The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-02-11

Editorial dead Heads" |
From the Baltimore Gazette.
There is not, we are certain, q |
journalist in the country-we do |
not mean the men who call them
selves journalists, but those who
are really and sincerely devoted to
their profession, who follows it not
because of the political or other pre-
ferment it may bring, but because
Of it's usefulness and its opportunity
to do good-who is not heartily
ashamed of the performances of the
so-called Indiana Editorial Associa-
ton, which visited Washington,
Philadelphia and New York q few
days ago. The New York World
administered sharp and deserved
rebuke to these persons and we are
glad to see that the more respecta-
BILE of our contemporaries cordially
endorse all that it has said, and even
60 farther in their condemnation of
the Indiana editorial brigands who
have been raiding upon railroad
companies, hotels and other semi
public institutions for the last four
or five weeks. Performances of this
character are against all the ethics
of journalism, and ought to be con-
demned by every man who has the
honor Of the profession at heart.
The Boston Post has some Just and
!; sensible remarks on this subject,
which We reproduce in the hope of
showing the thinking public the
: estimation in which editorial tramps
Of this description are held. 1t says:
1.-THE real journalist, or editor as
! some insist, is personally about the
least known of all living individuals
who WELD an equal amount of in
fluence or perform an equal amount
of work. The preacher appears
weekly to the public in the sacred
. desk; the physician visits his pa
r tients daily and talks with them
+ the lawyer harangues juries and
pleads with judges; the Journalist
alone is unseen and popularity IN
a known. He is contept to see thu
silent but effective operation of hi
influence. 1t is his journal thai
8 speaks for him. He would as sool
b think Of prancing about the countr!
r and exhibiting himself to the public
!" in different cities as he would o
K standing at the corners and hawk
l. ing his own sheet. He would mucl
a sooner perform under Barnum a
# the Centennial them perch himsel
IS in the gallery of the United State
y Senate for exhibition. He is no
}, in the habit of wearing a chalke'
b hat, sleeping in free beds at hotels
n promising puffs for his rations, Q
d joining a travelling troupe Of me-
II with flying hair, or young w0me
e with flowing feathers. His life
n one of work, and not Of excursion,
y When he goes forth to inhale tn
n fresh air and bask in the sunshin
ofthe outer world, no one is grea,
or stranger than he, and the las
II subject you can induce him to tai
a, about is a newspaper. This troo
le of Hoosier editors is a party tina
le has been organized to see the coul
h try and feast on its products will
T. out having to expend a dollar"
N Let us leave all this kind of bu'
4, mess to congresses and town coul
j, ellis. Editors, as editors, have n
or more rights than people in othe
y persuits of life-doctors, lawyers q
Dr. merchants. Let us mark the Gel
tennary of American republica
journalism by reform in this re-
10 pect.
~ We endorse the above articl
d. from beginning to end. The sent
10 ments therein contained are our,
\, word for word; and an editor who
TO not willing to live up to them, is
or disgrace to the fraternity.
40 The latter clause of articles IL
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