Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-06-14

actcr Is worthy Of brothers steel, and
thsnii there Is bitterness faithful wounds
arc their own defence. 10 this connect
Ion cannot Eorbear to urge that the pres
should be impersOual.
| A newspaper is greater than any man,
because il ID often made up by several mer
and If pruden,ly conducted, is always the
voice Of many more. lfa too free use Of
the editorial eve" makes the eg0tist.
- great shove the common sPan.
| Il takes the plural 10 express the mHn-'
it makes the paper itself 50 small below
the common run it takes a dozen to attain
the dignity of one.
In Vermont most editors are also pro-
prietors, and have. therefore. not only
their intellectual standing to achieve aud
advantages 10 secure. They are often
10 sharp competition, and as all the re-
wards Of the press are very small, in or.
der that they may be many this COMPETE
ton is in danger Of defending to humilia-
ting triaes and becoming tainted with dis
honor, unless it is counteracted and up
held by a high sense of professional digni.
ty, aud by a charity which "beareth all
things, and "endureth all things" Ia
the other professions, however much a man
may want business, it is considered unpro-
fessional 10 him to cut below fair and
Common price on the one hand, or take
advantage of ignorance or distress to be
exor5itant upon the other, and the shys-
ter who does it is left to find his rewards
in paths whore gentlemen disdain TO walk,
and while there may be some men small
enough to seek him there, he finds after a
little, that though tumble" as Uriah Heep
and "honest" as lago, he has sunk be-
meath the contempt and far beneath the
patronage Of every manly mau. So it'should
be 10 our profession, gentlemen, and so it
will be if we are true to principle, true to
interest, true to each other and true to
ourselves.
But while few such evils as this will
occasionly infeSt fair aud legitimate jour-
nalism, "for ways that are dark and for
tricks that are vain," these papers with
foreign bowels are peculiar" Within a
few years companies have been organized
in some of the western cities and in New
York for editing aud printing one entire
side Of full sheet, and then, instead Of
sending it out as other city publishers do,
to actual subscribers they furnish it to
certain feeble country offices cheaper than
regular publishers can buy their blank pa
per. Tho companies can oford TO do this,
they secure remunerative adver-
isements, for many business men are green
enough to suppose that they enjoy tre-
nednous circulation. The same half print
ID sheet is furnished to large number of
different Offices, SO that the cost Of edito-
ial labor and of composition is saved. To
nit all the different shades of opinion, a
! certain number are worked off contain.
ng one or two strong Republican articles,
hen another batch with those articles left
'ut and strong Democratic articles, writ
zen by the same pen, inserted, SO that at
ength these rcady.made opinion moulds
nave actually advertised their product.
lions as either Republican, Democratic or
Independent, to suit purchasers" Such
IN accommodating disposition would hardly
secure them such patronage if they had to
20 before the sturdy people for it, but it
serves them profitable end, since their
only patrons are those country publishers
If prostituted principles, who are willing
o deal out the product of such hash mills
1t second hand. What is it that PEG pie
axe paper for; PARTLY for its news,
partly for its views, and partly for its adj
isements. And yet the news of these
'insides" is always week or more older
han that of legitimate papers their views
ire those of men who publicly proclaim
hat they ride three horses in different d.
ections at the same time, and their ad-
refreshments are of necessity all foreign
romwhere the paper purports to issue.
Therefore, so far as one entire half of
he paper is concerned. it falls far below
he standard of interest which freshness
md nearness always give, and as for the
lalf, it is what might be expected from
men who find it impossible to make
Shole newspaper, and are therefore will
ne not only to deceive their patrons but
o disgrace the profession, which has al
Ways been accredited with some principles
md some brains, by going into the market
o hawk about other peoples wares. So
ar as my knowledge goes, not single
newspaper establishment in the country
# any recognized standing and influence
las adopted the system, and in a great
majority of cases the papers are dated at
title villages where in fact they are not