A Lost Occupation

The Hon. John Wentworth oom prebenda the present coDdition of' politics. He says the newspaper has made the orator a thing of the past, and destroyed the usefulnens of inass meetings and othor claptrap aocessories tor campaigns. And why '! Siaiply beoauc they prosout the arguments of partios f they are party journals, or the facts if the nowspapers aro independent} and the reader i.s enabled to decide f ir hinuelf, uninfluenced by appaaJl to lii.s pus.iions and uncontrolled by the personal luagnetiütu of orators. The voter, havinj; beoouje a reader, is also a thioker. Asa thinker he riiM (operior (o denitgogiiet and tlieir toola.