E. G. Jones

Name: The Pacific Monthly
Author: E. G. Jones

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“The Pacific Monthly”, published in 1898, is a work by E. G. Jones. It explores elements such as Oregonian, paper and Portland.

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ A man must have some strength of individuality to succeed, and a paper must have character to be respected. The moral force a paper may exert in any community is found in the character and ability of its editorials. The great editors of the country in the past have been few. Knowledge alone does not make an editorial writer. A man may be a walking cyclopaedia of information, and yet be as dry and as musty in his makeup as are the volumes he has pored over, and as lacking in inspiration for real accomplishment in newspaper work as the average graduate of a journalistic college. ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ Nearly every prominent paper in the United States that was once prominent as a tribute to its editorial strength has fallen behind in the race for first place among big and successful newspapers. Judged by the old standards, every prominent newspaper published today is a compromise with the ideals of its editor. The man of great parts as an editorial writer has but little tolerance for the unrealities of things generally, for the attractive side-lights of life that appeal so strongly to the lesser man. ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ The Oregonian, based on its merits as a newspaper alone, would command attention in San Francisco, in Chicago, in Philadelphia, in Boston, even in New York. No future history of Portland, no history of Oregon, no history even of the Pacific Coast will ever be complete unless it contains more than passing notice of the Oregonian and the work its management has done during forty years or more towards shaping the destinies of a field that some day will be one of the most prosperous and one of the most densely populated parts of the United States. ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ It is a matter of pardonable pride to the people of Portland that it has not been found necessary to recognize the sensational to insure the Oregonian that rapid increase of circulation in the field it now so fully covers, which has followed the efforts of the management to publish a paper of standing and ability; a paper that is a credit alike to the men who have made the Oregonian what it is, and to the city in which the Oregonian has grown and prospered.
The weakness of any business venture is likely to be found in ideals or fixed methods that appeal the strongest to its management ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ The wise publisher knows, however, that a paper which first attains a prominence which is the direct result of strength and clearness of editorial utterance, can not hope to maintain its position on the prestige of its editorial ability alone. During average times the readers of any paper ask for something more than opinions. It may be stated, even, that strength of editorial utterance can not safely overshadow the merits of a news service which a paper is able to offer. ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ Most papers that twenty years ago were recognized for the force of their editorial utterances are today back numbers. The Oregonian enjoys the distinction of being not only a paper of great editorial strength, but a complete newspaper of recognized merit. It has been the attempt of the Oregonian's management to keep the news features of the Oregonian in advance even of the strength of its editorial utterances, that has made the paper as great as it is today. ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ The combination of knowledge, strength of individuality, character and magnetic force that will permit a man to say a thing or write a thing that a large following will regularly give ear to, is exceedingly rare. When such a man is found he is strong enough to defy all laws of conduct. As a writer, either on the editorial force of the Oregonian, or on a metropolitan paper in the largest Eastern populated centers, he will make his presence felt. ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ On broad issues as affecting the destiny or the happiness of a people as a whole, he sees clearly. His vision as a forecast of future events carries him to heights that the men groping in the depths of material things can not hope to scale. ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ Here are found the limitations of human endeavor that invariably lead to decadence if not downfall, where energy and ability have not the mainstay of reasonable conservatism and good sense as a prop for enthusiastic effort to maintain a success that is once attained. This applies with striking force to the art of publishing a successful newspaper.
An able writer, for instance, may make his influence felt in his work on some prominent paper during a critical issue in the country's affairs. It is a time when opinions count ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ Portland residents whose memory of local events carries them back a quarter of a century or more, have only to recall to their minds the fact that hundreds of thousands of dollars have been spent in Portland in the futile effort to put the Oregonian out of business. ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ THE OREGONIAN BUILDING. PORTLAND.
Finest and most complete newspaper building in the West.
its principal support. He is seldom a popular man, and his cause has the weakness which we always find sooner or later where a following ties its destinies to individual leadership. It is in new and not too thickly populated countries that the editorial utterances of a strong paper have most force in shaping the public opinion of a community that may be the seat of its publication. ”

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E. G. Jones, The Pacific Monthly (1898)

“ In the letter referred to, this gentleman took occasion to say that the Oregonian had not succeeded as the result of opportunity afforded for its greatest development, but as the direct result alone of the high character of its principals in the face of adverse circumstances that would have effectually discouraged any man of weak moral fibre. ”

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