Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1889-05-21

LANCASTER, PA, MAY 81, 1889.


The Philadelphia Inquirer prints re-
epOnses Il has received from newspaper
editors, In the several counties Of the
state, whom II asked for their estimates
of the prohibition vote In June. II fig
ures, n q result Of the answers, major
4 3ty of 10000 against prohibition without
taking any account Of Philadelphia.
The Kn9mrcr's results, however, do
not interest us just now so much ms the
process through which IL reaches
them. In pursuit of its duty as
an enterprising journal il went In
eearch of the news; which was
all right but II is not 40 clear that II
was right to ask the newspaper editors
Of the state to make their contributory
guess towards the inquiries for the salts
facti on of its readers. There used TO be
an odd saying that what is worth
asking for Is worth paying for
the modern enterprising metropolitan
editor seems not to have come across the
Idea. Sometimes he does not even offer
postage stamp for a return reply from
the countryman whom he thinks that
! he honors with a solicitation for his
opinion. Doubtless the game pays
and the country editors respond
else il would not be played,
There are so many people in this world
who like to see their opinions asked and
printed that the newspaper anger
fetches blood nearly every time il is
brought out. This feeling of man is the
base of the business of the interviewer.
When any one stops calmly to consider
/. the right and the wrong of the interview
ing business, he will not fail to see that
an imposition is practiccd upon the man
who is asked to stand and deliver his
opinions to newspaper auger, at any
time of day or night and regardless of
bis occupation, even If these opinions are
reported as stated; which does not always
happen. But il is an imposition to
which men seem to take kindly, and
meet politely If not with eagerncss
There are good men i'm this world
Editor Griest, of our town, answered
that an estimate Of the Lancaster vote
would he idle at this stage of the
campaign and Editor Goodlander, of
Clearfield, gave some good advice to
the foolish Inqtiyer saying cannot
answer your question, and in interview
ing never spend much time, but calmly
await results, especially in affairs over
which have no control"
4 There was whole sermon from the good
GOodlander and the inquirer certainly
got the whole worth of it's two cent post
s age stamp. These good mems protest,
against the vanity of asking them 10
cudgel their brains TO guess kow their
fellow citizens were going 10 Vote, will
: nOll off the Inquirey'sbas%as water from
y duck since il m9b.~sits aim, in getting
replies, hm as food but greener editors,
that enablefvsto satisfy the foolish de-
sire of people to read the future.
The wise man may still be good man,
while sending to the right -about people
who impose upon his time without war
rant, He will decline the interviewer
II he does not want to he interviewed as
he does the book peddler or other like
nuisance.
He who wants the opinion of his fcl-
low, to make his journal interesting,
ought to send postal order with the
request especially when he asks editors
to conjecture for his benefit as Brother
Coodlander expresses it, the result of
affairs not under their control.