The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-17

the window, and you would have been
a nice friend if you could not have en-
tertain'sd the other customer with the
assassin countenance."
At another time d man strobe in, a
big fellow, and, walking up to Dag
geGt with the Enterprise in his hand,
said:
"Daggett, this is a shame. My
cows are as we'll housed and fed as
any cows in the city; the milk l sell
is perfectly sweet and pure and / don't
deserve this kind of a notice"
Daggett took the paper, glanced at
the headings, saw a reporter had writ
ten up an article ON sweet milk, MAX
ing the man before him the victim.
But he did not hesitate for a mo-
ment. He turned upon the man a
whitening look Of mixed scorn and in
dignation, and said in a. tone which
was insulted integrity materialized
into sound:
You are beautiful specimen of a
man to bring a complaint to me. l
was down by your corral in the after
noon day before yesterday Che had
not been there in four years.. AS /
walked along the high fence I heard
your COWS crunching bones, and as 1
turned the corner where they could see
me, they looked up and growled at me
like dogs"
The man left the office in silence.
His emotions would not permit him to
speak.
"Daggett," 1 said, that was all on
the square, | suppose
He swung round in his chair and
replied earnestly:
THAT was necessary. That man had
to be fixed. He Will not bother uE
again for three years"
At another time Daggett wrote a
fierce arraignment of General W., a
distinguished citizen who was a cam
didate Tor a high Office. They met
next morning face to face, and the
assaulted man demanded who was au-
thority for the article.
Daggett replied: 1T was Blank, a
fourth rate lawyer in town.
An hour later the lawyer came into
/ the Office where we were at work His
| lips were white, and he was trembling
! like a man in an agUe. H could
scarcely command his shaking voice
| to say:
Mr.. Daggett, did you give me as
! authority for that shameful article on
General W. this morning.
Daggett slowly replied: 81 believe
l did
We'll, on what ground ?"
1T was this way said Daggett re-
fiectively. The general came upon me
sudden like and you were the first SON
of gun that l thought Of"
An old-tiEoe California editor named
Mcdonald was running a little papeu,
| in Downiville, Sierra county. 1t was
! then rough mountain town. and one
day Mcdonald was obliged to roast a
dangerous character that was troub-
ling the town in his paper McDon-
aid was warned thar the man was a
trouble.
Sure enough, next day the man burst
into the room of the edition. and. with
the paper in his hand, demanded the
| name OF the scoundrel who had writ
ten the article.
Under the editors table was a pile
OF exchanges that had been thrown
down after being glanced through.
Mcdonald, as though to pick up one of
them, bent down remarking. Let us
see what the trouble is From the
paDers he drew out a sawed-off shot
gun, and bringing it quickly across, his
arm, said calmly, II wrote the article.
what of it?''
The tough looked down the muzzle
OF the shotgun for a moment. and then
SAID as he backed toward the door. 81
merely called to say I thought ii q
me production. Good morning.
1 read once of an Irish editor who.
as friend entered his Office, was writ
ing furiously. The friend looked over
the manuscript and saw he was say
ing some frigntful things about the
mother Of a, rival editor. The friend
said:
DO you know this lady of whom you
are writing?''
''Divil a bit do I know the auld wo-
man, but if her whelp of a son has at
all the spirit of a man in him. this
article will cut him to the quick
fortunately that style of Journalism
is no longer fashionable, though some
tunes a newspaper quarrel is not with
out its compensations
II me editor of paper ought to be
a strong man, the manag cling editor
should be a great man. He must carry
IN ms mind all the needs of the Jour
nal; he should have perceptions 81
QUICK as to be able to judge INSTANTLY
the value of manuscript; he should
nave the incest discrimination of what
VIII or Will not meet the requirements
OF the community, and should have
nrmness enough to reject what is moi
: worthy. A first-class managing editor
Is one of the rarest of men
Or another order of mind is the perfec
city editor He must know the place. IN
peo tb the strong and weak po:nt
ne must be able at a glance to bring ~,
from manuscript all that is of use in if
ne must forever be on the alert and knoy
just how to meet every emergency.
The society editor should be a poet. th
dramatic editor ought to be a finisbe,
, scholar
: What will the paper of the future be?
OF course 1t will have to be perfect il
all its departments; everything of import
ance Will be found in it, without an
stralnlng toward the sensational The for
elgn, national, state, domestic and loca
news VIII all be given. All news of con
r Venent contemporaries that the tele
graph misses will be condensed and civ
: en-; the local pages will be truthful mir
: rors or the previous day, and the editor
. lals, guided by honest hearts, clear brain
and clean hands will be so couched tina
Inc serVent girl the stable boy the bust
ness man and the statesman will all rea
2 them and pronounce them good The
> Will be profusely illustrated but ever
picture Will be a work of art and a Der
rect supplement to the work of the per
Advertisements will grow smaller an
1 smaller, until finally they will ONLY b
r seen in supplements
! My belief is that the great sheets vii
! after while, with all their padding, dis
4 appear. and in their stead will be snalle
editions, and they will be issued severs
, times through the hours of the day, a
the range of the telegraph is increase
and the art of printing more and NOR
perfected. The days news VIII come t
e the people as bulletins are now sent fror
: a battlefield.
: Finally, may I for a moment for tn
sake of my brothers who are engaged i
the work of preparing the daily and week
, ! " journals that you read say one wor
in praise of their work
NO men work so hard; no men for thei