Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-03
Can't Please Everybody.

We have been in the newspaper bus
mess long enough to understand some
thing of the ups and downs of IA coun-
try elitor's life, and to also learn some
thing of the different characters with
whom he has to deal; but there are
some people-that is, some kinds of
people-who are as much of an enigma
to the ordinary editor as he seems to be
to them. They seem to think that he
always has plenty of funds and never
needs pay for anything, or if he needs
| it at all he can afford to wait until after
obligations to all others are discharged.
From what source they suppose his in
come 10 be derived we can not imagine.
Perhaps they think he can print green
| backs as easily as he can newspapers,
and always keeps himself supple d..
We have had some painful. as well as
| some very amusing, experiences in our
| endeayors to furnish the kind of a pa
per which we deem our duty to furn-
| ish. We take no pleasure in offending
any weIl-meaniDg person, who may
differ with us on any subject: but, un-
| fortunately, we have never been able
to present our views on any suject, Oh
which opinions greatly differ, without
making somebody mad, and receiving
a notice to 'stop my paper" We have
lost some of our oldest and mOst-es-
teemed friends, persons whose friend
h in Il jcto h aI a
could count on under all circumstances
which were likely to arise in the life of
an ordinary person. There are some
good people, who will agree with the
the most important topics which at
tract public attention, and will enjoy
and applaud his bitterest invectives
against those of opposing creeds; but
who will take issue with him on the
tenth subject, and if he is not remark
ably careful as to how he handles 1t,
will quit his paper as something too
vile to have about the house. Every
citizen of ordinary intelligence wants
at least one country paper, and when
they have three to choose from it is not
to be wondered at that some will
change from one to another, in order to
get the one which will more nearly re-
fleet their sentiments-politic ically or on
other subjects; but those who make
such changes are often disappointed.
A few examples will illustrate: One
very estimable old gentleman gave us
his reasons for quitting the Jefferson
Democrat and taking the MirroT, that
"the Mirror had taken such a decided
stand in favor of Prohibition" How
sadly he must have felt shortly after
ward, when the Local Option question
came up, to find the mirror taking
such "a strong stand against prohibi-
ton. Later on some of the strCtest
church members quit both, the Demo-
crat and Nirror, because they did not
advocate measures which the church.
es were demanding, and chose the
Vdtchnzan as the only paper in the
county deserving of their support. One
can imagine the painful feelings they
experienced few weeks ago, when the
principal editorial in that paper was in
advocacy of dancing school. We do
not expect to ever agree with all good
people on all subjects, but we try to be
right on erything; and if they will
stick to US, we believe, they will find
that in the long run we average up
pretty we'll, and further than this we
do not aspire to.-H5ilsbOrO Democrat.