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Title: Annals of Iowa
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Samuel Storrs, 1808-1888 Parvin, Theodore Sutton, 1817-1901 Lloyd, Frederick Huff, Sanford W Aldrich, Charles, 1828-1908 Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941 Iowa. Division of Historical Museum and Archives State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa. Historical Dept Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
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Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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liar mental fever that is developed in human crowds always ex-cited by the perpetual friction of man against man, demands a literaturewhich feeds that excitement. It demands a yellow novel and a yellownewspaper. Many old-time, truth-telling newspapers of great cities dwin-dle in patronage. The new journalism flourishes in the densely popu-lous city which it corrupts with its reckless scandals, its frequent falsity,its immodesty and its columns distended with details of crime. One-halfthe crime of the country is the result of this public familiarity with detailsof crime which appeal to the imagination of youth, and recur to the mem-ory in time of temptation. God forbid this kind of journalism shall everinvade the tranquil homes of agriculture and poison the pure fountainsof its social life. Sensationalism provokes a mental drunkenness whichdistorts the judgment and ends in moral disease. Iowa journals, I believe,do not, ought not, and will not find in sensationalism a source of profit.
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HON. THEODORE S. PARVIN, LL. D. . Private Socntary to (icn. Robert Lucap, tirst (xovornor of Iowa Territory. 183S;first Librarian of Jowa Territory, INW: District Prosecuting? Attorney,ReKi-^ter of State Land-OOice Ls^T-oit; (hand Secretary of MasouicGrand Lodt,e of Iowa, 1.^44-51 and since 1N)2; founder of theMasouic Library at Cedar Rapids. IOWA HISTORICAL BUILDING. 99 The sensational condition is alien to rural society, to its habits of thought,and stories of scandal and crime are unwelcome to the household whosemembers find more happiness and pleasure in looking at a virtuous worldthan at a world of crime. We have a right, therefore, to expect in the de-velopment of Iowa a truthful, sensible and uncorrupt journalism, andalit--erature which gives more strength to the mind than agitation to the nerves.Every township should have its modest library of well-chosen volumes ofhistory, biography, travel, popular science, and healthy romance for thewinter evenings and leisure hours of farm

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