Article February 15, 1913 Issue

We want a daily paper, a paper to give us accurate information,...

Sheffield (England) Guardian

We want a daily paper, a paper to give us accurate information, not of our own town alone nor of our country, which may be but a small and comparatively insignificant little island off the coast of Europe, like England let us say, but of every throb and pulse of the great heart of the great human race. We should not demand a list of the world's failures, its crimes, the wholesale murder of war, and the calculated perjury of politics, unless it be for the purpose of ventilating and purifying by giving light and air to that which has formerly been nurtured in secret obscurity along with the accumulations of dust and cobwebs.

Let there be light, is the constant demand of the spirit of our age. Let there be light, more knowledge to enable mankind to conquer the forces of nature, more light and sunshine that they may rise with the mist at daybreak from the brute clay to take possession at noon of their mighty heritage, falling in crystal purity with blessing upon a thirsty world and commanding a glorious harvest of kindness and joyful labor. Too long have we retained the clan spirit, and now we demand a newspaper universal enough in its scope to give us the world spirit. We feel stifled within the narrow limits of the city boundary, and we take an excursion into the country in search of freedom, only to find the country boundary, not a real boundary, imposed by callous nature or by an autocratic god, but a man-made limitation, only real enough to increase the cost of administration, to cramp somewhat our sense of the vastness of our heritage. These boundaries chafe us, and we take a cheap trip to the coast only to find a national boundary, on one side of which we must say, "God save the king," and on the other, "Confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks."

We demand a newspaper to carry us across these man-made limitations and make us rejoice in the fruitful earth as a whole. Miller, why do you weep? The baker has need of your mill and will give you bread. England, why do you lament the harvest? Your manufactories have never before been so busy. The world's harvest has never before been so abundant. Look out, O England, from your self-made boundaries and see that the world has abundance for your every need. Such should be the message of our daily newspaper. Whether we understand the full meaning of Christian Science or not, whether we have sufficient evidence by us to admit its claim to the position of universal panacea, we must at least give praise where it is due and welcome the effort of this rapidly growing movement to abolish every boundary of state and class, of sect and party, by just such a daily paper as the one we have described.

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