The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-08-23

ignorant, but this year it will not do.
The day has gone by for a greet fnan-
cler to borrow the money and elect
himself to Office. All the great national
hnanciers have now exhausted their
credit. l slated the last one several
years ago, but he was defeated and is
playing beanbag at the poor farm this
summer with a gent who has a theory
about an international language, to-
gether with a long standing case of
paresis.
Ever since the mayor of Seattle said
last year that the entire country has
been this year at what may be called
the extreme sinister point of CONNER
cial oscillation" I just give up and
went to work by the week. I knew
that I was that myself, but I had 40
idea that the country was such.
Yes, it would be well to subsidize the
press. 1t would help you and at the
same time it would not offend thepress.
Substituting the press should be done in
a genteel way of course, not rudely Or
coarsely.
Do not go into the office while others
are present and a loud voice seek to
swap a cigar with one worm, wet end
to it for the never dying loveof apaper
that has come to stay. You only give
offense and hurt your cause. Vulgarity
is just as offensive to an editor as it is
to a man of refinement.
Again, do not fancy because you are
acquainted with the man who writes
the musical column on Sundays that
you can claim the political support of
of the paper. Do not, because you
have been out late with the editor, fool
yourself with the idea that he will let
you dictate the course of the paper.
You might come in on him during one
of his lucid intervals and be thrown
out. Editors do not feel bound to drop
their work in the morning and play
croquet with the casual outcasts whom
they met the evening before.
Do not go into the editors office to
cheer him up" You would not go
into a merchants office to cheer him
up, would you9 Not if he saw you
first. Editors are the only ones who
have twice as much to do as anybody
else, and yet have to be cheered up by
men who are the light and sunlight of
a smoking car and have an hour or
two to spare, so come in to swap lies
with the editor"
The only editor who succeeded in
making his office a delightful rendez-
vous is the editor who finds himself at
the close of the second year with ga
host of friends, a large exchange list
and two bundles of paper in the express
office which he cannot get out.
When 1 ran a paper 1 did not refuse
to see anybody. Most anybody could
drop in casually and have fun with
me-. Even when the bailiff came in,
and I knew that I ought to work, I
said: "Come right in. Inever have
refused anybody yet, and it is too late
now to begin" So he came in.
The manner in which you met the
editor you speak of was extremely for
tunate. Always meet an editor on the
train if you can, especially if you wish
to subsidize him. His wife's i'll health
will also be a good thing, not so much
for her but for yourself.
You are no doubt getting a good
property if you buy the paper. Do
not count too much, however, on the
good will of a paper. When I closed
out at what was called by the foreign
clothier who closed me out ga great
sacof1ze," 1 did not get much for the
good will of the paper as I did for my
navy revolver which l had used in
securing the good will.
You need an organ if you contem.
plate coming before the people as a
didate, and Iwouldsay thatyou should
lose no time in closing the trade. IN
less he has basely deceived you regard
ing the bucket and the potash you will
do we'll to close with him at once. g
The beauty of having an organ while
you are a candidate is that while you
can say the most fulsome things about
yourself no one will ever suspect you
have an interest in the paper. No one
ever does. With a paper, Mr.. Smith,
you will be surprised to notice how the
public will be as clay in your hands,
Guard with jealous care the good will
of the paper. I used to put the good
will of my paper on top of the djction-
airy and then put the dictionary in my
chair to make it high enough to fit the
desk.
When the office was afterward shot