The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-27
Editors and their Critics.

1t is remarkable how many individuals
there are in the world who appear to think
that they are specially created for newspa-
per editors. A few of them occasionally
find their way into the profession, but the
majority are mere outsiders, lockers on,
who assume to crlticise and not unfrequent-
ly direct those whose daily duty it is to
cater to the wants and tastes of the public
through the columns of newspapers. The
natural born editors, as they imagine them
selves to be, require only months trial on
the tripod of daily paper TO satisfy them
that their estimate of editorial duties and
responsibilities are lightly made 1t is
comparatively easy matter for man when
he is in proper mood to sit down and at
his leisure inditc an article upon some ia
vorite topic. He writes it with case, and
peruses and rcpuruses it scrutinizingly be-
fore he sends 1t to press. 1t appears next
morning, and he smiles complacently as he
reads his effusion in print. His natural re-
mark is, how easy matter it is to edit a
newspaper. But let the same individual
day IN and day out, week after week, and
month after month be compelled to furn-
ish his quota to a daily paper, and we
greatly mistake, or he will find very wide
difference between the penning of single
article when in propitious mood, and the
unending wearying task of q regular edi-
tor. Let these natural born editors re-
member, too, that daily paper is expected
to make it's appearance as punctually at
the doors of its patrons as bank officers
expect notes to be paid on the day they
mature. A failure to meet either engage
ment is ruin. There is not more exact
ing individual in the world than the regu-
lar newspaper reader. A half hours de-
Iuvy In, rsxyol ~f &t,o l.
of the severest annoyance to him. What
pity it is that he does not know more of
the trials, perplexities, and anxieties of
newspaper editor. If he did, there would
be more forbearance and less impotence.
There is no other profession but enjoys
immunity from observations as to its modes.
The preacher writes in the privacy of his
study, and can concoct platitudes or pad
out plagiarisms that would be the ruin of
the editor and reporter. The lawyer con-
suits his client and organizes campaign in
private, bringing into court only as much
as makes for his cause and against the
cause of his adversary. The doctor plies
his notions and launches in his lancet in
secret. If the patient recover, it may be
the medicine or it may be in spite of it; if
no die it may be pills of Providence, the
physician is scathless. None of these come
to light that their deeds may be reproved.
Moreover, the work of the press is con.
tinuous, as well as constantly public. There
is no peace in our war; There is no rest
for the weary. Space is no more annihi-
lated by telegraph than time by journalism.
The evening and the morning are not mere
ly the first day, but all the seven. Night
is annihilated as to all its quantities of re-
pose. Every minute of every hour of the
twenty-four is occupied by some workers
doing some work that shows itself in the
newspaper of the day and afternoon. Rep
etition is as impossible as rest. Facts are
ever new. Comments must be as fresh as
facts, and the edition is a remorseless giant
that eats up all the seconds The making
OF newspaper is perpetual motion in a
thousand fields. In such work, demand
ing ceaseless effort, permitting no pause,
exacting eternal and ever varying exercises
it is impossible for wheat to be unnixed of
chaff, for accuracy not to be impaired by
be DONE