St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-22

| sucks in everything from everybody,
| is Unsuitable, and when saturated, he
/ daily or weekly, as the case may be,
| goes into retirement long enough to
> squeeze himself for the benefit, not of
the dear people, but of his more prec-
ious paper. He pays, or promises to
pay, for his hustling, and the man
who does it must be all things. He
must be a detective with the eyes of
an Argus; the nose of a sleuth hound,
the assurance of the devil, the tact of
a woman, the endurance of Samson,
and the digestion of a glass-eater. Add
to this quick wits, taking use of Ian
guage, and the meekness of Moses and
he may be able to hold his job. He
must always be ready to scour the
highways and byways, even if he
never gets time to take a bath him
self, and must be equally at home in
the church and the slums. The re-
porter is the hustler. Is he to be en-
We'd? If in any other vocation he
spent one-half the energy in his own
service, one-half the application and
zeal for the Strengthening and broad
ening CT his own brain power, he
would live as God intended man to
live and die, leaving an immortal in
fuence for good. Yet such is the
thralldom this gathering life
means about men, that bright, keen,
brainy, they hustle to the end of an
almost wasted life in the service of
some great newspaper that sucks their
heart and soul and life and brain from
them for less pay-ability and service
considered-than is given in any other
known business.
VIRTUE ITS OWN REWARD.
But what of the country editor, God
bless him. The only being who is rec
ognized as being wiser than the coun-
try legislator. He is usually a hustler,
and that's what ailS him. If he pat
termed after the city editor he would
be bow-legged bearing his burden of
glory. Whoever heard of a really sue
cessful country editor hustling? Did
that prince of country newspaper man
ayers, Alvah Eastman, ever hustle, or
the divinely beautiful Heatwole, or
Lucifer Pluvius Hunt, or Old Granny
Pease? Why, to hustle means to
work These men could scheme with
the devil and bankrupt him, but work,
never 1t is the rank and file Of the
country craft that has not yet learned
better than to hustle and what have
we stored up to pay for our years OF
self-sacrifice and endeavor in building
$50 distinct Chicagos in this one state?
Nothing, absolutely nothing, except a
clear conscience and the fringe
around the heels of our trousers.
The country editor is the midst of
his town. No one there has scheme
that he does not bring to the editor to
work for him. Every plan for the good
of the town, or of some individual 9TH
er than the editor, originates with him,
or he is the instrument of its doing.
He coaXes, flatters, booms, browbeats
all for others-his share is the salts
faction of taking the blame. The in
fiuential citizen wants an evil attacked
that he dare not openly assail, or an
enterprise favored that would die
a-borning if it were known that he was
connected with it, and yet he cannot
afford to run his advertisements in
dull seasons, and wants his job work
at cut rates.
The lawyer who would climb into Of
flee with the hustling editors help
would have him cut legal publication
rates while it is professional for
the doctor to pay for his advertising.
The politicians only ask for the edi-
tors entire time or his entire paper for
three months before election. He can
make lifelong enemies supporting his
party; he can lose paying patrons by
his burning editorials; he can print
caucus and convention calls, supple
ments and cards, and then contribute
his bill to the campaign committee
while the officials he has elected will
draw their salaries and let him have
the county printing if he can underbid
the opposing party organ. And yet the
whole crowd will stand around and
yell, Boom the town, stir up the ami
mails, keep things moving, hustle, hus-
tie, hustle" and the poor editor-his
debts unpaid, his innards hung up in
the express office, the farmer after him
to damn the railroads, and the rail-
roads growing because he wants an
extra ticket to carry him away from
hades: distracted, overWorked, IN
nerved, his only vacation a meeting of
this association, which he cannot af-
ford to attend, keeps on hustling, try
ing to go down in history riyaling the