The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-15
The Happy, Guileless, Peaceful, Genial
Editors.

IHE editors OF lnOlana naO STanU
reunion at Lafayette yesterday, and l
was constrained to stop and join them,
for verify were they not going to open
a key of nails and cut a melon? Hap
ply, innocent, guileless men. these ed
itors. How little they know of the
world and it's sordid cares; how little
they know of its wrangling strifes and
its noisy ways; how little they see of its
currencies; how sublimely, magnificent
ly seldom do they light upon the COM
bination of its safe lock. All! men of
the busy, heartless, money-getting
world, editors have no money. We
have something better. We have calm,
unmoved and unmovable sleeping con-
sciences that you couldn't quicken with
= stroke Of lightning. What a price
less treasure is such a conscience.
Journalism is the profession without
jealousy. l don't believe there is a
profession in the world so free from
jealousy as this. Look at musical peO-
pie. They are the worst in the lot
Music hath charms to sOOthe a savage,
but it has no power to tame the feroci-
ty of people who play and sing and
teach it. An opera company without
black eye is an unheard-of wonder.
All through the opera season the fright
ened air is full of the loud wranglings
of warning tenor and soprano, central
to and basso. Every mail brings to
our ears the crash of another footstool
Christine Nilsson has kicked over. And
a church choir-why, never knew but
one choir that didn't have a chronic
row on it's hands dating back as far as
the Tariff bill, and more complicated
than the Louisiana Investigation. And
that one broke up the first Sunday. One
of the first indications of revival in
the church is when the soprano and
alto get on speaking terms with each
other. And at a musical festival, did
you ever notice how the chorus stood
back and glared at the solo? 1t is
awful. But with us there is none of
that feeling. We love each other, and
when in the course of our political duties
as standard-bearers, we feel con-
strained to call an esteemed contempt
rary measureless liar" he knows
we mean business, and if he is man
who will get mad at little trivial thing
like that, he comes over with club and
mashes us, and that is the end of it.
| We may have occasion to denOunce
him, in the heat and passion of the
conflict, as a "moral hyena, whose
foul and fostering chops drip gall and
aqua forts, a mocker and destroyer OF
the truth, upon whose vicious lips the
dear, pure truth, if ever it could spring
from a heart so blackened and stained
with crime, turns to ashes and bitter
ness before it can be uttered" We
may feel it our duty to call an es
teemed contemporary a "palterine
slave to ring of petty tyrants," "ar
unprincipled scoundrel, whose grow
cling carcass, wallowing in the cess
pool of political corruption, stepped t.
his thievish eyes in abhorrent partisan
infamy, pursues its nefarious traffic t.
the very shadow of the hooking gal
lows it has cheated too long" We &c
mad at these things. Sometimes dread
full mad, awfully mad. But we get owe
it, especially if the other man is tn
When the jealousy of Union Gen
erals was bringing disgrace and defea
on the Union arms in Virginia, tn
newspaper correspondents hung to
gether and carried on the war and VOL
victories and slaughtered people by tn
column, double-leaded BREWER. PEG
pie love us for this unselfishness. Ou
tranquil lives imprint upon our face
the beautiful and tender expression
which people always remember so lon
after they meet an editor, and whic
makes them go home shuddering, t
dream that very night that they met
man who had starved to death, an
had crawled out of his grave to steal
pretzel and couldn't find his way back
We eat well, and we don't care a
whose expense; we dress well, we slice
well, and we drink-well, only tolerable
only tolerable. Burlington HaoOk-Eyt