The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1875-06-24
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haae bul lllg most uurcaaouab,s OF us,.
sons eau ts,' Go appreciate tbe fact tbat a
d n1waFaar editor has to lake man,
ihioes fgr granted .u the eouins,loa of
bis columns Especially d. tlls troe of
the local BOWS department nsc Ne
mast take much of bis nevs ou "tbe n, n
snd lt is not strange that he Il sometime.
'put out' on thr home run During
oaf many yosrs of newspaper experience
We have met and talked with numerans
editors, and have set to meet The fret one
who is not dNod no tho conviction that
his local news department is more pe,.
/ picking aud difficult 10 manage than Al
the rest Of bis columns pat together. or
course we alude to editors who DO not
believe In oxen as a quick-trausl motive
/ power. The ambition Of an live news.
I paper men ls to be drst In the Geld with
news aud the editor who Is without this
aim aud purpose, can be best compared
10 the chap who pcrferrcd b,iug buried
alive by his neigbbors, rather than accept
a bushel Of com uushellcd. Tho earliest
/ possible publication Of news. :. The bur.
den which the public Itself places on the
/ shoulders Of an ambitious editor; aud Il
isa burden which that same public are
never willing to tighten II an editor
dsres to present bis readers with what
they are pleased to term old news, he is
dubbed a slow coach. II in printing
hundreds Of news items he makes a half.
dozen mistakes, then ho Is liar and
villain.
If some people would only stop and
| consider that when the Creator scnds
new spaper editors iuto this world of ioy
aud tumult. sunshine and cloud he does
not endow them with ubiquilousness over
other men, we opine Il would 60 a long
way toward giving them more charitable
hearts.
The fact Is and It Is fact that no phil.
osopher can gsinsay it Is morally impos.
sible for a newspaper editor TO "run
down" every item Of news before he
prints II aud rigidly apply the test TO its
accuracy. lie has but one head, two eyes,
two legs, like other mortals. aud like
them there are v0uchsafed to him only
twenty four hours in day. II be hears
a story from a dozen or more different
sources, each substantially agreeing with
the other, the most no can do, in very
| large majority Of cases is to do the best
he can. Oftentimes be is called upon TO
do this barely ten minutes before his
pages 90 to press. If he permits bis paper
to Issue without this news, and a rival
gets II before the next issue, he Is morally
certain to be taken to task by the
generous minded public as being "ioo
slow, and wanting in enterprise. Some
body will be kind enough to charge that
his paper is ian old fogy sheet, and then
''the jig is up" with himl A lawyer, IN
the general routine of Office duties, can
coil himself up in his burrow turn the key
on the inside, pull down books by tho
cord, and take bis time before facing tho
public. But for member of the editorial
profession there is no such oasis, no
such "heaven on earth, as this; for this
some public are more oxaoting IN their
demands upon him than was the stony
hearted Pharaoh with the unfortunate
children of Israel in the line Of brick.mak-
ing,
And 70, whenever we hear people ber-
ating a newspaper because IT. editor may
have shown the weakness Of pure human
nature By an error Of judgement--by max
ing a mistake, II you please, we always
feel like telling them the story OF tho
young and dinident clergyman, who,
amid much anxiety aud many embarrass-
ments, had fitted himself for the pulpit.
One Sunday, while laboring hard to do
himself, and his subject, justice, lac de-
tected halfsneering expression on tho
| faces Of bis two deacous, as much as TO
say--"lf you cant do better fhan that,
you had better stop" Enduring this un-
til "forbearauce ceased 10 be virtue, ,nbe
stopped short with, "'Bretheren, | am do.
ing the host can; II any Of you think
you can do any better, you are at perfect
liberty 10 come up here aud try It," And
70 we, too, say TO those unetious iudivid-
ual., who never make d mistake Ia their
lives, and who think IL nothing bat fan
10 edit a newspaper; aud that an editor
has no business TO ever commit an error
Come up here and try II yourselves,
aud then you'i know more about it,
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