The Port Gibson reveille. [volume] (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1890-current, 1893-06-02

AT recent meeting OF newspaper
men In Portland Oregon, Col. p.
Donan made n speech in which nc
gave some good advice to his journal
istic brethren. lie said In The course
Of his remarks .....
We must put our business on busi-
ness footing. We shall, MS class, or
profession, be poor untiI we stamp out
the antiqnatei idea that our offices
arc in any sense the property Of the
public or the politicians. An the
world must be mntlc to understand
that newspaper Office Is business
establishment, by which editors and
printers must make living,and that a
man has the same right to walk into
grocery and order barrel of -four
without offering or expecting to pay,
rs into newspaper Office and demand
the use of its brains, muscle, typo and
skill without thought of recompense.
Editors are lab0rers, aud there IL no
more reason why their labor should be
gwen TO public enterprises and polii-
icaI parties, free of charge, than that
OF merchants, mechanics, lawyers, doc
tors or grave diggcrs. Politics aud
the public have no peculiar claims on
them, demanding sacrifice Of their
private rights and Interests. Their
first duty, like that of other working
Christians Is to themselvos and their
families; aud that duty can never be
discharged by making pack-mulcs OF
themselves for evcrybOdy's schemes
of profit but their own. "Busincss is
business" should be the rule and max
i'm OF editors as we'll as other men.
We must stop The abuse of each 9th
or; we must dam the shameful tor
rents OF billingsgate which have so
long flowed through our columns up
on our brother toilcrs. Why cannot
editors be gentlemen toward each 9TH
er? Their private characters aud pc
cuIiaritics are no more legitimate sub
iecls OF discussion than those Of other
professional men. If their papers are
bright and cntcrprising, and always on
the side of the people and the right, IT
matters not who conducts them, aud
but little what the conduct of their
conductors may be. Ours is tho only
decent profession that INDUCES In
these indecencics. What would The
world say of doctor who should ride
around proclaiming all bis brother doc
tors diabolical quacks9 Yet all these
hideous barbarisms and vugarlsms are
part of the daily intercourse of editors
with each othcr-of editors even of the
great city papers-of editors, who,
more than any other class OF teachers
aud exemplars, save one, beneath the
skies, arc tho light of the carth--of ed-
ilors, in whose almost omnipotcnt
hands, In a great measure, rest The In
tellcctual aud moral destinies of The
world. No wonder our profession
stands no higher than II does when It's
own members thus degrade II aud
themselves.
We must abolish The system Of in-
discriminate pufTery, which is one OF
the Ioudest crying evils OF our profcs-
sion. Blarncylsm must go. Brethren
In inky bonds, journalism can never
attain its true dignity aud deserts un-
III this nauseatIng iuiquity is wiped
out. Cease fawning around the up
starts ofluck and Iucre. Lay aside the
twaddIing.lying vocabulary of brilliant
aud eloquent, powerful, polished, ir-
reproachable, upright, noblo aud pa
triotic, as applied to the harauglle or
the bosotled carcass Of every tcnlh-rale,
a.-mmt~L ~~A h<.smn InaIhonf fnla thai