The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-07-12


Pole Tavern ordinance silly in comparison
from time to time beloved its hoarst
thunder and made the air heavy with noise
and burnt powder. That indeed was Z
roaring time enjoyed in a roaring way
What's the matter now? Is the old-timt
feryor losing its grip upon us? Are we be
coming too m~ereenarY, Gas we sometimes
say Of the English, a nation of shop keep
ers), are we. in short, losing our patriotism
or what is the matter? Our own opinion
is that as n people we are not sufficiently
assimiiated. There are too many foreign
ers to those of the manor born. Too much
heterogeneous for the homogeneousness.
and we would suggest to the future Presi-
dent or party looking around for a policy
to take hold of the home policy and give
us a chance at it.
Some folks are wise, some otherwise
and, as the Bible plainly intimates, some
oyerwise. Then again some are ignorant,
and some who are neither wise or ignorant
are innocent or, as it is nowadays put,
'tfresh." Of this latter class are a great
many newspaper readers, men and women
too. who are just as fresh as it is possible
to keep them this warm weather without
ice. Of this variety of readers are those
who wonder why newspapers can't be run
without this aud that kind Of advertise
ments, why, in fact, they can't be run with
out any advertisements at all.
NOW here's that Parker adj says
one, shat tells of cures affected by his
preparation of consumption. catarrh, neu-
ralgia and goodness knows what and all,
when the editor Of that paper knows as we
oil I.ahur AIsa+ Durf~-H - "A E-eL a1aa- fwa,,xl
and his medicines absolutely ~ya1ueless. =;
'Yes, and how about the store ads on
the inside page" chimes in another. 81
counted no less than seven columns in last
weeks paper, telling people where to go
to buy this thing and that, just as though
a body didn't know every store in Wag-
town and where to buy cheapest" 'sWhat
makes me mad" says another, Sis the
measily, mousily way they spoke about
our church fair last week. Only a ten-line
notice. while right along side of it, plump
mp, was a scissor-grinder's 'ad' that no.
body wants to read. It just makes me
mad. Here I've been taking the Wagtoun
Bug9e for oyer ten years, and such a
skinny little notice; it's just a shame
"And what do you think that up-start
Office boy told Jinks the other day? Think
it was just as curt a piece of impudence as
ever | heard You see links, like the rest
on you, got tired of the advertisements and
went around to the office to see the pro-
prietor about it and have some of them
taken ont. He wasn't particular about
having them all out and meant only to
have the editor drop them on the first and
outside pages. When Jinks got to the
Office he found old Brown out, or rather
didn't find him at all, but there seated on
the stool, large as life. was that miserable
s~capegrace, Fiasco, the Office boy Is
Brown in?' said my old man. no. but
Dir. Fiasco Blastus is answered the chip
py little cub, what can I d. for youa.' It
just made Jinks mad on the spot, and lie
said you can tell Mr.. Brown that I don't
want his paper any longer Don't want
it any longer Blastus fred back, guess
it wouldn't do any good if you did. It's
too long now for the pay we get. Just
this morning | told old Brown he ought to
cut off three or four inches of its length
and make it a 20x32 instead of 20x36.
Longer, no Mr.. Jinks, you needn't be un-
easy about Brown making the Hdqtoua
BugIe any longer. It's too long now.
And that's the way the sassy brat snap
ped my man off,
Others object on moral grounds. II
shouldn't have this kind of an advertise
ment and that. There should be no show
ads. No circus ads. No patent medicine
ads. or no medicine ads. except what the
editor could personally endorse. He, the
editor, should pitch into this man and
that; should hammer the gamblers, pound
the rum men, Ego for'' the police, sass the
mayor. talk back to the preacher, ard in
short run the newspaper in exactly such
grooves as q narrow gauge church CON-
mittee would elect, forgetful that most
newspaper editors, country editors at least,
fight q hand to hand battle for a living and
can only make a paper what the people
will allow him, let the aspiration be what.
ever it may. If these idealic dreamers OF
what a new paper should be would only
allow some of the poverty-ridden Journal
ISIS q carte Blanche to the grocer they would
0 have a great deal more independence
of the right kind in newspaperdom, and a
great deal less dependence of the wrong
kind than what now maintains. Try it
and see. DIoGENEs.