notin domestic im just and temporate and the responsibility of journalism has been replaced by the question but in international matters, be courteous and sane appeala for
THE CITY.
LADIES COLUMN.
of most interesting conimoroin! machinery. Every country inthe A FRENCHWOMAN S SUMMER world has some of it, but only in London can tlio whole bo soon.
WARDROBE.
We have adapted the check and The general impression of n A magnfucturing company in the olearing house so successfully Frenchwoman's wardrobe is one that New York now cleara about of extremo deintinosa, för overy-
in international affairs is weighty.of what choico to make from the caues in ilomestic nattors readers more strongly to the writer New York City began selling odd one hundred dollars. for every thing; from her stockings to her have more, and more trustworthyon international affairs, since lots of goods to South Aindrien seventy dollars eloarod in London Jaco Jahota, in kept in exquisite But it is in the nature of a truisin vast heap daily at hand.
For most journalists, then, in information as toon and urea-his influence is far wider and the somo years ago. At first, salos but London's export machinery is to be trite aid of tritanoss to be! vague and of vagueness to be the chief countries, the respousi-sures; do not so easily deceive effect of it may be far more im were made by correspondence or still strange mechanism to us order. There are piles of snowy
But are so readily portant und enduring.. inisleading. Let us examine the bility in international affair hard-themselves, nor
apted during the coming gonera-od and threaded with pretty rib mattor a little closely.
ly relates to fullness or accuracy misled. Moreover in international while the duty is clear, the disby direct appeal to the South something to be studied and ud-linon, hand sown and embroider- The tuntlers the minds of the mass of charge of it is not always ousy. Amorienn dousin who passedtion when we go abroad for foreign bons, thoro oro at least thires eor In the first placo, journalism, of the news they collect. like every modern institution, is nows they got is about as full and men aro excited by strong To be just and sane the journalist through New York on his way to customers. Much of London's very complex, differing in differ-accurate as can be had. No pri- tendency towards porsonification must be well-informed, sud Europa, By-and-by the trade machinery, indoed, is strange to sots of different thickness, ilhares or ent lands, in different parts of the vate effort, save by papers of That is to say, they conceive of a sufficient knowledge for reason was important enough fourrunt Londoners themselves. Men there, four dainty dressing gowns and same land, and at different periods great capital, and a highly or-foreign nation as an individual, able conclusions can be had on South American department, bound by their own field of routine, natiuces, dozens of handkerchiefs of its own evolution. Gront ganized staff, under expert and with individual virtues and vices, by constant study, and observin and the manager made a long tour sil in the omnibas with other men embroidered with her monogram, Britain and Japan aro allies. The daring direction, can seriously particularly vices. statosion of onch ustion ro-omond the work of the news wisest yield unduly to this, peril for a writer in too exclusive of South America, which made it whose routine would be altogether plenty of silk stockings in tho
and Londoner in business is likely be carrying on some interesting even romantic-trade, such as shipping, with a statistical and hundroni orderliness that is part
Even the tion. Moreover, is a certain
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and right-minded men who ad- mind and to shape his conductiret, the public mind.
journalist who dwells habitually to learn the ways of the country marsh, So food hand to be brought cularly habille feathered, hat for
up
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and, little slices to matelt, and That South American depart
several pairs of "mules." But of in common with the other, and What romains for most is the bosolting habit of speaking of jocts. He is exposed to loss of and profitable. they have bound the two, for a choice of now accossible, the form Germany, France, Great Britain, perspective and is liable to over- fixed toru, to pursue these jointly, of its prosentation and the com-America, as "aho," as a being look facts, often fauts near at mout never came into its own.
drosses and hats there is no pro couple of linen tailor-mades, a fusion, only just what is needed. oven by armed force. France and mont on it. What responsibility who can hate and love, plot and hand, which it is not sale to however, until it was
For fight, can give or take gratitude, ignore. Unfortunately the risk bodily over to London-and the of the system too, if not its very
Lussore costumo, a blue cloth or Russia aro in like enso. In curry-attaéhes to this function?
sergo coat and skirt, with certain- London hus boon a trading, ing out the purposes of these the great papors, for those that resentment and all the intricate likely to be the greatest with manager with it. alliancos, or in hindering thom, can afford to maintain their category of attributes or foolings writers devoted to noble and
gorio chemisettos; a dainty the journalism of the several oditors-resident, so to call them, that load to friendship or quarrel beautiful theories of international up in New England and such
The peace. The task of the journalist lifferont views about carrying on trans-shipping, brokingand clearly not more than half a dozen lin- countries may have a considerable at the course of affairs, who know in personal intercourse.
In the very beginning two skirt, and perhaps one other influence. The mattor has but to and sometimes share the un- tendency is simplified and bois to get at the truth, and, as near the novelty manufacturing busi-inz proposition from the year one: foulard, be mentioned to suggest the dercurrents of sentiment and comes more intense in the minds as may be, the whole truth, and heas left by their father that one marked variation in the agencies interest that influence political of the mass in any, nation. It is that is a task, sometimes sadly of them eventually sold out to the hillocks of solid ground stuck that taust thus be called in play action, there is clearly a responsi- very tenacious, it is wayward interfered with by theuries too other and took lua capital over to up out of dors comes tide and throo evening dresse and in the way that they will bility that the least sensitive and incalculable in its maui-comprehensive, too absolute and London to start fresh in his own marshes. Traders took them for
is sometimes to confidingly hold. A fool's way. He thought John Bull need marketplace. Cities usually well as one in cloth, and a couple work. We need not, however, go might well feel. What is that festations, and
jour-paradise" is a dangerous abode ed his sort of goods and believed feed themselves from farms and of evening cloaks, one claborate, of poril. Tho
ouo plain; two morning hats, two so far afield for evidence that which rests ou the multitude of full
The He was right. By taking pains London's outskirts were mud and afternoon hots, and one parti journalism differs under different active, koen, generally intelligoni nalist ought clourly to keep it in from whieh to direct or to try to there was a big field in London, gardens skies, even when the language is
vory smort occasions, with voils the same. That of the United munister probably nine-tenths of with reference to it,
in it, who shuts his vision from as well as the language, which down the river and the market States is very unlike that of Eng- the sixty-thousand newspapers of The chief rosamsibility of at
from the son. all there dresses and costumos land, and we see appreciable dis- the modern world? It is not journalist, then, in international the complex interests, passions, was different too--he got along dealt with foreign merchants who and a motor bonnet. Perhaps in
tendencies of the people of whom famously. Within a year he was
To the reader of English history, only four will be quite new, for similarity in the journalism of onsy clearly to define it, but it is fairs is for the influence he may is readers are a part, which making goods in his own factory, the East, the West and the South unmistakablo and it is consider-exert on the feelings of his determina for the time being the outside of London, and had sel- kings and quens, peers and the Frenchwoman has her things of the United States, and in thejable.
readers and so on, the general
tical London is really the merest seasons, either by hor maid or hor journalism of to-day in ouch of Primorily it relates to their in-sentiment on which so much rate of progress toward the spreading agencies in all the important Parliament loom larga; but poli-one up for at least two er hings
of pence, not only exposes himself contres of the United Kingdom.
But his trade took a wholly upstart beside commercial Lon-sowing woman. Her hate, too, those regions compared with that fluence on what is known as depends. This iniluence is exort- to bitter disappointment, but does of oren two dounes since. The public opinion, but what is in ed, first, by the choice he makes
to sell goods to the British at home was established and has always gowns and dressing-gowne aro institution, if we may so call it, reality chielly public sontimont, from the mass of nows accessible to those who listen to him a dis- unforeseen trend. He had come don. It came long after trade, are often arranged, and her to is as ondoyant ot divers as the to international affairs thore to him. That choice is not really inet disservice.
As has already been jutinuated, and succeedod. At the same time, been kept outside commercial always made at home. It is no He must in practice personality of Michol do Mon-hardly exists in the public mind vory wide
If the Amorican tourist hap-average Frenchwoman is a most drawn into an axport trade extend- anything that fairly or accurately take that most interesting to his the question of the responsibility however, be found himself being London proper, in Westminster, exaggeration to say that the
of journalism in' international You the complex thing wo callan be called opinion. A very readers. It is an elusive despot afluirs is quito as important for ing over the whole globe. Buck pens to walk along Fleet Street economical creature, because she Journalism British¦ ̧ Gorman, mall part of any community, of ism that dictates this, but it is French, American, what not even the best-taught and, in or disputable. There is, how the smaller papers, including the in Now England they had on a fortunate day he may witlus such a keen sense of order exists. The image the name calls dinary matters, the intelligent, ver, wide discretion as to form. weeklies, as for the larger, and in casionally received an order from aess tho time-honoured ceremony and for getting full value for er up in our minds has a basis in can, and a still smaller number the same news can be prosented the United States it is even more and foreign country. It always of the lord mayor mooting the money. The extravagant non- fact. Journalisan has generally do, "think" on foreign affairs, in a manner to excite or to pro-important. These papers have in through a roundabout king at the old site of Temple are those who have come into a very large total circulation, channel. The foreigner's letter, Bar and escorting His Majesty thoir riches by accident and too two functions in which ovory One of the wittiest and wisest of rent oxcitement. The sonsible They are usually read more deli-oredentials, shipping instructions from the comparatively now suddenly, or may be here and and the restof it were so outlandish political London into that very there one finds a disorderly spirit journal, in different fashion or journalists, Walter Bagehot, was ind practical rule is always, so degree, shares-to furnish in-woot to say that if you wished to far as possible, to give peace the berately, with closer, attention, usually that when the goods were old commercial London which is which spends money as it dood and cuter more intimately into the tho doubt, of foration and to comment there test the value of public opinion, benolit
energy and words, but these are The city might be compared the exceptioca. As it is in the exercise of ask your butler what ho thinks of to addross roaders as to keep minds and the lives of their boxed they took a photograph of known as "the city."
renders. Their interpretation of thom, with the address showing Of them cool, 'and: fair, and Crrent events may not carry more these functions that they find a proportional representation.
prominently and the members of to the Wall Street district in Another Now Sunshadę, 20
The powest sunshuda I have ̈ common part in the affairs of the course, generally he does not and rational. community, so it is for the way cannot think about it
commercialeen is made with the oretonne ono at the text of the news as furnished weight, but they make a more firm, the shipping clerk and the New York. It contains the banks, they exercise them that they have all. Foreign affairs are of by the press associations, this continue and probably a more railway truckman grouped in the oxchanges
effective impression. On, the background. Later the picture machinery of the British metro buys farmaking bedroom curtains their common responsibility, Innocossity not understood of rule is generally followed. Thoro
appeared in trade journals as polis. The orginal settlement of or for covering obairs; it is quite " general terms it is easy enough the people because there is not is not inuch temptation for the whole, the contents of these papers evidence that the United States traders was inade upon its sito, | attractive, and a very good wear to state that responsibility. It room in their minds and lives for gents of the associations to fauction. They are loss ophe- thoroughly understande export and for long it was a walled towa ing material. Who knows p requires that information shall be the unfamiliar and often difficult lopart from it. They are not
trade; but in London, at the end To-day though but a square mile perhaps the economical French full and accurate, al that com-facts from which an understanding likely to be gonded by any feel- ment shall be fair, caporate, and can alone be secured. It was ing of rivalry to make their dis was these journals that Dr. of his first year, there was never a in area, it is a country to itself, woman would even go so for us to Nicholas Murray Butler, Presi-day but he made shipments to retains its own government of use old cluir covers for the very countries and colonies seldom merchants sad line its anciont purpose. They practise strange
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Advantages of Accuracy.
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as wise as the journalist shall be reported in Fobrnary of this year patches more impressive, attrac
But this is word. Eli Root rotired live in a word, sensational. Their dont of Columbia University, heard of back home--fully a third charters and privileges, granted economics sometimes, for I heard almost as indefinite us to say that from the State Department at interest, as well as their instruc-largely had in mind when he said of his stuff went into export clian- by a long succossion of kings in of a very indignant little dress- mmaker, the other day, who was journalists should be gentlemen Washington, that he had nogo- tions and their duty, can best be in one of his addresses before the
If an American house sells a lot If Wall Street were a self objecting to the airs and graces of by nature and breeding, besides tiated twenty-four treaties pro- obeyed by clear and uncolorade University of Copenhagen, in boing thoroughly trained in aviding specifically or generally presentation of the facts they 105 Aut the nerican inits of canned goods to Timbuctoo the governing district to itself, and J. in old gliente who had become When their average state, the American news money is inorally certain to come Pierpont Morgan were its mayor suddenly very ripb, "and aho, difficult and intricate profession, for the arbitration of international have obtained, Look a little nearer at the func differences arising between the ports reach the newspaper offices, and with a due sense of respon- from the Malay States pavinent is the Stock Exchange, and rode in umbrella coverings to use us lin- paper is conducted with sobriety through London. If it bugs tin and lived in a mansion opposite who used to bring me her old tions to which the journalist is United States and other nations. however, a different set of con.
Unquestionably that was a sub-litions is sometimes encountered.sibility as an institution powerful First as to furnishing infornia-stantial service to his country and The temptation to depart from for good or evil in a demoratio made through London. When a gilder conch, and received the ings, for her couts!" said the
Among the larger any country in the world enjoys President of the United States at couturiere!
good times it sends to London to the sub-treasury whenever our As Charming Fans. tion. Not many years ago this to mankind, rendered by years of the rule, to manke the news strik- unity." was the field in which energy, patient, enlightened and tactful ing, to give to it a form that was of editorial discussion, this judges are bad it calls loudly on sary to enter Broad Street, we fans very much to the fore, and papers also especially in the matter
finance its enterprises. When national executive found it néces The hot weather luas brought capital, ambition, talent wore effort. How many of the people catch the eye and stir this fooling ment is deserved, the exceptions Lution to help it out. Products should have pretty nearly a whorever one goes it is necessary anost concentrated, and in this of the United States, how many of of readers to whom the same Hold the competition was so the members of the Logislature of news may be presented by other being more conspicuous tum of form, range nul mine are no counterpart of that city of London to have one. I remember that strenuous and costly that only the State of New York, who have and rival papers, straightway is numerous or influential. the wealthier and stronger jour-just voted for Mr. Itoot as United felt. Its mischievous effect shows doubtedly the press in America, sooner ready for market than they which many tourists never dis-mon used them the last hot sum nuls ontered it. While there is States Senator, could mention one chiefly in the head-line," and as elsewhere, is short of the begin moving toward Isandon as tinguish from London proper with mor we had, but that is so lone Those of us who, magnet there under the soft-coal area. The king himself cannot more Britishly self-conscious since still ample room for ingonious in ten of these treaties or could in these really almost more than best in this regard, but it is ad- thought there were some enormous its seven hundred square miles of "go, they have had time to grow and vigorous competition, among define the general principles by a editorial comment is onbodied vancing. abose who care to take part in which the American Government the influence of the paper. In ardently attached to the cause of vapours there is. Investigate enter the city officially without then. The most attractive are in it, the more important, at any has been guided in making thom? this form it is very great. The just peace, find the ancient say any fundamental device ofmodern permission from the lord mayor lace with boautiful ivory or tor be found with its roots in London. authority extends only over the sive ones are in carro, in paper, rate the more salient, facts in the But if opinion, drawn from ade- prayer of the modern, longing to ing: Time respects only that come with it will invariably of London; but the lord mayor's zoiseshell mounts; but less expens daily life of mankind are now quate study of authenticated facts, sway the hearts of a people.
Worldwide Commerce From
square mile, of the city. He is and this week. I saw one in lea accessible practically to the grout is too difficult and tedious of might well bo: "Let who will
always a business man erected by ther, such a delightful thing, and body the nowspapers in English-acquirement, there is no lack of make their laws if I may write
Brokerage insurance, shipping, the old merchants' guilds to serve solid. I picked it out from sponking landa, and in lesa de soutipont regarding international their head-lines." These are the
the post-office and the railway, a single year in his quaint mong some beautiful hand-sewn greo, but with pretty liberal affaire. It is in relation to this one foature of a puper sure to
Accurney is an important the modern corporation, with its splendour.
bags made by Mrs. George, an From the oarliest times the Englishwoman who lives in Paris, fulness, to newspapers in other sentiment, to its creation, guid receive the attention of all. Day quality, which should be acquired stocks and bonds, and the stock Inads. This has been brought ance, restraint or stimulation, that by day, continually and continuin the schoolroom. There are exchange that handles them-alloity has been as democratic as and whose work is only known to about by the organization of nows the responsibility of journalists ously, they express its purpose people who declare that accuracy run directly to London. Most of business itself. Knights have art decorators and to a few re- collecting associations-Routor in arises.
and work its will. By them, day has no place in the vocabulary of them can be traced back beyond long, been abundant among its markably well-dressed women in England, Havas in France, Wolff "Responsible" government is after day, the minds of thousands, the imaginative and gifted person, the dawn of history in their citizens, but peers have been Paris who always ask her to make in Germany, the Associated Press, relatively modern phrase, do- of hundreds of thousands it may that it is dull virtue suitable only rudimentary forms; but it was rather the oxception. Liko the thom a hag when they have a the United Press, Laftan's in the scribing, not too nicely, a modern be, are reached and wrought for the clerk in the counting- London that made them practical, rest of England, the oily dearly particularly smart tailor-made... United States which are expect thing. In practice it is govern- upon. A certain proportion of a house. Nothing is more orroneous working institutions. That fami- lovos a lord, but its chief use for The Wearing of Jewellery ed to cover, and in fact generally ment of a nation by agents who papor's patrons read its die us than such an idea. The person liar, unregarded and wonderful one is to put him at the head of a Except for ringe, less jewellery do cover, the nows of all parts of can, more or less clumsily, be sion of current events; a larger who is not accurate is mentally slip of coloured peper, the bank board of directors. Again and is worn in France than in Eng the world. These associations changed if their conduct do not proportion may read the text of slipshuil. Moreover, he is unable check, for example, had its coun: again the lord mayor has been a land. They rarely wear bracelets, have their agents, usually fairly satisfy the majority of that portion its news columns substantially to carry away a correct impros terpart in billsof exchange among business man who made his way except in the house; they never trained, sometimes men of ex-of the people who have a voice in all read its head-lines, The im- sion of anything. All through the anolent Greeks, but it remain up from nothing; and uo incident put on more than one chain at a ceptional character and equip-their selection, The change is press conveyed is immediate, his life le seos things not as they ed for London to develop checks in English history is dearer te time, but they do carry a heap of anent, not only in all the capitals, not necessarily the result of delilear, and, in the long run, are, but as they are not. In bus into the clearing-house system, the London lieart than the story things on it: pue, powder-box, but in all the chief cities and in boration and it may not be due to offective and lasting. In thisness or professional life the valus Every nation that has coms into of Dick Whittington, the poor ladanierar, pencil, inblets, and all the newspaper offices of the minor the electors opinion of the general direction, therefore, lies the first of accuracy cannot be over- competition with London in the who heard Bow-holls calling him sorts of title breloques. A slenderi centres, so that it is practically conduct of the agents, or of thoir and most imperative demand on estimated. In fact, there are few past century has copied and adapt to turn back and be thrice lord chain and a beautiful pendant is i impossible that any event of ob-conduct as to matters of serious the sense of responsibility of situations in life in which this ed her commerpial machinery; mayor
good style for afternoon wear, but vious interest shall pass undis for insting interest. It may be the journalist. Here first and quality is not highly to be desiderand wherever a nation reveals There is a most significant gap not for morning; a jewelled watch covered and unreported. The due to a transient outburst of more largely than anywhere else, atod. Fortunato is the person shortcomings as does Franco, in London's history that shows may pass any time, and earrings. result in that on thousands of passion, and may be reversed in his conscience will recognize the who lins been trained from child with its lack of checking, how vitally ita existence has over unless it be a pearl or a diamond oditore, doake in every quarter of another ontbirst in the opposite opportunity and the obligation to hood in habite of accuracy, and, facilities the defect can com- been linked with business. About solitaire, are not at all generale the globe each day there are laid, direction, Buch things uppen give peace the henefit of every adds the Gentlewoman," parents monly be laid to the fact that 500 A. D. its commerce was cut althoughin few women have taken ready for printing if desired, re- so often that it would not be far doubt and to keep his readers, as should endeavour to instal, this London has not been copied faith off by wars. Tuoad by starva a mad desire to wear the longs parte of the news of the proceeding nufas to call the modern system for as may be, cool and fair and virtue in the gutsary and later in fully enough... mation, the pity was deserted and droppy kind that, some twonty-four hours in all other in many instances rather respone rational,
Thane, things
(To be Gratiaved next Saturday)! vromen affect