Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-25

The audience was small but appreciatsxe..
means that nobody was present except the
n0 aSMin e; - o9 ON
the Audience was nor what Il would have
been. means that nobody would have been
In ne sne sly bern ossE ~
Montgomery shows some crudity and inexpe-
renee, which viii doubtless, disappear With
stick T'3-ir if 's,ss
Finally, "a scandal in high life has been
Drought to our notice, of which We shall have
means business" ff7f-Na - s'.e11 -
Such. my friends, are some of our little sub.
Ter1ngee They are really. evidence of our
perhapel weak goOd-hcartedness; and now we
we VIII look at the other side Of the picture.a
we have regarded and acknowledged the
riailacies." lctsuss now seriously look Mt the
NOT TO obtrude my personality ofensively,
! trust, i think know about all there is to
the Joys and sorrows; the temptations. the
trials; the failures-and. in a small way, the
successes of newspaper life. l. have known
every grade great a and s 81 famous and OBJ
scure--I have worked with them, living, and
nave written up their short and simple annals
illusions: Z s
We are not members of profession. We,
US rule, have not INDUCED in the reading,
the observation, nor do we possess the critical
faculty. the Judgment TO tell infallibly and
unslaed our feilow-men what Is best for them
20 co. The man who has, inside OF an hour,
10 write an advertisement for stray COW,
convince, some blockhcad that an article about
tue emperor of China did not mean him,
make out receipt for subscription, and set
up sale bill, cannot expect to deal out the.
WISDOM OF philosopher with the eloquence
OF an apostle. The most that he can do is to
tell what he believes i'm a straightforward
way, and in a few words; or, IL he has not
time for that, to give what he himself believes
In the language of another. Time, practice
ana good sense tell the editor how to use his
shears, the most useful implement about q
newspaper Office, and the one with which he
can do the most good.
newspaper, else he would not have died with
the reputation for wealth that he did, said.
n sd rms .. some very good things He
sun, ana this Is very true i'm vocation.
We do not originate much-we only circulate.
We are not the sced-wc are the wind that
bears it abroad, so that IL shall spring nm ON
tho hillside and by the stream. We are not
slngcrs-for ourselves we are voiccless aud
harpiess-but we send abroad the songs that
mothers Groom over the cradles which inspire
the sunburnt labOrer at his toll, the warrior
In, mat dread moment when the warning
care not as rule wits or humorists but )
We aud more than can well be estimated 10
the STOCK OF the worlds innocent enjoyment.
n DriSht thing Is said on the coast of the At
iantic, ana we pass il along from paper TO
paper, till the echo OF the first laugh comes
PACK from the Pacific: Every day the vein o.
humor pure and good gold, too, 10 works
Every great paper has its bright paragraphcr
sometimes several OF them and we ogffl the
jokes, some taking one some Dnoty,cr If,5ffl
all are served, and the digestion of twenty or
thirty millions of people has been promoted.
We arc not so good as we could wish; we
don know as much, between you and l. az
we would like to; hut we are not half as
mean as many of our subscribers would like
TO have us. We stand between many a skuik-
ing slanderer and the object of his aversion:
we do not throw the dirty missile he hands u.s.
and he goes away and snys we lack pluck and
independence. We arc pretty bad sometimes,
ham
thank God.
do not need to remind those here present
that the newspapers are not exactly a gold
mine; the editors wife never mistakes her
husband for. Vanderbilt. There are great
many men of my acquaintance who have con-
icmned shemseives to something like poverty
for life, by remaining in the newspaper bush
ness; and they stay in 1t from a sentiment of
loyalty akin to that which holds the
priest at the altar and the soldier TO his
Colors. A bookish and studious boy unable
perhaps to obtain the education he desires
enters printing Office because he wishes to
be where there are so many papers, and once
there he stays there all his lifc animated by
the same enthusiasm which inspired his hoy
hood. lie wishes to be in an Intelligent bust
ness; to know what the world thinks, and all il
does, and so he stays. There Is something mo-
bic and faithful in this, it seems to me.
We do not move the world. We do not shape
alone its opinions; not it's lungs-we
are its voice: we are not its hcnrt-wc are the
instrument that records its pulsations. Tho
world mOves-we do not move il; but we re-
peat, day after day, with Calico, But il docs
move"
when all is said and all that is reasonable il
admitted, the fact remains sure, that i'm spto
of the temptations which surround them, an
enormous majority of editors are for the
| right as against the wrong. for truth as
against falsclood, for freedom as against or
preston, for light as against darkness. IL Is
certain, too, that the editor ia everywhere tho
| first advocate of every public material i'm
prOvcmcnt. 1T Is the editor who insists that
| the little desert of public square shall have
a public well; il is the editor who first shouts
for an iron bridge across the creek; il is the
editor who wakes heaven and earth for the
| first railroad, and IL is the editor who takes
the first free excursion thereon.
In Kansas, the newspaper man is the first
and bravest of pioneers have seen him in
his cottonwood Office, the smoke of the last.
locomotive fifty or an hundred miles behind
him; before him the vast weird wilderness.
knowing no shadow save that of the passing
| cloud; no sound save the low thunder OF the
| moving buffalo, the whirring of the wild-birds
wing. the VOLTS sharp hungry cry, / have
| seen him i'm that rude shanty, the wind
| screaming at him through the countless
| crcvices, and covering with dust the three or
| four pairs of cases. and the wcll-worn hand,
| press, and tho little imposing stone which
| made up the Office, while in one corner of the
| room around the broken stove lived the fam
| lily. ] have seen him amid such surroundings
without society, without exchanges, i'm the
| midst of u scattering population in dug-outs
working away, cheerful and rcsolutc; his own
| in his long primer the first lines of the first
| page Of the story of empire. Heaven bless
| theel thou humble, toiling, unsiing and uTre-
| warded hero. for thou dOst show forth in thy
! daily life the motto of thy State-tOiIing
Through difficulties" that Kansas may climb
unto the stars"
| In ono field we are supreme The world
cannot do without us i'm tho upbuiiding of the
community i'm which we live. a town can no
more grow without newspapers, than IL can
grow without lumber, or bricks, or mortar.
/ III we did not free Kansas. we have made her
what she is. This is no mere idle boast. No
State has ever owed so much to her newspa-
| pcrs. We havt. fought for her; have
| praised her soil. her climate her people; her
almost everything. We have concealed or
absolutely denied her defects. We have
sented rs if il we're a personal insult, every
word said against her.. We may not cOunt
| much in the world mt large, but VIC have been
| a blessing and a power here. -
| Let as, then, estimate ourselves and our
work ut u just standard Let us discard empty
| phrases and professions, which we do not be-
| lieve ourselves. Let us work faithfully I'm the
\ field assigned us. Fame and wealth most eof
| though we cannot govern the world. we may
| help it, though we did not bring liberty INTO
| the world. we may cherish It. We are no
Drawer, or better, or wiser than other men.
| hut we may vet maintain our integrity and do
our work without Boosting and without pre-
| tense.
| And Kansas oh Kansas, fair land of our
labors and our dreams; she demands, and will
| reward al we can do for her IL IL but the
| beginning here. 10! IL is but dawn; and.
| stretching to the horizons verge, the waving,
! dappled, golden harvest shines.
| EkF
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