1896
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topics-debates which have never yet been reported; while the old Radical Club in the same city, which was in its day as vivacious and animated, was practically killed at last by reporting.
Not that the men and women who speak at such clubs have anything to conceal, but the essential difficulty is always the same.
If you are talking for the newspapers you are sure to be misunderstood unless you write out what you mean to say, and if you do that, farewell to all freshness and spontaneity.
It is not intended in all this to throw blame upon the daily papers.
They have a stupendous task, which they perform with amazing energy and method as regards quantity of information, and perhaps in time they will add accuracy also.
Having on any given evening a score of public meetings to report, how can they do it, it may justly be asked, unless the speakers do their own reporting in advance?
Nevertheless, it is likely that sooner or later some device or new invention will lead us out of the difficulty.
Who knows but some future poly-phonograph may at some day reproduce in the daily papers of the next morning all that any public speaker said which was worth saying, or really told upon his audience, and may omit, with still greater felicity, all the rest?
New York, Harper and Brothers, 1897.
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