Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1878-11-14
WHO ARE THE DEADHEADS.

agriculture and Farmer.
WHO ABE THE DEADHEADS.
If editors were not among the most pa
and best natured people that iniablt
the earth they would long ago have expos
ed the charge of deadheadism SO fiippantly
and constantly made against the press. mo
end of carping persons think it a fine thing
to sheer at the editors and reporter VINO,
without paying, 90 to theatres, concerts
operas, miscellaneous shows, banquets ana
the best seats in conventions and legislative
assemblies, 70 getting entirely that Journal
lists 90 to all Of these places in discharge OF
their duties hat one and all OF them would
rather remain at home than go for labor
where their more fortunate fellows repair
for recreation. 1t is quite true tina the
places Of journalists are too frequently
usurped by a set Of chronic, brazen sponges,
who think it praiseworehy to thrust them
selves in seats reserved for the members OF
the press, in order to enjoy themselves free
of cost. This class it is that, by their UNI
seenly behavior, bring disgrace upon the
JOURNALISTIC profession. Men so lost to all
feelings of delicacy as to pass themsel yes OFF
tor what they are not, for the sake OF say
ing a few dollars, cannot be expected to de-
mean themselves like gentlemen. Ii these
same persons were to try to palm themselves
off as doctors or lawyers, they would be
promptly exposed and punished. Ihe
pood-natured editors suffer these real dead
49, ,,.,.o <,n;r M, rlaoaC and dis.
grace them besides.
Nor is the great paying and courteous
public tree from the charge OF deadhead'sm
where newspapers are concerned. Every
other man that subscribes for a newspaper
is possessed with the idea that he becomes
part owner of the journal that is as neces-
sary to him as his daily bread, and when
he obtains at a ludicrusly low price. lie
insists that the editor, whose paper he buys,
must support his ideas on all public ques-
tons; is in duty bound to fight his indlvld-
ual battles; must give free notices OF all en-
terprises in which he is Interested. lhat
the editors nave their capital invested In
their Newspapers; that they are compelled
to work hard to secure a living from them
never occurs to the grand army OF non
Journalistic deadheads, who regard Journals
anL journalist as public institutions tha'
are not ~renunerated by the State, it is true
yet are public property, because they sci
their literary wares at low prices, ootail
free tickets to 60 to light places, when u
them are glaring workshops, and arc obllS
inc and rpod-natured.
The community of deadheads, not satis
) fed with their efforts to force the editors Q
the papers they read to serve them III al
ways at no expense to themselves, unite Il
a chorus of protests against the h'gh pric
. OF papers. These %grunblers cheerfully pa,
!; ten cents for Il cigar, or fifteen cents ior
t draught of whiskey; but profess to regar
5 five cents on a newspaper as an outrage 9
5 on human rights. One cent is enough TOR
newspaper, they say. In their estlmatloi
then, one cigar is equual in value TO re
. newspapers. They may never look at III
d question in this light. but they should 40 $
and also calmly think over the stale ana u
J. inst cry of journalistic deadheadisni,--fH
ter's lireuiaT.