Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1880-10-12
BELITTLING THE PROFESSION.

The new editor of the Eran,iner writes:
In endeAvoring to elevate the status Of other
writer's we shall be promoting our own. We
are persuaded that the persistent bellittling
of each other has done more to lessen the Pc
sitisn and influence of journalists than all
other combinations put together. 1t has re-
duced the Money value of writer's labor; it
has too often led the public to think Of them
a. they speak Of each other it has lessened
the influence Of the press, has often driven
good men cut of the profession, and has thus
lowered tho average standard of press writing.
Exactly the reverse Of this is true. Editors
really belittle each other by system Of
nauseating puffery Men who really have no bus.
mess in the profession are induced to follow
it by seeing every now and then ssme laud-
atory notice of their Indifferent efforts. The
moment man becomes regularly attached to
a newspaper, that moment he becomes tar
day by hir contemporaries in the same town
or county, but the moment he goes abroad
every movement becomes q subject for laud-
atery notice. The editorial profession has
become a grand mutual admiration society,
and the good, bad and Indifferent are slob.
bered over alike. If Smith, Of the Morning
Slush, arrives in town he is alluded to as "sne
of the ablest journalists of the State" when
in reality he1may be the very embodiment Of
ignorance and incapacity. He is paraded as
"an honorable man and q perfect gentleman, %
when in reality he is low bred beor and q
dead beat Of the first water, and the writer Of
the fulsomejpuf knows it better than anyone,
but writes it simply because he sees in the
dim future the possibility of an opportunity
occurring when the lie he writes will be ap.
Piled to himself. 1t is just this sort of en-
enlargement that keeps notorious frauds in
the profession and before the public. People
Who know the mon a. hsmbugs and read
newspaper notices of them in which they are
called mature IS noblemen, naturally acquire a
contempt for the profession which praises, toll
crates and fosters them. If journalism has
reached point where the public no longer
respects it the press can blame nobody but
itself for the accurate assay made of it, and if
it ever proposes to be respected it must itself
eliminate the frauds ia its own ranks.
An AVERAGE CAMPAIGN LIE.-When Gar.
field was Chairman of a Congressional Com
mittee which was to vote an appropriation for
street paving, Garfield went before the Com
mittee and got So 900 for advocating the De
Golyer pavsment.--Kansas Herald
The above is fair sample of the lies circu-
lated by the Democratic papers regarding
Garfield and the De Golyer pavement, In the
first place there was never q cent appropriated
by Congress for the De Golyer, or any other
pavement laid in the City of Washington and
Garfield was never chairman of any such
committee. The money for the De Golyer
pavement was appropriated by Board Of
Commissioners representing the District OF
Columbia. The attorney hired by the De
Gellyer company to exhibit their pavement
to the Beard and show its strong points, was
taken sick at the time and telegraphed to
Garfield to 60 before the Committee and rep
resent him. Garfield did SO, and the pave
ment was SO far superior to any other before
the board that it was adopted. Several weeks
afterwards, Garfield received letter from the
attorney containing check for 5000 it be-
ing half of the fee he had received. Garfield
did his friends work as simple matter of
friendship. and his friend was magnanimous
enough to divide his fee with him. This is
all there is in the De Golyer business about
which the Democratic press knowing nothing
raises such hue and cry. The records show
the case exactly as it was, and the simple fact
that the appropriation was made by the Dis
trict of Columbia and not by Congress, takes