The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-05-12
Editorial. Excursions.

While the editorial buzZards are on
the wing, and are seeming the trail of a
free excursion to gather up journalistic
glory the real toilers of the field remain
at home and solicit job work and sub
scriptioDs to furnish food and flannel
for the children
There is an astonishingly large per-
centage of solid truth in the foregoing
few lines from an unidentified exchange.
As general thing, when an editorial
excursion, or raid, is made on the unfor-
tunate inhabitants of neighboring
State, the editor himself, for the reasons
so concisely given above, is unable to
march Ill the procession, but he enjoys
the excursion all the same. In fact, the
editor who stays at home derives a great
leal more solid comfort from the excur-
sion than the editor who goes along with
the mob. This may sound strange, but
it is the truth, the whole truth, and we
can prove it. We assert that the editor
who stays at home, melding public opin-
ion, and otherwise providing for his
family, extracts more real enjoyment out
If an excursion than the editor who buns
ver the country with the alleged excur-
sionists, guzzling free, beer, smoking free
cigars, eating free meals, and having a
free and easy time OF it generally. We
can prove what we say.
Every editorial sanctum-and by the
way there are no sanctums but editorial
sanctums-every editorial sanctum in
the United States is infested by So
called friend of the paper. He is COM
bination of the exchange fend and the
confidential bore. Every morning he
drops in, hangs his feet up on the table
where the exchanges are, and after he
has stored his mind with useful newspa-
| per lore, he tells the editor, confident
tally, that his last weeks paper was very
poor; that some patrons of the paper
think it was the poorest paper the editor
has gotten out yet, and then he proceeds
to inform the editor how the defect can
be remedied. He winds up his candid
| criticism by telling the editor that he
would not talk to him that way if he was
not friend to the paper There are
some kidd of bores that can be gotten
rid of, but the candid friend of the pa-
per cannot be shaken off any more than
f he was seed tick.
Now, when the editorial excursion
mania becomes epidemic, the editor
takes the friend of the paper aside, and
says 81 have personal favor to ask
| # you. You need a rest You are
overworked. do not care to go on this
editorial excursion, but I will give you
my ticket, and you go along, and repre-
sent the paper. The eyes of the COM
bined exchange fiend, confidential bore,
and candid friend of the paper, fairly
sparkle with delight He promises, with
tears in his eyes, to faithfully represent
The paper on the excursion, and he keeps
his promise with fidelity that excites
| admiration, or rather awe, whenever he
has an opportunity to eat or drink.
During his absence, the real editor at
home, IN his sanctum. enjoys most re-
freshing season of unalloyed bliss. His
| exchanges are never interfered with, and
| he is not reminded that his editorials are
becoming poorer and poorer every issue.
It will be admitted that, by staying at
home, the editor has enjoyed the excur-
sion much more than if he had actually
| accompanied the raiders, because they
| the raiders, or excursionists, are nearly
all substitutes, similar to the one we
have described. Two-t thirds of the ed
itors have sent the sanctum bore to rep
resent them, hence, if the editor in ques-
ton had gone on the excursion, he
would have been in the company, day
and night, of thirty or forty of the most
Objectionable deadbeats in the State.
Looked at from this standpoint, edito-
rial excursions are a perfect godsend to
the editors, as it enables them to get rid,
temporarily at least, of the Objectionable
deyil-fsh that infest almost every sane
tum, and who saps the humor and en-
ergy out of some of the best and bright
est intellects of the press. Texas SIT
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