The weekly Louisianian., 1874-08-22

accepts it; land the plain rule thai
one good turn deserves another il
not in operation, for the editor il
expected to give ten favors where
he gets one-and if he does not re
pay his self-styled patrons in thai
proportion at least, he is accused O
ingratitude. The editor who is mol
in jobs is not out for lack of op'
portunity, for the Press is appealed
to necessarily to participate in some
of the enterprises planned to divid.
the spoil gathered by taxation o.
yielded by unwarrsnted monopoie.
and newspaper influence is equiva,
lent to cash, but the editor who
pays for a share in q job with hi
influence" not only participates in
the swindle, he sells himself into
iservitude and beeomesasIaye Of the
ring. = 81" - i
Take the reformationI of oil,
postal service. It is the true posi-.
ton that the abolition of the
Franking Privilege should mean
that not an ounce of matter shall
pass through the p~ost-ofice without
charge-then, that the charges shall
be according to weight and the dis
lance of the transportation required
so far as those conditions enter into
the cost. = 49,
There have been times and places
where editors found it troublesome
to pay for their share Of the bev-
erages consumed in a social way.
Occasionally even yet it occurs that
hats, fruit and poultry, bottles Of
sparkling drink, suits of clothing,
boxes OF cigars, even jugs Of oily old
copper-distilled Kentucky whisky
(the very Establishment of bribery),
are bestowed upon us as testimoni-
ais Of affections or of the gratitude
that is q lively sense of benefactions
to come. This is q mild phase OF
patronage, but in all its form,
it may be sweet to the
mouth it is bitter to the belly. Per-
haps it is the true way to acknowl-
edge these attentions in those grace
ful paragraphs that you all know SO
we'll how to turn, saying at once
Thank you, and pray do not do SO
my more. +
How far, the Press has failed in
he complete performance of its
we see in the fact that while
here is a "Boss" in every city in the
country there is but one in the PEN
-. "
twenty-five years ago there we're
wo journals issued on this CONT
lent that could be called independ-
at, viz, The Herald and The Ii1b-
me Of New York. They were con-
|ucted by the men Of genius who
ounded them. Each expressed the
of the man who made it.
ames Gordon Bennett was news
IAN. Horace Greeley was a man of
pinioas-ideas, if you please. Ben
ett's paper had the larger circula~
io~n-Greeley's the greater infu-
nca Bennett was not Of any po-
tical party and, despised them all
nd their leaders with them, and
over his own defeats.
was always on higher
round than his party occupied,
as hopeful OF its statesmen, and
with apersonal sorrow, over I
8 discomftqres.. In one sense he |
as q party man, and a believer in {
her men. but he never spared the
ID among his partisans when he i
slieved they betrayed the Gauss Of q
10 people. If the qualities of the a
70 great journals The Heru1d1and +
he Trbune-could have been I
the product would have 4
zen almost the ideal newspaper. il
istiuct, hostile, but associated in Y
'eir location and by their strongly
'ntrasts, they were the only b
mericah journals to be counted c
It of calculations known to be o
ike fearless and unpurchasable. Il
Nv there is no considerable citv ri