Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-07-14

gone to Egypt as recommended you to,
might have had q chance to get my
hand in but you wouldn't do II, and here
you are. sort of expected you
The editor was looking sad, and per-
picked, and detected. He surveyed the
wreck which that old rioter and those two
young farmers had made, and then said
"This is q sad business, q very sad bust
ness There is the mucilage bottle
broken, and six panes of glass, and spit
toon, and two candiesticks. But that is
not the worst. The reputation of the
paper is injured, and permanently, I fear.
True, there never was such call for the
paper before, and il never sold such
large edition, or scared to such celeb
rity; but does one want to be famous for
lunacy, and prosper upon the infrmities
of his mind? Ny friend, as / am an hon.
est man, the street out here is full of peo-
pie, and others are roosting on the fences,
waiting to get glimpse of you, because
they think you are crazy. And well they
might after reading your editorials.
They are Q disgrace to Journal
ism. Why, what put it into your
head that you could edit . paper
of this nature? You do not seem to
know the first rudiments of agriculture.
You speak of furrow and harrow a.
being the same thing; you talk Of the
season for cows; and you recon-
mend the dOmesticatiOn of the polecat
on account of its playfulness and its ex.
cellence a. q. ratter. Your remark that
clans will lie quiet if music be played to
them, was superfluous-entirely super
fuous. Nothing disturbs CLAIMS. CLANS
al.oays lie Gui0t. CLANS care nothing
whatever about music. All, Heavens and
earth, friend, if you had made the acquir-
ing Of ignorance the study Of your life,
you could not have graduated with higher
honor than you could to day. never
saw anything like it. Your observation
that the horse-chestnut, as an article OF
commerce, is steadily gaining in favor, is
simply calculated to destroy this journal.
want you to throw up your situation and
20. want no more holiday could not
enjoy it if l had il. Certainly not with
you in my chair. would always stand
in dread of what you might be going TO
recommend next. 1t makes me lose all
patience every time think of your dis
cussing oyster beds under the head of
Landscape Gardening l want you to
20. Nothing ON earth could persuade me
to take another holiday. Oh, why didn't
you tell me you didn't know anything
about agriculture?
Tell you, you cornstalk, you cabbage,
you SON of cauliflowerl It's the first
time ever heard such an unfeeling re-
mark. tell you have been in the ed
itorial business going on fourteen years,
and it's the first time ever heard of
mans having to know anything in order
to edit newspaper. You turnip! Who
write the dramatic critiques for the sec,
ond rate papers! Why, q parcel of pro-
noted shoemakers and apprentice
apothecaries, who know just as much
about good acting as l do about good
farming, and no more. Who review the
bookss People who never wrote one.
Who do up the heavy leaders on finance
Parties who have had the largest oppor-
tunities for knowing nothing about it.
Who criticise the Indian campaigns?
Gentlemen who do not know a war -whOop
from . wigwam, and who never have had
to run foOt-race with tomahawk, or
pluck arrows out of the several members
of their families to build the evening camp
fire with. Who write the temperance ap-
peals and clsmor about the flowing bowl ?
Folks who will never draw sober breath
till they do it in the grave. Who edit the
agricultural papers, you-yamf Men, as
general thing, who fail in the poetry
line, yellow-covered novel line, sen
sation drama line, city editor line,
and finally fall back on agricul
tufe as temporary reprieve
from the Poor House. You try to tell me
anything about the newspaper business |!
Sir, have been through it from Alpha to
Omaha, and tell you that the less man
knows the bigger noise he makes and the
higher the salary he commands Heaven
knows if had been ignorant instead Of
cultivated, and impudent instead of diff
fdent, could have made name fOfsmy-
self in this cold selfish world. takemy
leave, sir. since have been treated as
you have treated me, am perfectly willing
to 90. But have done my duty, / have
fulfilled my contract, as far as was per
mitted to do it. l said could make your
paper of interest to all classes, and have
l said could run your circulation up to
twenty thousand copies, and il had two
more weeks I'd have done it. And I'd
have given you the best class Of readers
that ever an agricultural paper had-not
farmer in it, nor solitary individual who
could tell water melon from peach-vine
to save his life. You are the loser by this
rupture, not me, Pie plant. Adlos"
then left-Galdzy.