Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1871-12-30
The Local Editor.

CUluiuuS VI .CCtiuutl hOh0hiy, coiuO'
what sharply criticised that generally
most over-wOrked, and least apprecia-
ted of all the toilers in the field of
journalism, the local editor, the editor
Uf the HillsbOro, Ull.) News Letter
comes to the defence and vindlcation
of the abused local, and makes out a
strong case his favor. Admitting that
there are scallawags in the class, it
proceeds to say:
ssThe Local Editor, as rule, is a
much better man than ne gets credit OF
being. His work is little known, and
is still less appreciated by the CON-
munity. He often throws the mantle
of charity over misfortunes, that would
only call out the unfeeling criticisms
of the pOpulace.
The conscientious Local Editor
learns to know the deriving in the coni-
munity, and to give them the aid that
no one else can render.
"The Local Editor learns 10 be the
friend and prOmpter of everything that
is good in the community, and the
enemy of all that is wrong. He is al
most universally the friend of educa-
ton, of mental and moral culture, and
OF substantial financial progress.
Gle throws his columns open to no.
tices IF church festivals, he pays men
from ten to twenty dollars per week to
set the type for the articles, written
while others Sleep that make public
the business advantages OF the city in
which he lives, or push forward some
Improvement in the growth and pros
perity of the community.
"Is an old and valued citizen called
to the better world, the local editor
with no sham sympathy speaks OF his
life ami services in such manner as
to make other men seek to live so that
when departing, they, too; shall leave
footprints in the sand of time.' Ii a
citizen gets into trouble and is wrong
ed. the first man he runs to is the
Local Editor.
" Are the friends of any public i'm
prUvement, anxious to push the work
along, they Immediately harness up
the Local Editor and request him to
pull
+" Are there any poor in the com
munity whose wants need looking at.
ter. the Local calls the attention OF the
public to the matter, and rot unfre
! duently takes something from his lear
pocket-book to give to the needy.
"Has any one done a cOmmendablt
or generous. act, he or she is thanked
without expense to any one except thu
Local Editor.
! "Is there any lawlessness in th'
community, the Local Editor, at til.
risk of losing the top of his head, de
nOunces it and causes its discOntinu
ance.
"And, as to the personal mention
which the Local Editor frequently
makes, we have this to say: No news
paper publisher who has brains or de
cency will make personal mention of {
citizen wilfully that will give offense
unless it be. in the shape of eensure
which the editor feels it his duty to ad
minister. There is an occasional asl
that gets mad If he is personally no
tiued, and gets a little niadder ifh'
isn't noticed at all. But, for the peac,
of mind of the Local Editor; these fool'
are few and harmless. If a man makes
himself public enemy, he must expec
public censure; otherwise he can re
main tintroubled by disagreeable men
ton in the local paper
Occasionally Local Editor is un
able to keep his own private hates an,
grievances out of his columns, and i
constantly making little thrusts a
!, some member Of the community WHOM
: , he does not like, or has quarreled with
! Such an editor should leave his ed
torial chair and go to hoeing corn, O
I; to some other equally appropriat
/. work.
!, ain conclusion we wish to reiterat
our statement, heretofore made, j
: different language, that few more col
siderate and fiagnanimous men tina
the Local Editor live, and that he d.
e serves the warmest encouragement
e the community in which he is located
e 1t is becoming customary for tn
:, Democracy to prate upon the CORFU
4 ton of Southern carpet bag goverl
) ments. Governor Alcorn, of Mississil
S pi astonisl,ed the natives, by. prodn
s ing FROM the records of that State, Vi
+ deniable evidence that under Dem
r cratic rule, exclusive of the war del
e from 1861 to 1865, forty million, fOl
e hundred and eighty-seven thousan
= four hundred and twenty dollars al
II eighteen cents had been stolen fro
" the treasury. His opponent, Gener
II Lowry. was silenced by facts.
lei A painter was employed In paintiI
h West India ship in the river. 81
,r pended on a stage under the stel
" The captain who was going ashore il
IL boat ordered the boy to let 60 I
,e painter. The boy Instantly went ;
and let go the rope by which the pa
ter's stage was held. The captain, s.
nriSed at the DELAY. cried out q