Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-10-26
GENTLE reader, did it ever occu,

to you that the logic, pith and point
OF the arguments of one who radically
disagrees with you on any subject.
is "dry rot while the dull driveI Of
one who stands on your platform is a |
string OF gems, and music in your
ear. No one understands this fact
better than newspaper man, and the
fact is always strongly emphasized |
during a political campaign. With
the party whose platform, principles
and candidates he supports is daisy,
with q sharp-edged, keen-cutting,
razor-bladed literary genius; he fires
heavy volleys from the howitzer Of
truth, and the pure metal of right
principles belches forth melodious
music as the hot shot Is poured into
the works of the enemy; he is bright,
logical, truthful, and pushes a yigor-
GUS pencil; in short he is ssring- tailed
peeler" generally. But with the op-
position he is lineal descendant of
the long cared beast that Baalam
rode, on the one side, and of Ananias
on the other, and with the opposition
his bright gems are rested on the
desert air; he is liar of the first
magnitude, and sheep thief, wheth-
er he ever stole sheep or not. They
know that if he never stole one, or
more, it is because the opportunity
never presented itself. With the
language of an old author, they will
heartily agree, in applying it to the
aforesaid diminutive editorial speci-
men: The quotation runs something
| like this: 'Ten thousand such brains
could swim in single drop of brandy,
and have more sea room than a tad
pole in Lake Superior" In politics,
if newspaper is for you, the editor
is bright, splendid fellow; hut if
against you, he is scrub and cross
between an idiot and knave. A
newspaper man is measured, to a
great extent, with but few exceptions
by the parties he sustains and oppos-
es, from personal standpoint, the
latter looking at him through the
dark clouded glass of prejudice oi
through the object-diminishing enc
of the telescope, and the former gaz
es at him through gorgeously coloret
glass and the magnifying end of the
telescope. A newspaper may say
many good things of a public man
but with one little sentence that ma,
be used thereafter that can by an,
$ possibility be contorted into th'
, slightest uncomplimentary shape, a
the good things before said will b.
wiped from memory's slate by tn
. hand of iagratitude, and the uncon
plimentary sentence will be deepl
engraved thereon by the strong han
of animosity, and there It will sta,
: That mans former opinions of tt
If good qualities of the pencil push'
e will vanish, and clouded prelude
Il will come to the front. Such is hi
man nature to a great extent, and II
newspaper men, more than men
,e any other profession, are the targe
k, for this particular phase OF hum'
y. weakness. His experience teach
H. him that be must, in the nature OF +
y, profession, continue to meet with SUI
unpleasant experiences, but he NEE
them as philosophically as posslbI
r and like Davy Crockett, when
Is thinks he is right, he goes ahead
r. though, like all humanity, he tr
~ quently errs, and his hits are new
" remembered like his misses, by t
:" reading public.
at A, S. ANDERSON, a Mormon
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