The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1866-11-22
An Editors Qualification.

~ Is 10 De mirror 10 give reflection
OF the outer word to your readers and
to receive reflection Of all uDcompli-
mentary sorts from them. 1t is to cater
to their amusement, minister to their
consolation, satisfy their curiosity, graf
Ity their tastes for the marvellous teach
them morals, religion and politics, form
their sentiments, lead them in wisdom.s
and folly's ways, show them to each
other, record their good deeds and their
bad deeds, publish their incomes, ad-
vertise their inventions, guide them in
youth, tell their friends and enemies
when they marry, and write their cpl
taphs. 1t is to make small men great,
and great men small, to build up and
to pull down, to puff quacks and to
expose humbugs, crack up theatrical
regulations and get full houses for niggcr
minstrels. 1t is to paint every days
picture on the canvass of the present,
and when the figures are scarce to re-
produce the past. 1T to be anybody's
servant and eyerybody's master. 1t is
to WELD mighty power and to be un-
der its control. It's to make the public
believe what you please, and to exercise
the same privilege yourself. 1t is to
publish canards and their contradictions
1t is to make and unmake cabinets, to
coerce presidents, raise armies, levy
taxes, fight battles, make treaties, dis
solve unions, manage reconstructions,
pardon and condemn traitors, and run
government generally. 1t is to work
harder, more hours in day, with less
recreation, on less sleep and poorer pay,
than any Of your fellow-mortals. 1t is
to be busy when your neighbors are
idle, buster when they sleep, and busiest
while they are enjoying a good time.
1t is to be always in a hurry, always
under press Of business, always "set-
ting up" when others are lying down,
and always charitably distributing the
result Of our daily labor 1t is to have
your opinions always put to "proof"
and seldom into practice. tits to ad-
vertise other peoples wants, wishes and
wares, to announce facilities for pleasure,
to herald the approach of diseases and
theinvention of cures for them, to make
known who has been robbed, where, of
how much, who is the robber, his per-
sonal history, his trial, sentence and its
execution. 1t is to receive nice fruit
and notice it, to be shown natural Gu
riosities and describe them, to be every
where at all times, and be able to answer
all questions on all subjects. 1t is to
publish too much sentiment for one, too
much politics for another, and too little
news for all. 1t is to make dozen
enemies to one friend, and to be pitched
into by anybody who chooses to con-
slider himself aggrieyed. 1t is to belabor
your brother editor across the way on
paper, and shake hands cordially when
you meet 1t is to publish a paper for
two dollars in advance that costs three,
to wait for your pay till collector has
gotten fifty per cent. for getting it, and
make living by the operation. 1t is
to take complimentary tickets to every
thing and pay for them in compliments
ry notices. 1t is to be bored by friends
suggesting how you should carry on
your business, and bullied by those
whom you have hit in vulnerable spots.
1t is to win every libel suit commenced