The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-24
TIE SEATTLE ACKNOWLEDGMENT WEDNESDAY a. 1898

the.ess serious, blrndsr Of permitting the
young men Of the Chicago newspapers TO
make fun OF the country EDITORS clamor
for passes 10 the fair grounds. The country
editor has Just cause for his demands He
may be Q little crude IN making them,
and he may not care TO so into discus
sion OF the details Of his Justice in asking
favors He may be hrusque and naughty.
or even humble aad obsecuious, in stating
his case. His Clothes may be
shabby and his address may be
careless The sleek. shrewd. we.l-fed,
we:g-c!oshed clerks. who know their
little routine of work and who see Life only
in their narrow esiy alley. may smile At
the aua;n. manner:sms OF speech and
phrase that the country editor assumes.
bu. their smile tesrays only ignorance.
Dealing with every manner OF <hySser that
the broad pIane of humanity afford has
crussed the country editors heart, and
constant irritation has made hisn nervous
and tender-raou,hed; ye: the clerks and
uncers.rappers who iaugh with the re-
porrers at the country editors demand for
passes would be silent II they knew with
what heroes they are often dealing.
For txo years the country editor has
been printing column after column about
tie great fair All the clippings that the
bureau sent out haye found their way into
his columns. He has read mis- own proof
and consequently has read himself these
clippings when they were 50 wretchediy
put together that no other human being
would read them. He has printed hun
dreds and hundreds Of dollars worth Of
free advertising. and he has cherished Tie
fond hope tina. one day he might board
the train Tor Chicago with his family to
take little holiday. He has taken rail-
way advertisements for passes to Chicago;
he has stretched his purse 10 buy clothes
for the tired little wife and the herd of
brighf-eyed children; and he has stinted
himself and haggled with paper drum
mers and type foundry men for eighteen
months to save . little nes:-egg for the
fair. Christmas was \ little duller last
winter than usual for the family of the
country editor. and the wife has made the
old hat do" with little homemade
trimming through the fall and winter
and spring. She has even left of her
rheumatism medicine that che might save
a dollar, and all the little details of the
family life have been strcwn toward the
holiday. It may be very funny for the
smooth, suaye clerk 10 make light OF the
country editors demands. There may be
a great deal of humor IN It; but to any
one who knows the life OF \ country editor
It is just little thonghtless and brutal.
The men who are managing the Worlds
fair wiIl.do we'll TO treat the country edi-
tor with kindness. He has his hand on a
mould tina; can shape the future history Of
the fair for good or evil. He will apprc-
ciate Kindness and is slow to resent an in
suit; yet, when he does. he Is hard to pia-
cate. The city papers with ali their stereo-
typed descriptions. all their elaborate, oc-
casionaI .write-ups.' cannot reach the
people as does the little country e0stcs on
the little country paper. He is rataer TO
be chosen than great riches, and his loving
favor rather than silver and gold.