Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-05-05
WALTER A. BURLEIGH. SR.
CHAS. II. LOUD.
THE cARPET-BAGIEDIToR,

Recent rumors Of change inthe edi-
torial department Of the Helena Jour
nal, are revived by the following from
Yesterdays Inter Mountain:
A rumor blows over the range from
Helena this morning to the effect that
there Is to be a change In the editorial
department of the esteemed Helena
Journal. II is stated that Mr.. Tom Mar
nv, one Of the associate editors OF the
Portland Oregonian, has been invited
TO take charge of the new capital daily,
He IL a very able and experienced man
and his advent will be warmly well
coined by the Montana press OF both
part as .-Helena Herald.
We don't know whether il will or
MOI. The promoters of the leading
dsilies of Montana will perhaps, after
experiencing a few more successive
failures in their importations of for
eign Journalists, learn that there ia as
good journalistic talent at home as can
be found two thousand miles away.
When our journalists are encouraged
30 believe that they are eligible to
editorship of big home newspapers,
when they come to realize that their
coming TO Montana and accepting in.
ferior positions on newspapers does
not damn them to such positions for
ever, when they grow to believe that
an accumulation Of learning incident
to,the country, extent d personal &C.
quaintanceshirs, IN ! rg energy In
the performance of their work, the ae-
auisition Of book lore, and a contin-
nous mani festation of varied and in-
genious literary ability, when they
grow to believe that these qualities an
not doomed to be exercised In vain 10
the mere drudgery of newspaper work,
then and then only will they look for
ward with worthy ambition to q life
long continuance In the noble profes.
sion of journalism and not feel that
their occupations..are only being held
by them to accommodate present ext
gencies, while they live In snticipa-
ton of abandoning, at some future
time. the newspaper business and em
barking In other professions where
their progress, born of their talents
will not be circumscribed by newspa'
per corporation which seeks In distan'
places TO find men to ill Its honored
positions and has no interest 10 the
advancement of the profession al
home.
The great dailies of Montana, wher-
ever they are published, have no ex'
cuse for sending outof the territory for
their editors. They have before them
the pick of almost the entire journals.
tic field of the territory. Very many
men highly competent to edit large
dsiiies, who now publish small weekly
papers In towns, would willingly re
lieve themselves of their present en-.
gagements to accept q position as edi'
tor of a leading daily with its munifi-
cent pay; and we aver without fear o.
contradiction, for the circumstances Of
the act concludes Its truth, that every
time a daily newspaper In Montans
sends out Of the territory for an editor
without first making an effort TO find
u at home, 1t 10 guilty Of a direct
affront TO the great body of our jour,
nalists and as suchltbe act ought to by
them be thoroughly understood.
The su ocesslve importations of gen.
tlemen from foreign states TO assume
the sceptre on our big papers, to mould
public opinion about which they know
nothing, and to prearrange the course
Of events OF whose cause or consequen,
effect they have not the slightest idea,
has upon each occasion, almost with.
out exception, resulted In the most dis
gushing failure. They are most in
variably insipid, sometimes incompe-
tent, and do not seem TO possess the
faculty Of grasping existing conditions
and a~ssImilAting them into a concen-
trated action. In short, they are not
the men for the position they are called
upon 10 al, soon manifest their def
ciencies and are retired from their
chairs and another overture goes out
into the eastern world for another edi.
tor, while the ex-incumbent packs bis
grip and takes the next train for the
land from which he hailed.
The fallscy ~ believing a mar TO be
competent TO assume n Of our editor.
ial charges, simply because he chances
at the time OF his engagement TO be
employed on the staff Of some large
eastern newspaper will also, we pre-
dict, be fully proven. The great
dailiss Of the east are jealous Of their