Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-15

multiply whichever you please to call it),
each share by five, so as to bring them
within the reach OF the small operators"
Meaning thereby, suppose" said the
Captain, "the BARRIERS and the servant
gills and the rest of the small fry who want
to gambler"
Well, 1 suppose that is about it, said
Dawlish. Not that think that the poor
who go into those things are a bit better
than the rich"
Yes, they are all gamblers alike" said
Jack, Sc and | have no sympathy to waste
on any of them. No man, whether he be
rich or poor, can be honest when once he
gets the gambling faint in his blood.
How comes it, Mr.. Holmes, that you
manage to keep clear of speculation in
stocks, living as you do, in the midst of
it ?" asked the Captain, curiously, for he
was surprised that the specimen under in
spection did not have horns and tail as
well as fangs.
"Well, replied Jack, 81 have no money
to begin with, and l don't want to borrow
or steal it, and, then, l love journalism too
well tc care for anything else"
"And yet, said the Captain, there is
nothing worse paid than newspaper work,
considering the wear and tear"
''That is true enough, said Jack, "and
yet 1t is, or it may be made the noblest
work a man can do 1t is the modern pull
pit, and it is something to be able to tell
the truth, as you know and feel it, in this
noble English language which has grown
and strengthened on the life-blood of the
greatest poets the world has ever known"
N,-l ~
Dawlish.
50 Oh, sir, your pardon. 1 owe you a
thousand pounds, cried Jack. No, you
are right. This is not what journalism is,
but what it might be. Mr.. Scrawley can
tell you what it really is. y
My idea" said Mr.. Scrawley, thus
appealed to, {" of successful journalist,
is a man who can get shot at without get
ting hit. Nothing pays better as an adj
vertisement except perhaps a libel suit. j
"Oh, yes" said Jack, you grow fat
on carbon, and you seem to like the diet. y
" Well" apologized Mr.. Scrawley. ga
man must live, and you can't deny but
what we are educating the people" mind
tul OF his own early struggles.
81 think" said Jack, L" that you are
poisoning the language of the people with
your paraphrases and your fine writing.
{" 1 have always heard" said Mr..
/ Scrawley, I" that Americans speak better
English than the English themselves.
dramatically, perhaps. But what
you gain in grammar you lose in idiom and
force Your talk is inflated with newspa'
per wind"
''Well, said Mr.. Scrawley, driven tc
his last stronghold, 1--WE are an exact
photograph of the times, and we don't pro.
TESS to be one jot better or worse than the
people we live among"
'That is, you say to the public you
are another, said Jack.
81 think" suggested the Captain,
&C. that in photographing the times, as you
call it, you put our worst side in the fore.
ground. The account of a ball or murder
is given more prominence than the inven
ton of sewing machine.
THE suferings and crimes Of poor hu,
mainly are always interesting, said Jack,
90 And then, it pays, meekly suggested
MIR. Scrawley. 1T is all very well fo1
you, gentlemen, who never tried it, to FIND
fault, and when we come 10 run a daily
paper for amusement, we will take every
ones advice but until then We must make
a living the best way we can.
And We that are filthy, be ye filthy
still, quoted Jack Holmes.
TO be continued