The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-10-06

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NAV nj Tho tima he unnonuIorS JInnuos-
tioiiapiy, yes. 10 90 otnerwlse Is dem
aSoSy, no. 10 say cowaTuiCe, anu 10 pu.
II on tne lowest grouhu; demagogy ana
co"aruice never pay lruIh!
"The power to blind and loose to Truth is
given;
The mouth that speaks is the mouth OF
Heaven.
The power, which, in sense, belongs to
,r none;
mus UNDERSTOOD belongs TO every one.
1t shines for all, as shines the blessed sun 1:
It shines in all who do not shut it out
ny dungeon doors OF unbeiief and doubt.
hapol ano priest may De chaineo oown 10
al iies, 81. nm, s,or,,, r;,noa ~ on,t
n"u Dao1J 80, any y 'u'A"s' "'"seo W "''1"'
Tell the truth. BACON said: 1.-The
create ST truth between man and m an is
the truth of giving counciI- If Won as
sume this truth as assume il Won do ms
n newsnaner ediior then ha honest wifi
If and fear not Mo n,easnre ia com
parable To standing on the vantage
ground of truth,
truth crushed 10 eartn snail Lise
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d., error ,rayyndaS wr,thss ~ y,o,,
and S;as snona hi. wnrsh;nnars y,
Then, my friends, when we Weld to
the Establishments of expediency. and
prepare an article in which we ourselves
do not believe, the thing to do is to have
is great fodder for the cat, but it should
never appear i'm our newspapers
/ believe that the news should be
printed. l am fully persuaded that the
mere publication of crimes, with names.
localities and dates, is the greatest of
all deterrents; but l deprecate the pad
ding out of lasciyiouS incidents i'm sala-
cions cases and of revoltiug features in
brutal atrocities. 1t NAV sell news
papers, but it demOralizes the people.
That such Journals as the Philadelphia
| Ledger, the New York Sun and Post
and the Springfield Republic can be
built up without this debauchery shows
that the permanent readers, those upon
whom newspapers must count for steady
patronage. do not approach such Jour
nalism. Either the blue pencil should
be freely used on such stuff. or the
whole boiling should be placed in the
soup-bowl of the office cat.
Dickens in his inimitable Pickwick
papers, and the editor of the Arizona
Kicker, have given us food for reflection
upon the subject of quarreling editors.
/ shall not rehearse the story nor at
tempt to re-point the sarcasm of the
Englishman and the American. l only
wish to say that space given up to such
exhibitions is worse than wasted, and
your enemy unfailingly reacts upon
your own head, by bringing the entire
profession into contempt. Hackle the
opinions of your editor adversary as
vigorously as YOU may, but never, upon
any provocation, do otherwise than
treat him. personally, with ccurtesy.
The more suave YOU are, the more
coarse and offensive he, the greater is
your advantage. l know of no time
when the office cat will so eagerly rear
up OH his hind legs and paw the air be-
seechingly than when he sees you, with
selfsatiSfied air. reading over before ii
goes on the hook an article in which you
turn the air blue with objurgatiOns
against your despised contemporary
by all means give this manuscript tC
the talons and the teeth of your fides
achates. Let him eat it and digest it IL
he can. If there are many aches over il
then they may be cured with a dose OF
two of cat paregOric, and suffering
public may he spared what it invariably
regards as an infliction.
There is another kind OF copy which
should be fed to the office cat. 1t il
that which is uniformed, erroneous
and carelessly prepared. Every editor
here would consider it his duty
to protest against the selection OF
an unlearned and incompetent man as
, principal of the high school in the dis
/. trict in which he lives; and yet, how
many of us endeavOr TO fit ourselves fol
!. the position of general critics which VT
, occupy? 1t is just as much the duty OF
, an editor to be intelligent and accurate
as to be honest in his expressions. II
does not follow that we need be doctor.
, of law, medicine and physics. Neithel
Horace Greely, Benjamin Franklin nol
John Walter were these, but it is a.
, much incumbent upon us 70 inform our
tt stteS anu W pG oei acasarn S ~ oou -
ment upon everything which passes
! in review under the sun: Hence il
impaiis my cohndence IN Ih9 s;, eui.or y y
tn saa h;no S :tata M shat walrabia sfat;st;c, .
are Considered by. him as no better thar
; ; rubbish. Your readers expect you I,
i express opinions on everytnlhg o.
' mni;,;os ,;,aratnra 70 tha arts .nd nd sc;a5cas
4 and upon important features of tn,
news, but rather be silent than inaccu
late. ~ viii Oe Os;,n iM Tet'et 81 .or you you
!, Son s6ould prepare an article upol
o. WnOoC StotCuiChto VI haSeo you oiOuouoe