The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-06-15
THURSDAY, JUNE Is, 1905.
WHITE ON REFORM.

WIIiluH Alien NHltc, du tne NatlOnn
Editorial association meeting In Guthrie
few days ago delivered the following
on reform from newspaper stand point,
"Ihis Is day Of reform. Everybody
is engaged in reforming someone else.
The preachers are reforming the news
papers, the newspapers are reforming
the politicians, The politicians are re-
forming the railroads, the railroads are
reforming the tariff magnates, the tariff
magnates are reforming the Standard
Oil, and Standard oil is reforming the
preachers-so the happy circle is COM
pleted, and when the bulldog Of reform
finally does catch his tail and swallow it
and turn himself inside out, we shall
have fine country. Generally speaking
most reformers are carrying their reform
as side line. They make travelling ex-
penses on it.
"Thc only place in this bright and
more or less beautiful world where re-
form takes the hair and the hide, and the
tail therennto appertalning, Is news.
paper office. 1t costs newspaper to, 60
into the reform business. II you tackle
the beef trust, brother editors, you will
hear from 1t when You take contract
for Vigoral and the beef extracts. If
you tackle the railroads, you will get a
chance to see more scenery to the square
mile when you travel than you have been
used to observing. If you tackle the
politicians, they will start another pa
per, which wont hurt you particularly
except as it is disgrace to the honorable
profession in which you are shining. II
you whack away at Standard Oil, there is
danger Of losing your Mica Axle Grease
and parafine candles advertising, and if
you are for Sunday closing you lose your
tobocbo and cigar and malt MURINE ad-
vertising. Yet you must reform some.
thing, The people demand reform and
if they don't get it they will stop the
PAPER. After long session Of medta-
tion and prayer the Gazette has come to
the conclusion that the only safe thing
to reform is the Russian navy.
Roosevelt is brave man, but if he
was running a country paper and found
that tho chairman Of the printing COM
mittee In the council was getting a good
many orders for pauper groceries In bis
store contrary to the letter of the statute
do you suppose the PRECEDENT would
open up in the next weeks paper and
print all Of the newsP
"1rover Cleveland did a brave thing
In sending the troops to Chicago, but II
he had been running the Buzzard's Bay
Weekly World, do you suppose he would
have had the nerve to jump on the drug
gist for illegal sales of liquor, whose wife
came over to sit up with the Cleveland
children when they had the scarlet fever!
Joe Cannon is supposed to be Indifferent
to public clsmor but II he wai running q
little country daily down In Illinois, and
u lot Of advertisers came to his Office 10
tell him that they would order out their
ads II he didn't stop printing the news
about the smallpox anc driving trade
from town-what would he dop
"'rhe eternal chesrfulness Of President
Roosevelt Is remarked the world over
A man can afford to be cheerful who
doesn't have to take anything ont In
trade, and gets his salary all in cash.
But supposing after he bad plugged away
for twsuty years making the best posi-
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