Eaton Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1843-1856, 1855-12-27
IT'S AN EASY THING.

"lrs an easy thing" says the sailor 10 the
"to have nothing 10 do but just
RIB that plane of yours along board all day."
Let The sailor try il-and OS easy as ii looks,
che II soon find ont ihat he has not got the
knack 10 make il so very easy.
"lrs an easy thing" says the farmer 10 the
sailor, "to sit still on board that vessel and
lei The wind blow you along" Let the far
me try it, and he'll find night watches, trick
at the helnI, taking in and making sail, not
so very easy, TO say nothing OF gales Of wind,
lee shores, slowing cargo, bTeaking out, and
worst OF all shove ling wheat in o hold, or
staggering over peck load Of frozen hogs in
SQuall at night, with all their legs sticking
up Just where they were not expected, and
cutting Shins and breecheS Just where you
don't like il pretty much, and that is about
everywhere.
1t is so with almost everything. No man
feels the difficulties Of another'S occupation
until he tries il. Lawyer and doctor, Judge
and jury, farmer and 81 ior, all seem 10 have
easy work 10 their neighborS, until the said
neighborS Try on the job, and then give it up.
But there is one kind of work that people
don't give up not as easy on the first trial.
"l;S an easy thing" says Mr. Most everybody,
";o edit paper, just 10 sit down and write a
little now and then when you feel inclined
and when You don't why just cut out from the
newspaper little here and little there 10
i'll up, and then it's so pleasant, too, 10 have
no.hing 10 do but just 10 tumble over so many
papers that you get for nothing, and that eve.
ny one else has TO pay for"
TO say nothing Of the assumption in the lat-
ter part Of The sentence, that everybody has ia
pay for their papers, which is unfortunately
rather wide Of the mark, the easy part OF tie
business is yet 10 be discovered by those who
have fairly tride the operation.
'Nh, but says Mr.. Everybody else, {" have
tried it fairly. used 10 wule a great deal
for the railroad OF repubIcanism, aud Catu
Iact OF Ffeedom, published at Bellows Falls
Windup county. used 10 write a column o.
so almost every week, and point out lots o
good things 10 extract-more, indeed, than the
editor ever g,t ill.,. ! know all about it,"
Indeed But did you ever Try it alone
Did you ever edit paper for three or loul
months, elect and reject, write and refuse
measure what you could put in, think wha
you could not reject, do things that you knew
would be unpleasant 10 llany Of your subscT
beTS but that you believe ought 10 be done
and refuse 10 do what they wanted and you
thought ought not 10 be done. No indeed
| There is many man who thinks he knows
just how paper ought 10 be edited, coul,
| give just the ADVICE wantel, but who woult
| in one lille week, ay ere his penis nib wa
Old, find out that there were troubles ia The
editorial life that he should never have dreamp
| of.
No men have 10 he more careful than ed
itors. All their words are weighed, and !
is right they should be-nnd slip on thei
part is never 10 be forgiven. Men who are de
nounciEg their political enemies in the gross
est language, will not forgive an editor fo
even limiting that their friends are not perfect
They can repeat jokes against their enemies
but q jake at their friends makes them indg
1ant at the gross Obuse Of the press. The
men most violent in their abuse of others, mos
care less of what severe or unfounded thing.
they assert, are always the most ready 10 be
bitterly indignant when word is said aga ms
them, their principles or their motives. Ever
generailieS cannot pass with them. Thel
insist that they knew what the editor meant
! and will not bear such abuse.
1t is not an easy thing 10 edit paper, bu
it is all easy thing, aud one OF the easiest il
the world TO abuse q paper tell how cutra
geousIy wrong it is, decry it in every way
and still easier 10 say where it is wrong whel
you are determined il must always be wrong
except when il agrees with you.
CoxsoLNG.-Somebody has The poteness'i I
inform his felo% men as follows:
You'll be forgotten. as old debts
By persons who are used to borrow;
Forgotten, as the sun that SETS