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Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 709, 3 January 1903, Page 3

Truth writes -.—There is a great man in our midst at present —Mr David Syuie, of the Melbourne Age. Ho lias attained to dignity of being caricatured as often as Mr George Roid, or our own Prime Minister, and "the current belief is that his paper and its rival, the Argus are each holding an end of the destiny of Australia. Mr Syme will not bo interviewed, but the fame of his greatness cannot be hidden. Personally, he thinks that he is keeping the groggy Commonwealth on its feet, and is not only making it face the dawD, but is providing the dawn to bo faced. He could tell us a lot of things about Australia in an '• Age-y ” way, but he will not. So we can"only report his presence as a large fact. It was he who thirty-four years ago reduced the price of the Age from 3d to Id, and grew to greatness thereon while the Argus was charging 3d. His friends allego that that is the greatest thing he did. His enemies say it was his greatest crime, as it caused his paper to circulate in thousands of happy homes that had never heard of him before. Mr Syme, by the way, never says “ My paper,” but, in a voice as if he were talking of the universe itself, says “ The policy of the Age is so and so.” But he is a force in Australia all the same, and regards Australia as a tbiDg invented to be discussed by his journal.

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