The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1874-08-27

M. Cnarin, who baH 10" eighteen
years done faithful and fearless edi-
tor al work on the Marshall Coanty
Times, aDd made IT one Of the best
loca, papers in the State, and at the
same time one Of the best paying pa
pers, lie becoming tired of his thank
less work, and thinks Of giving up
his home field. lie has built up one
of the largest country newspaper of
fees in Iowa; the Times has cir
culation aud an influence such as few
village journals dare aspire to. Ills
reputation as an honest and able edl
tor il second TO that Of no man IN
Iowa. The Times under his man
agement, has survived almost a dOz-
en- competitors IN Marshalltown.
Chaplin has done more than any 9th
er man to build up his town and give
it fame as one OF the most prosperous
aud enterDrislng of IOwa's second
rate cities. From his editOria. an
nouncing that he has in cOntempla-
ton a removal to broader field, we
copy the following extracts, because
they tell some plain truths-as true
here as in Marshalltewn, and pertin.
ent in illustrating the experience OF
many an editor:
"The editor is the target against
which the dart of the enemy IL ever
aimed, he is abused for not doing
this or for doing that, he is condemn
ed on all hands his office is full OF
the missiles OF the foe aimed at his
life, he is never commended when
he does a good act neither is it re-
membered to his credit ; he and his
paper are the grand omnibus that IL
TO carry every business man through
safely, every measure in which the
public is interested, every benevo.
lent object he is to be judge,
preacher, deacon, and jury, aud do
all this vast work like a missionary
without pay or the thought of re.
ward. This man must be made
great, that man abused, this abuse
corrected, and he is TO do all and for
reward receive only abuse and ours
es. Nobody thinks of paying him,
and even have the cheek TO ask him
to do this job or that job without
pay because the public is interested
he is to foot all the public's bills, he
must advocate temperance and re-
ligion and do more than all the lee
turers and preachers combined or he
is gone for. No thanks for this, but
if he reports a horse race they get
after him with a resolution OF CEN
sure. 1t is only an editor they afe
tearing to pieces, snd be has 40 hd-
man feelings that can be wounded.
What wonder .1a. the tired editor,
often working pas. midnight to give
his readers a readable parer, occa-
sionally turns on his enemies and
fays them without mercy. The
only wonder is he does not do 1t
oftener. Neither is it any wonder
tha at he ret:ros from the chair editor
ial occasionally in disgust and re
solves he will never occupy 1t again.
In larger field there is less OF this
small kind of warfare and more to
encourage the faithful editor. We
have exposed the corruptions and
rings that are rio.ing On the peoples
earnings, and are abused and deiid-
ed By them, while the people whose
interest we have champloned read
the exposures, pass them by without
thought or credence, denounclng
them as Chapin's lies, and no fruit
but that which ia bitter is the result.
What wonder that we should tire OF
this pionee. missionary work that
has no reward bat distrTst and
abuse. We are like the missionary
who wor@ed faithfully to convert a
tribe of Indians, and after ten years
wasted and not having converted
any, and having lost his scalp, aban-
doned the field in disgust, we have
sickened of the work conscientiously
engaged in of uncoyering the abuses
and frauds that be, aud while they
may be termed "Chspin's lies," we
have aimed 10 state the exact truth
and will add that we have never pub.
lished anything editorial that we
did not have the best reasons for be-
lieving TO be true, and which have
almost universally proven to be such.
To proclaim truths and have them
pronounced lies, without any effort
to prove them such, is dishearten-
ing indeed An editor cannot live
on such food, and yet ours is but an
illustration Of the experience of 9th
ers. If we could publish "good
Lord and good Devil" paper we pre-
sumo the task would be less irksome,
but we must print facts though they
hurt and are disbelieyed."