Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1871-06-14

IL VIII ne condemned. Nothing less thar
this, then, is the duty of the presto give
like the harp of EIlus, the varying sounds
Of different winds, while at the same time i
maintains its high position regardless 0
them all
s Another duty which the press owes to it,
contemporaries and to itself to them, cour.
tesy, fairness in debate and honorable COM
petition in business to itself, independence
Of judgment, dignity Of feeling and the
security and enjoyment of fair and ever
generous rewards Of toll.
OUR DUTY TO EACH OTHER,
| believe. is governed far less by that high
esprit du corps which characterizes the other
professions than it should be- To be sure
we are not spare of compliments when de-
served, but are as quick as others TO ban
dy cpithcts or toss reprOach, even when We
know, as none others can, how the million
voiced press intensIhes all it touches, and
hardcns words which. if merely passed from
mouth 10 mouth, might SOON become soltened
by smile. The slight mistakes of cotem-
pOrary should never be held up to scorn, for
all Of as are liable to them every day. Moth
ing but his settled character is worthy of a
brothers steel, and then if there is bitterness,
= faithful wounds - arc their own defense
In this connection | cannot forbear to urge
that the press should be
/ IMPERsoNAL.
y newspaper is greater than any man be-
cause it is often made up by several men,
and IL rrudcntly conducted. is always the
voice OF many more. If too free Of the
editorial '' we makes the egotist,
-'--o great above the common span,
It takes the plural TO express the man.
il makes the paper itself 50 small below the
common run. it takes dozen to attain the
dignity OF one. ! have a case in mind where
an editor was bitterly assailed through the
columns Of another periodical, for what an
associate wrote, and only recently one Of our
brethren, in passing a compliment to an
other for something in his paper, - hit the
wrong man. corrected it, and bit wrong
again, and at last gave it up because the
matter was Of too little consequence to digni-
+ fy with type for the third time Ia journal
/ ISM, therefore, we should know journals, and
not those who grind them out The aid Of a
I great art brings even to our little utterdnces
some dignity and some respect, but | fear
chat in some cases II Is equally true that
familiarity breeds contempt" You remem-
+ Ter the story Of the two woodsmen who saw
Il locomotive for the first time After look
iu5 it all over, and even venturing to touch
it, enc said to the man in the cab, " Be
you the cngincer2' Being answered in the
affirmative, the innocent surveyed him from
top 10 toe, and then turning to his compan-
ion, sIid 90 1t don't take much of man TO
he ais good as an engineer, do it, Bill ?'
Therefore, J say, gentlemen,
Accept ali our Journals for what they arc,
And fu.ls him :. Unknown who sits IN the chair.
urErI>G oyE's SELF ~ ORDER TO HARM
OTHERS.
In Vermont most editors are also proprie-
tors. and have, therefore, not only their
intellectual standing to win and maintain,
. Int Q frf and
advantages TO secure. They are often in
sharp competition, and as all the rewards Of
thc pres. are very small, in order that they
may hc many this competition Is in danger
ol descending % humiiiItng trifles and be-
coming tainted with dishonor, unless it is'
couutcractcd and upheld by a high sense Of
professional dignity, and by charity which
+ btarcth adj things, and :" cndurcth all
things" III other professions, however
much q man may want business, it is con-
silercl uurrolcssional in him to cut below
fair and common price on the one hand, or
tai c advantage OF ignorance or distress to
he eZ1riItaut upon he other, and the shyster
Who does IT is left to find his rewards in
gatas where gentleman disdain to walk, and
while there, he finds after little, thai
though Sc umhlc IrIah HeeP, ana
honest - as llgO, he has sunk beneath the
contempt and far beneath the patronage OF
every manly man - iU should be in our
frafgs-ian 1culiemcn, and 50 IL will be if we
,re trss ID principle, true to interest, true
~ -sch other and true to Jurselve-
Eur while a few such evils as this VIII
occas igulv iulgst fair and legitimate Journal
ism, iJr ways that are dark and for tricks
that are vain, these
TAFERs WITH FOREIGN BOWELS
arc e. pcculilr.' Within Il very few years,
cJmp4nics have been organized in some OF
d N.rr N,,.lr f.~a M
ing and printing one entire SHE of full
sheet, and lHcu. instead of sending it out as
other city publishers do, to actual subscrI-
b rs. they furnish it 10 + ain feeble country
Offices cheaper than regular publishers can
buy their blank paper. The companies can
afford to do this because they secure remu-
neratiyc advertisements, for many business
men are green enough to suppose that they
cniov tremendous circulation. The same
bali printed sheet is furnished to a large
nuIuier Of different Offices, 50 that the cost |
of editorial labor and Of composition Is |
we'd TO suit all the different shades OF
opinion. certain number are worked Oh /
Containing one or two strong RepublIcaD |
articles. chen another batch with these arti- |
cIcs lett out and stTcng Democratic articles !
written p. tic same pen, inserted, 80 that at
length these r,ady-madc opinion moulds have
actually advertised their productions as either |
-ul6 purchasers. Such an accommodating !
disposition w0a.d hardly secure them much J
patronage If they had to 60 beo the sturdy
people Tor IL, but it serves them profitable
end, since their only patrons are those cOun-
try publishers of prOstItuted principles, who
are willing 20 deal out the product OF such
hash mills at second hand What Is it that
rcoplc take paper for ? Partly for its news,
party for it's views, and partly Tor Its adver-
li-emcnts. And yet the news OF these
:. insldes = Is always a week or more older
than that Of legitimate papers their views
are those Of men who publicly proclaim that
they ride three horses d different directions
at the same time, and their advertisements
are of necessity all foreign from the locality
where the paper purports to issue
Therefore, so far as one entire half OF the
paper is concerned, it falls far below that
standard Of interest, which freshness and
nearucss always give, and as for the other
half. it is what might be expected from men
who find it mposs bic to make a whole news
paper, and arc therefore willing not only to
deceive their patrons but to disgrace the
profession, which has always been accredited
with some principles and some brains, by |
goino into the market to hawk about other
neoule's wares So far as my knowledge
goeS, not a single newspaper establishment
ia the country Of any recognized standing
and influence has adopted the sybIeh' anu
in a great majority Of cases the papers are
dated at little villages where in fact they are
not issued. and are issued from places where |
they are not in sufficient demand to support
an establishment. They are fraud on ad-
vertisers, fraud upon subscribers, fraud
upon the government in the matter OF post
age. and scandal on the honest and iaoorl-
Gus press They . half and halt OF
rhat which is old enough TO be stale, and
that which is fat enough to be dlshwater,
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