The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1848-05-02
IT'S AN EASY THING.


carpenter, ito have no,hing To do but just rub
that plane Of yours, along boafd all day.
Let the sailor Try it, and as easy a. il looks,
she'll soon find Oh. that he has not got the
mack 10 make u So very easy.
''l,'s an easy thing," says The carpenter to
The sailor, $40 SIT slili 0n 6oard Of that vessel
and let The wind blow you along" Let the
farmer Try it. and he'll 6ud nght-waiches,
tricks at the helm, taking IN and making sail,
not SO very easy, to say no'hIng of gales Oi
gales OF wind, lee shores, s.owing cargo,
breaking oui, aud worst Of all-shpsering
wheat in hold, or staggering over deck
load of frozen hogs ia squall at night, with
all their legs sticking up JUS. where they were
not expected, aud cuung sinus and breech
es JUS, where you dou', lii e il pretty much;
AID that is about every whore.
I, is so with lmosi every thing. No man
eels The difficulties of anolher's occupation
until he tries il. Lawyer and doctor, Judge
and Jury, farmer and sailor, all seem to have
easy work to their Neighbours. until the said
neighbors try ON the job, and then they give
il up.
But there is one kind OF work that people
don.i give up as not easy on The first rial,
Ills an easy lhng." says Mr., Mos,-every-
body, 40 edit paper, just 10 ST. down and
wrile little now aud then when you ,eel in.
ciined; aud when you dun',, why Just to Gu,
from the newspapers litsle here aud a li.
lie There TO fill up, aud then it's SO pleasant,
TOO, to have nolhIng 10 Do buI just 10 tum.
Dle over SO lnany papets that you got io'
nutnlng aud that every one else hes 10 pay
Tor"
To say nothing Of the assumption in tn.
latter part of the senleu nee, that every bod,
has to pay Tor their papers, which is unto'
tunately rather wide vi Tie mark; the easy
past Of The business is YET to be discovered
by ihose who have iaIriy tried the operation
.sOh, but" s,ys M. Every -body.eIse, "I
hare Tried IL ,iaiIiy. used 10 wife guea
deal Tor The ''kail,oad Uf Republican an,
Calarac, ot Freedom" published al Bellows
Falls, Wlndun County. used 10 wri,e I
colamn or 80 almost every week, and pon
Oul lots Of good things To exlract-morc, in
deed, than the editor ever got la. | know
all about it,"
Indeed? Bui did you ever try il alone?
Did you ever edit paper tor three or fon
months, selec. aud reject, write aud refuse
measure what you could put in, think VITA
you could mol rejec', dO lhlags tina, you know
would be unpleasant To many Of your sub
scribers, but that you believed ough, To b'
done. and refuse to do what they wan, ed ant
you thought ought not 10 he done. No IN
deed. There Is many man who thinks b.
knows just how paper ought to be edited
could give Just the advice wanted, but VIII,
would in one little week, .ayere his pen'
nib was old, fluid out that there were tfoub
les in the editorial life that he had neve
dreampt of.
IL is not the mere writing that makes the
trouble, even with The written portion, but i
is The necessity 10 write just at the exac
lime when your writing IN wanted, TO write
on certain subjects that you perhaps don
wish TO touch just then, TO write an some you
don't care about al all. In selecihing, TOO
you are. not 10 please your own taste merely
though your own taste must be used even
when you are Sc leciing ibs,se things tina. you
care not for, but that are liked by Others
Self must be but little CONSULTED in your pa
per.-You don'I make a paper for your own
reading or TO your own taste, though by your
own taste you must be guided in what is
Tor others, and you must, too. do better
Than they could :ot they. will even under,
value your labors ihen.: Al, when those
difficulties are overcome, you are not a, the
end. There are hundreds .oF advisers who
want you 10 do hundreds of things tn
crafty their angry passions, that if they are
done, will inju'e your paper, and essure
the contempt OF tie advisers.
IL is not an easy thing To edit paper, bu,
il is an easy thing, and one OF the easiest
in the world To abuse a paper-tell how out.
rageousy wrongu is, decry il in every way
aud still easier tosay where il il wrong wher
you are determined j, must always be wrong
except when il agrees With you.
A STREAM OF CROroN THROWN ON Moon.