Gooking Edwin L. 1902 1831- - Edwin Lawrence Godkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 1 of 2 Edwin Lawrence Godkin Note: Wrote at least the essay on B.H.a. a 1890'3 summer resort. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edwin Lawrence Godkin (October 2, 1831-May 21, 1902) was an American publicist. He was born in Moyne, county Wicklow, Ireland. His father, James Godkin, was a Congregationalist minister and a journalist, and the son, after graduating in 1851 at Queens College, Belfast, and studying law in London, was in 1853-1855 war correspondent for the London Daily News in Turkey and Russia, being present at the capture of Sevastopol, and late in 1856 went to America and wrote letters to the same journal, giving his impressions of a tour of the southern states of the American Union. He studied law in New York City, was admitted to the bar in 1859, travelled in Europe in 1860-1862, wrote for the London News and the New York Times in 1862-1865, and in 1865 founded in New York City The Nation, a weekly projected by him long before, for which Charles Eliot Norton gained friends in Boston and James Miller McKim in Philadelphia, and which Godkin edited until the end of the year 1899. In 1881 he sold the Nation to the New York Evening Post, and became an associate editor of the Post, of which he was editor-in-chief in 1883-1899, succeeding Carl Schurz. In the eighties he engaged in a controversy with Goldwin Smith over the Irish question. Under his leadership the Post broke with the Republican Party in the presidential campaign of 1884, when Godkin's opposition to nominee James G. Blaine did much to create the so-called Mugwump party, and his organ became thoroughly independent, as was seen when it attacked the Venezuelan policy of President Cleveland, who had in SO many ways approximated the ideal of the Post and Nation. He consistently advocated currency reform, the gold standard, a tariff for revenue only, and civil service reform, rendering the greatest aid to the last cause. His attacks on Tammany Hall were SO frequent and SO virulent that in 1894 he was sued for libel because of biographical sketches of certain leaders in that organization; cases which never came up for trial. In 1896, Godkin broke with the Democratic party after it nominated William Jennings Bryan. He supported the National Democratic Party (United States) third ticket because it championed a gold standard, limited government, and opposed protectionism. His opposition to the war with Spain and to imperialism was able and forcible. He retired from his editorial duties on the December 30, 1899, and sketched his career in the Evening Post of that date. Although he recovered from a severe apoplectic stroke early in 1900, his health was shattered, and he died in Greenway, Devon, England, on the May 21, 1902. Godkin shaped the lofty and independent policy of the Post and the Nation, which had a small but influential and intellectual class of readers. But as editor he had none of the personal magnetism of Greeley, for instance, and his superiority to the influence of popular feeling made Charles Dudley Warner style the Nation the weekly judgment day. He was an economist of the school of Mill, urged the necessity of the abstraction called economic man, and insisted that socialism put in practice would not improve social and economic conditions in general. In politics he was an enemy of sentimentalism and loose theories in government. He published A History of Hungary, A.D. 300-1850 (1856), Government (1871, in the American Science Series), Reflections and Comments (1895), Problems of Modern Democracy (1896) and Unforeseen Tendencies of Democracy (1898). References This article incorporates text from the Encyclopredia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Lawrence_Godkin 6/10/2006 Edwin Lawrence Godkin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Page 2 of 2 Life and Letters of E. L. Godkin, edited by Rollo Ogden (New York, 1907). David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, "Gold Democrats and the Decline of Classical Liberalism, 1896- 1900,"(http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?issueID=22&articleID=261)Independent Review 4 (Spring 2000), 555-75. Armstrong, William M. (1957). E.L. Godkin and American Foreign Policy, 1865-1900. New York: Bookman. Armstrong, William M. (1978). E.L. Godkin: A Biography. Albany: State University of New York. Godkin, Edwin Lawrence (1974). Armstrong, William M. The Gilded Age Letters of E.L. Godkin. Albany: State University of New York. External links Works by Edwin Lawrence Godkin (http://www.gutenberg.org/author/Edwin+Lawrence+Godkin)a at Project Gutenberg Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Lawrence_Godkin" Categories: 1911 Britannica I Newspapermen | 1831 births I 1902 deaths This page was last modified 17:58, 25 April 2006. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (see Copyrights for details). Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Lawrence_Godkin 6/10/2006 BIB[AND(edwin lawrence godkin[1,1016,2,3,4,6,3,3,5,100]AMC[1,5080,4,2])](10-1) Page 1 of 1 Records 10 through 10 of 25 returned. Author: Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902. Title: Papers, 1845-1927 (inclusive) Description: 11 boxes (3.6 linear ft.) Notes: Godkin was an editor and political writer. He was founder and first editor of The Nation (founded in 1865) and later also editor of the New York Evening Post. Chiefly correspondence of E.L. Godkin. Also includes letters to his second wife Katherine Sands Godkin, his son Lawrence Godkin, and Nation editor Wendell Phillips Garrison; letters to Charles Eliot Norton concerning the founding and early years of The Nation; and a few compositions, printed material, and photographs. Recataloged from MS Am 9012. Purchased from Mrs. Lawrence Godkin, 1936, (funds provided by the Friends of the Library: Oswald Garrison Villard, Mrs. Charles Dyer Norton, and James Byrne). Electronic finding aid available (263 KB) http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:1 FHCL. Hough:hou00085 Unpublished print finding aid available in Houghton Reading Room reference collection. Edwin Lawrence Godkin Papers (bMS Am 1083) Houghton Library, Harvard University. Subjects: Godkin, Edwin Lawrence, 1831-1902. Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865) American literature -- 19th century. American periodicals. United States -- History -- 1865-1921. Correspondence. aat Photographs. aat Editors. lcsh Other authors: Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount, 1838-1922. Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907. Godkin, Katherine Sands. Godkin, Lawrence, 1860- Howe, M.A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960. James, Henry, 1843-1916. Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891. Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908. Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903. Perry, Bliss, 1860-1954. Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir, 1854-1932. Other authors: Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865) Other titles: Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865) Location: Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138. MH-H bMS Am 1083 Control No. : MAHV86-A282 Tagged display | Previous Record Next Record | Brief Record Display | New Search This display was generated by the CNIDR Web-Z39.50 gateway, version 1.08, with Library of Congress Modifications. http://www.loc.gov/cgi-bin/zgate?present+2675128+Default+10+1+F+1.2.840.10003.5.10+ 4/5/2007 Histerical Essays. James F. Rhodes. alexian 1909: New York, Macivillan. EDWIN LAWRENCE GODKIN OUR two great journalists of the nineteenth century were Greeley and Godkin. Though differing in very many respects, they were alike in possessing a definite moral pur- pose. The most glorious and influential portion of Greeley's career lay between the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854 and the election of Lincoln in 1860, when the press played an important part in the upbuilding of a political party which formulated in a practical manner the anti- slavery sentiment of the country. Foremost among news- papers was the New York Tribune; foremost among editors was Horace Greeley. Of Greeley in his best days Godkin wrote : "He has an enthusiasm which never flags, and a faith in principles which nothing can shake, and an English style which, for vigor, terseness, clearness, and simplicity, has never been surpassed, except perhaps by Cobbett." Greeley and Godkin were alike in furnishing their readers with telling arguments. In northern New York and the Western Reserve of Ohio the Weekly Tribune was a political Bible. "Why do you look SO gloomy?" said a traveler, riding along the highway in the Western Reserve during the old antislavery days, to a farmer who was sitting moodily on a fence. "Because," replied the farmer, "my Democratic friend next door got the best of me in an argu- ment last night. But when I get my Weekly Tribune to- morrow I'll knock the foundations all out from under him." 2 Premising that Godkin is as closely identified with The 1 R. Ogden's Life and Letters of E. L. Godkin, I, 255. 2 Rhodes's History of the United States, II, 72 (C. M. Depew). 267 The Making of an 1890S Summer Resort by Edwin Godkin Many ask how Bar Harbor be- small means in search of pure air, and with a complete set of novelties in the came a summer resort for the wealthy milk fresh from the cow, and liberty matter of food and drink, forgetting, in the first place. Stories and legends - not to say license - in the matter however, that they might have got abound, but fortunately we can go of dress. Its development then begins them at home if they pleased. The tea back to the written word of a con- by some neighboring farmer's agreeing and coffee and bread differ from what temporary of this development to to take them to board - a thing he they are used to at home simply in be- get a clear, accurate "first-hand" ac- has never done before and now does ing worse. He is, too, at the seaside, count, so to speak. Our guide back unwillingly, and he is very uncertain very apt to put them on an exclusively in time is Edwin Lawrence Godkin, what to charge for it. But as a venture fish diet, in the belief that it is only a journalist, editor, and author. In he fixes what seems to him an enor- people who live by the sea who get 1865 he founded the weekly Nation mous sum - say $5 to $7 a week for fish, and that city people, weary of and later became editor-in-chief of the each adult. His ideas about food for meat, must be longing for fish. The New York Post. Here he describes the city people are, however, very vague. boarders, this first summer, having genesis of the affluent summer society The only thing about their tastes of persuaded him to take them, are of that was exemplified by Bar Harbor which he feels certain is that what course too modest to remonstrate, during its heyday in the 1890s. they seek in the country is, above all or even to hint, and go on to the end things, change, and that they accord- eating what is set before them, and N othing is more remarkable in the ingly do not desire what they get at pretending to be thankful, and try to history of American summering home. Accordingly he furnishes them keep up their failing strength by being than the number of new resorts which are discovered and taken possession Bernard Mansel of by "the city people" every year, the rapid increase in the means of transportation both to the mountains and the sea, and the steady encroach- Mountains of Mt. Desert Island seen from the Cranberry Isles ments of the cottager on the boarder 4 Trips Daily MAIL in all the more desirable resorts. The BOAT growth of the American watering- 7:30* BEAL & BUNKER, INC. place, indeed, now seems to be as 11:00 CRANBERRY ISLES much regulated by law as the growth 2:30 MAINE 04625 of asparagus or strawberries, and is 4:30 FERRY SERVICE (207) 244-3575 to Cranberry Isles almost as easy to foretell. The place from Northeast Harbor S usually first discovered by artists in *Except Sunday Municipal Pier search of sketches, or by a family of RIDE THE MAIL BOAT - It's the Local Thing! May 15 - June 11, 2005 7 Acadic Weekly