People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1895 — POWER OF THE PRESS. [ARTICLE]

POWER OF THE PRESS.

Pittsburg Preacher Calls It a Gibraltar of Power. Pittsboro, Jan. 22.—The Rex*. .J. TI. Craig, pastor of the Shady Avenue Christian church. Allegheny, preached yesterday on “The Power of the Daily Newspaper.” In the course of his remarks the Rev. Craig taid: “Malign it, criticise it, tear it to pieces as you may, it is a Gibraltar of power in our national domain. Foran illustration of this look for one moment at the Associated and United Press, composed' of the greatest papers of the country denlingevery day with factsand figures, culled from the four quarters of the globe on almost every living subject, from courts of justice, commercial circles, railroad circles, from the streets, boards of trade.books, commission houses, stage. Into its columns the artist, scientist, author, artisian, statesman and minister of the gospel. Such combined intelligence and knowledge would move world if properly utalized.”