Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1876-03-21

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that the services Of - editor wers|
worth tot pndl ia 40 ~ ~ ~
which Va truc. Alexander Dumas
and Victor Hugo HAYS been known Is
receive three dollars per line for =
many articles - they chose to write.
Whitelaw Reid. Of the Tribune, gets
ten thousand dollars per year; 50 does
the leading man on. the Herald; while
Manton Marble, Of the World, Is sal
aried at eight thousand. First-clsss
talent on the great newspapers Of the
Eastern cities command from Eve ten
thousand dollars. On the other hand
we have known brilliant men Of tim
Grating habits to run country weeklies
for months for their grub and whisky.
In this country, as elsewhere . man
leaving an adopted profession to
engage IN journalism. and devotes his
whole time and talents in the interest
Of it, expects. and should receive,
the same compensation that he re-
ceived in the avocation that he has
cast aside-whether it be one hundred
or one thousand dollars per month.
Mr.. w. j. Hill, of the Avalanche, by
deposition stated that he paid Major
Hay, his assistant editor. two hundred
dollars per month. in gold coin. This
shows that Hay receives about the
same salary that is paid the managing
editors on the larger dailies Of Califor.
nia. If not correct in this, let tho
Avalanche set us aright) Aud we say
that the labor performed by Maj. Hay
is well worth that sum.
JAS S. Reynolds. Esq, during the
last two years Of his ownership of the
Salesman. paid Judge G.. Barbour
thirty dollars per week for editorial
services. The paper was then issued
three times week. as it now il, and
Barbour did all the writing and edit
ing.
Writer'S seldom get f.r their liter
AIRY labor what it is really worth.
Circumstances have q great deal to do
witt, the matter Of compensation for
editorial duty. For Instance: Should
We wish to employ Judge Alanson
Smith to toss of only limited number
Of his scintillating and immortal sen.
fences per week. We would not dare
approach him with M offer one silver
short Of nincty.cight thousand dollars
per month, coin Of the reala. at that
Because he knows that VIC know he
would I've worth that salary.
Judge kelly's reply under oath Of
two hundred dollars per month" was
somewhat vague. but it implied that his
services were wurth that amount, and
that lie paid his two valuable assist
ants-thc parties who do the writing
leach the Gum of fifty dollars per
week Cor their labor. And now that
he is not ia the witness box we would
most respectfully ask why it is that If
his own work is worth two hundred
dollars per month, and his two assist
ants are paid each the same sum per
month-thc price that editors receive
on first-class dailics-hc does not pay
more attention to the mechanical de-
partment If his newspaper; and that
in place Of hiring botch .''blscksmiths"
At China wages. turning of murdered
work. no does not employ skilled labor
aud pay for it ct least as much a. is
given in Oregon. and turn OF dsont
work. Il il better TO pay two good
printers the price Of four botches and
have the work well done, than It is to
rive four acyubs the same amount and
have. it butchcred. The same rule