Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-05-04

III : an easy tHti1g, says INC S3''o' !" sh0
carpenter, 10 have nothing to'do buiJust rnb
b5i plane of yours, along board all day -
Let The sailor tty it, and as easy as it looks,
"he1l soon find out that he has not got the
mack to make II So vely easy.
''ll's an easy thing" says The carpenter to
the sailor, $50 si still on board of that vessel
and let the wind blow you along" Let the
farlnerlry it, and he'll fnd nigh-waiches,
tricks at The helm, taking in and making sail.
not so very easy, TO say nothing of gales OF
les 81 wind, lee shores, slowing cargo,
breaking out, aud worst of aI-shoverng
wheat in a hold, or staggering over deck
load oflrozen hogs IN squall at night, witt
all their legs sticking up just where they were
not expected, and cuung shins and breech
es just where you don't Iii e il pretty much;
ard that is about every where.
1t is so with almost every thing. No man
ieels The difficulties OF ano!her's Occupation
unill lie Tries il. Lawyer and doctor, Judge
md jury, tanner and sailor, all seem to have
easy work 10 their neighbors. until the said
nelghbors try on the job, and then they give
| ii up.
Bul there is one kind OF work that people
don't give up as moi easy on the first rial,
lis an easy thing" says Mr.. Mosl-evefy
body, ''tO edit paper, just to sl down and
wue lille now and then when you EEL in
clined; and when you don't, why just 10 cut
from the newspapers little here and ill.,
lie there 10 fill up, and then IFS so pleasant,
too, 10 have nothing TO do but just 10 tuln-
BILE over SO many papers that you get lof
nothing and that every one else hes TO pay
| iorn
To say nothing of the assumption in the
latter part of the sentence, that every bod,
has TO pay for their papers, which is unlor-
lunately rather wide OF the mark; the easy
part OF Ihe business is yet to be discovered
by those who have iairly tried the operation
"Oh, bur," says M. Every -body-eIse, 81
hare Tried ii fairly. used 10 write great
deal Tor the "Ralioad Of Republican ana
Cataract OF Freedon, published at Bellows
Falls, Wndun county. used TO wrile IA
column or so almost every week, and ponl
Out lois OF good things TO exract-more, in,
deed, than The editor ever got in. know
al about IT,;
Indeed? But did you ever try il alone?
Did you ever edit paper for three or -four
|
measure what you could put in. think what
you could nol reject, do things that you know
would be unpleasant TO many of your sub
scrbers, but that you believed ought to be
done, aud refuse 10 do what they wanted and
! you thought ought not to be done. No in
deed. There is many man who thinks he
knows just how paper ought to be edited
could give Iusl the advice wanted, but who
would in one little week, ayere his pens
nib was old, find out that there were troub-
| les in the editorial life that he had neveI
dreampt of.
Ii is not the mere writing that makes the
trouble, even with the wrlien portion, but il
is The necessity 10 write just al the exact
lime when your writing IN wanted, 70 write
on certain subjects that you perhaps don'I
wish to touch just then, 10 write on some you
don't care about at all. In seleclhng, 100,
you are not 10 please your own taste merely
though your own taste must be used even
when you are Sc ecIing those things that you
care not for, but that liked by Others
Self must be bal lIlle consulted in your pa
per.-You don' make a paper for your own
reading or to your own taste, though by yonT
own taste you must be guided in what is
for others, and you must, too, do better
than they could OF they will even under
value your labors then. Aut when those
! difficulties are overcome, you are not al the
end. There are hundreds of advisers who
want you 10 do hundreds of things 10
crafty their angry passions, that if they are
done, will injure your paper, and ensure
the contempt Of the advisers.
] It's not an easy thing TO edit paper, bur
il is an easy thing, and one Of the easiest
IN the world 70 abuse paper-teh how out
rageously wrongil is, decy Tin every way,
aud still easier 10 say where it is wrong when
YOU are determined il must always be wrong
except when il agrees with you.