The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1866-10-31
An Editor.s aualincatIons. q

tits to be a mirror to give reflection Of
the outer world to your readers and to re.
ceive reflection Of all uncomplimentary
sorts from them. Il is to cater to their
amusement, minister to their consolation,
satisfy their curiosity, crafty their tastes
for the marvellous, teach them morals, re-
ligion and politics, form their sentiments,
lead them 10 wisdom's and folly's ways,
show them to eac;s other, record their
good deeds and their bad deeds, publish
their incomes, advertise 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 ex.
pose humbugs, crack up theatrical repu.
tations and get full houses for niger min
strels. II is to paint every days picture
on the canyass Of the present, ard when
the figures are scarce to reproduce the
past. It is to be anybodys servant and
everybody's master. II is to WELD 9
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. It is to publish canards and
their contradictions. II is to make and
unmake Cabinets, to coeree presidents,
raise armies, levy taxes, fight battles, make
treaties, dissolve unions, manage recon.
strgctiong, pardon and condemn traitors,
and run government generally. It is to
work harder, moro hours in day, with
less recreation, on less sleep and poorer
pay, than any of your fellow-mortals. II
is TO be busy when your neighbors are
idle, buster when they sleep, the busiest
while they are enjoying good time. 1t
is to bo always in hurry, always under a
press Of business, always "setting up"
when others are lying down, and always
charitably "distributiug' the result Of our
daily labor. 1t is to have your opinions
always put to tprOoi" and seldom into
practice. 1t is to advertise other peo-
ple's wants, wishes aad wares, to ANNOUNCE
facilities for pleasure, to herald the ap'
proach Of diseases aud 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 it's execution. 1t is
to receive nice fruit and notice it, to be
shown natural curiosities apd describe
them, to be everywhere at'alI times, and
be able to answer all questions on all sub.
jects. 1t is to publish too much senti.
ment for one, too much politics for anoth
er, aud too little news for all. 1t is to
make dozen enemies to one friend, and
to be pitched iDto by anybody who chooses
to consider himself aggrieved. 1t is to be-
labor your brother editor across the way
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 got
ten fifty per cent. for getting it, and make
a living by the operation. It's TO take
complimentary 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,
and bullied by those whom you have bit
n vulnerable spots. 1t is to win every
libel suit commenced against you, and to
loose money on your publishing that you
sit up at nights with a job press to earn.
It is a life Of mingled good and i'll, trial
aud triumph, never-ending toll and never
beginning felicity, wherein you work out
your allotted time with the "devip' al
ways at your elbow, calling for your sole
end in this life-a little more copy.