Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1866-11-02

1t is to be a mirror to give reflection of the
outer world to your readers and to receive
reflection of all uncomplimentary sorts from
them 1t is to cater to their amusement,
minister to their consolation, satisfy their
curiosity, crafty their tastes for the mar
velous, teach them morals, religion and pol
itics, form their sentiments, lead them in
wisdom and folly's ways, show them to
each other, record their good deeds and
their bad deeds, publish their incomes, ad-
Yertise their inventions, guide them in
youth, tell their friends and enemies when
they marry, and write their epitaphs 1t is
to make small men great and great men
small, to build up and pull down, to puff
quacks and to expose humbugs, crack up
theatrical regulations and get full houses
for higger minstrels It is to paint every
day picture on the canvass of the present,
and when the figures are scarce to-produce
the past. 1t is to be anybody S servant and
everybody's master 1t is to WELD mighty
power and to be under its control. 1t is 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, dissolve unions, man
age reconstructlons, 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 setting UP" when others are lying
down, and always charitably distributing"
the result of our daily labor. lti to have
your opinions always put to proof and
seldom into practice. 1t is to advertise 9TH
er people wants, wishes and wares, to an
nounce facilities for pleasure, to herald the
approach of disease and the invention of
cures For them, to make known who has
been robbed, where, of how much, who is
the rObber, his personal history, his trial,
sentence and its execution. 1t is to receive
nice fruit and notice it, TO be shown natural
curiosities 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 poll
ties for another, and too little news for all.
Il is to make dozen enemies to one friend,
and to be pitched into by anybody who choos-
es to consider himself aggrieyed. 1t is to
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on paper, and shake hands cordially when
you meet 1t is to publish 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 compliment
tary tickets to everything and pay for them
in complimentary notices 1t is to be bored
by friends suggesting how you should carry
ON your business, ard bullied by those
whom you have hit in vulnerable spots. 1t
is to win every libel suit commenced against
YOU and to lose money on your publishing
that you sit up at nights with job press to
earn 1t is life of mingled good aud i'll,
trial and triumph, neyer-ending toll and
never-be beginning felicity, wherein you work
out your allotted time with the devil al
ways at your elbow, calling for your sole end
in this life--a little more copy Tile Printer.