The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1877-02-09
A PLEA FOR THE PRINTER.

cents per so uare, or fraction thereof for the
each subsequent Insertion; one square to |
consist of the space of one hundred words |
solid matter. II such newspaper refuses to |
publish at the rate herein specified the adj |
vertisements shall be published in the
manner above provided for in cases where
Of Prmsinn Biv ,,ossed Iv Woasse Bra .a Of
Nichols Legislature.
. Among the impossibilit;es with
which every new legislature has to
struggle is that of refusing to enact a
new printing law. No matter what
measures of general reform were an
nounced and advocated in the canvass
OF votes-no matter what are consider
ed the paramount interests of the peo-
ple;-the new member of the General
Assembly, so soon as he reaches the
dignity OF ga seat" and il able to draw
his pay and static merry, considers it his
first duty to lay himself out on the sub
ject of printing. He may, in his day,
have climbed Is corn-hill and thought
it the rugged tabled hill of fame; he may
have devoted his talents to the in tricate
doctrinal precepts Of tho Bible, or the
abstruse theories of a transcendentai
phiiosophy--driven a locomotive, or roll
ed wheel-barrow; it is all the same
the great ambition he possesses, as Il
legislator, is, to introduce printing
bill, reducing the printers wages. And
then, as showing the vanity of this leg
islator, his next highest ambition is
to get the printer to publish his bill,
with the announcement, in large CAPT.
tai, that the Hon. Mr.. Jones is the
author!
If there be one class of men more
than. another, who enjoy the distinc-
ton Of delicate attentions from
the legislator it is the newspaper
man. AS a candidate, the legislator
never finds himself properly "beforc
the people'' and at ease, until he has
wormed out of sour paper" half-a-
dozen good notices. He is only half
way satisfied when the paper tells its
readers that Mr.. Jones is good citizen
and will make good legislator. He
meets the editor, looks coolly and rather
oftish, AS much rs to say, You have not
done your party's choice Justice, sir!
Threupon, the editor sharpens his pen
Gil and editorial claws, and makes the
individual Il prince royal, a benefactor,
everybody's uncle; in short the ssonlicst''
man who could possibly be carried on
the peoples shoulders. Then follows
Mr.. jones approval, bestowed with an
air of the most gracious condescension.
That editor then feels proud, slaps him
self Oh the back and rushes to the near
est grocery store and lsvishly invests
hfty-cents in peck of meal.
The next we hear of the Hon. Mr..
Jones he is elected to the legislature,
because tho people followed that edi-
tors advice. Mr.. Jones shuts himself
up. He communes with himself, and
asks, who am (? In solving this great
question, he winters the period inter-
vcning between his elect ion ard the
time for the General Assembly to meet,
when he thaws out, and sets forth tor
the Capital. He arrives there, and ut
once suspects that ali eyes are turned
upon him. He is overwhelmed by
popular curiosity wants to conceal
AAoAA sHo oui tH4O1iS tIsiSt ie Is tHS
Veritable Mr.. Jones just arrived, and
takes the dark allies that he may tr,,-
vel iacoy. He desires to revcl in the
luxury of possessing his secretalonc,
OCCASIONALLY pinching himself, or stop
ping before n shop mirror, to prove his
identity to himself.
Mr.. Jones's subsequent movements,
until he is clothed with power to adj
dress the chair, need not he detailed
his search for cheap boarding houses,
where the best free lunch is kept, who
will tell him how to vote and where
certain well-known streets are, passing
into history unwritten we present him
in his second great act, that of introduce
ing GA Bill to kill off Newspapers"
It is just now that our hero appears
as great tragediau, rivaling all the
histrionic characters of the age. The
sentiment of Byron in his epitaph on
his Newfoundland dog recurs TO our
hero's powerful mind--I never had but
one friend, and here he lies! He has
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