The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1874-07-02
Editors Besieged and Captured.

The editors of Iowa got together last
week for a good time. For a year they
had been digging away at their work, and
when the season for their annual c0nyen-
ton came round they dropped pencils,
and paste-pOts, and scissors, and scamp
cred away like flock of boys from Il
country schOOl-hOuse. They went to
Clinton, anticipating heaps of fun and
very little business. Having met, slapped
each other on the back, examined the
new crusade cordial" and laughed in
innocent glee at the high old time before
them, they sat down, like good and sensi-
BILE editors, to transact the business on
hand prior to going deeper into the festiy-
tiles.
Hardly had they got fairly at work
when they were interrupted by commit
tee of ladies. The ladies asked to be
heard, and with that grace and gallantry
so common to the profession, the assem-
blage babe them speak. ThereupOn the
ladies appealed to the craft to come out
fairly and squarely in favor of temper
ance and prohibition. Anappeal was read,
concluding as follows:
"On your shoulders rests greater re-
spOnsibility than can possibly rest upon
the shoulders Ofany other class of citizens.
nC uTOD Vi lin lIldl lItlllBlNN Oh biiC
point of your pen has in it power to ele-
vate humanity to an exalted standard OF
morality or integrity, or to debase and
crush out its last GOd-like feature. In be-
half, therefore, of the ladies of this city,
and of your patrons throughout the State,
we ask frank and ingenious response to
our petition"
Prosecuted and unfortunate guild
Worn and battered veterans Here they
had come to Clinton for relaxation, and
were met by the assertion that on their
shoulders rested a load that would tire a
whole city and sink the Great Eastern
| The convention was positively tatigued
over the information. Each man felt as
| Christian is supposed to have done before
he slipped away from his bundle of sin.
| The Secretary stared wildly when he
heard the words: The drop of ink that
trembles on the point of your pen has IN 1t
| the power to elevate humanity or crush
/ out its GOd-like features" What an awful
responsibility, and what temptation to
! drop the oOOse-quill and turn his talents
/ to saving wood But there was no escape
| of course not. But one thing remained
! to do, and the convention did it sOlennly
and sadly. They resolved that they were
i'll favor of temperance, and would dc
everything in their power to further ltS
advancement. The Dubuque Times says
the petition fell like wet blanket upon
the ASSOCIATION but "1cet" is hardly the
word to use in speaking of so dy sub
/ iect. And there stood the tantaliZing little
women, smiling at the trap in which they
| had caught the association, and watching
the efforts to work out of it. 1t was very
trying situation, but it was managed in
neat and elegant style, as above described
which shows that editors are natural di-
plomatists, and deserve to be sent on for
eign missions whenever their party Is IL
power. The case was serious one ut first
but now that the excursion Is over, ane
the editors are back behind their own lorti
tications, they are laughing immensely at
the attack on them, and cOngratulatlne
themselves on the shrewd way in which
they met the emergency. They propose
to carry out their pledge, though each ono
has his own ideas of the best style of doing
! it.-I1ter-Ocedn.