The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-06-15

rid, and what the prize ring and the
dog pit are to the bollies and rowdios
of our own country-an exhibition in
which the enjoyment OF spectator is in
nice proportion to the lack Of feeling
and excess Of beastliness in the con.
testants-and he::better GLASS Of readers
ofthe weekly hash and re-hash Of abuse
that is still served up in some papers,
. however eagerly they may ,peruse it,
must after all, despise, the low 'iuk-
Finger" as heartily as the Roman no
s~blsm.n diaethe gliator, Is the spac.
ish Don does the prize fighter, and as
everybody docs the bull dog, that toars
II and il torn Tor the public amussme4sag}s
:: The Darwinian man is no more
direct descendant from the Darwininan
monkey than is the modern bully from
the ancient glad,a' or-the ages have
deteriorated instead Of improving the
type. The consinship between Du
Chaillu's gorilla, and the bully is no
I more tlaceable than that between
the bully Of the ring, and be Of the
press; and Darwin's idea of fading the
proof of the relationship 10 the Develop
ment Of the ears, is particularly ap-
plicable to the whole Of his family.
There is no longer any more neoessi.
ty Of arguing the dignity Of our cal.
ling than Of demonstrating tho theory
Of gravitatlou.
The local newspaper is necessity
without which no business can exist
nor any town grow. Our profss.
sion has its place among the de.
mands Of a high civilization, and the
future is full Of promise for its improve.
ment aud elevation. Mechanical in.
vention is every day adding to its re-
sources, AID every improvement in
business or advance in society, mag
ni6es its importance. 1t has its limits
In range and influence, and what pro-
tession has not! Its greatest charm
Is ito local Importance, and he who is
unwilling to be, above all things else
: good local, should transfer his
gsnius to the columns of . great daily.
Ours has, like other callings, its
possibilities Of fame, for any fame is
but the fraition Of rare, and often ao.
sidsntal, opportunities. There have
been those who have even found be.
tween their column rules, the "strait
and narrow way" that leads to honor
and position, but it il not these ex-
oeptious that concern Us 30 much as
tho fact that there is in the ordinary
pursuit Of our profession, with all its
cares and annoyance, (and what pur.
suit has them not), enough to crafty
any reasonable taste or proper ambition.
The every day drudgsry that com.
lneuccs with the soissoring Of the first
stickful Of the first page, and only ends
when the last copy Of tho paper goes
to the post.of6ce, is often monotonous
and generally fatiguing, but who shalt
measure the influence that is started
when the sheet flung fresh from the
press, becomes like another Adam,
living soul. The neoromanoy of the
magician who created another self, is
surpassed every week in your press
room, to the extent Of your subscrip-
ton list. Fortunate is it for him
whose paper leaves the press free from
"mouks or friars" on its face, and
from moral blemjshes in its contents.
A good thought is multiplied into
great blessing, and a fault magni6ed
to sin by the arithmetic of circula-
ton.
It is strange mystery by which
the editor, all unknown to himself, ia
from week to week, the oracle and story
teller, the censor and the boon compan.
ion Of hundreds and thousands of those
Z OF whose very existence he is ignorant.
In this day of missions, so,:e of
them noble and many Of them ridicul.
Gus. who could ask nobler or pleasant
or than that Of the country editor.
His it is to suggest thought to the
most thouhtful intellects, to furnish
topics for the conversation of all ranks
II society. His is the "open sesame"
that makes him welcome every. where;
on the Office desk, on the tradesman's
counter aud the mechanics work
bench, he is equally at home. Around
happy village dresides his solemn edit
orisls, bis spicy locals, or his humor-
Gus selections furnish food for reaeo-
lion, Or cheer the long winter night
with news and merrlmeut. 10 the
comfortable farm house or in the
q shant3 Of the frontier settler, that rocks
In the wild blasts Of our hyporborean
winters, or swslters in the fervid heat
shimmering across the golden wheat
aelds, 10 IL peculiarly welcome, and as
,suzs. . b found about the house, as is
tho inevitable mortgage to be found on,
;jhs farm. And Who Of us can even
guess 10 how many Of his subscribers
EAis .hsst i the encyclopedia of their
dangerous amount oflearning!
Upon you, tho members Of this as
sociatiop, devolve peculiar duties Of 3D.
! itorship ]; not merely local, but, in the
beat sense, abo pioneer editors. With
you rests, in on small degree, the re-
epoDsibility for much OF the future of
{ ! great commonwealth. No monu.
ment will oommemorateyour services;
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