Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-12
Iona Newspapers
THE N EDITOR.
washington, Ia, Democracy

" NitrIS iiS hS IL
deluge of articles on the country edi-
tor. The big papers are always dis
cussing the country editor. They
handle them with gloves on, as il
they We're some pest that had to be
handled %gingerly or something that
might be caching like the measles or
smallpox; or they might be liable to
break out in a new place, like wild
Indians.
What is the use? Who asks the
big papers for any patronage or for
any encouragement or for any odds
for hat matter? Surely we do not.
We say We get tired of it.
A country editor is as i%ndepend-
emit as a hog on ice. compared to the
big city editor. OF courses, he defers
to his biggest advertiser. When his
biggest advertisers daughter gets
married he swears by the long horn
spoon h a h is a fairy nympll,
when, ten to one, her feet don't track
and her hat Is on crooked. He de-
fers to his oldest subscriber" who
pays when he ome to town, and he
speaks of him as our prominent
citizen. Mr.. Doodab," and then writes
a nice piece about the team he drives
and about how liberal he is to the
church and in charity, when he knows
"doggone" well that he pays the
low to save wear and tear on his
vocal cords and makes his wife go
~barefooted in summer to save shoe
leather. However, aside from that, the
country editor is as independent as
We said he was.
But he asks nj odds from his city
brother, n dad bump his pictures,
he doesn't ask for any nice pieces to
be written about him. He eats three
square meals a day if he can get
them. and If not he writes nice
pieces about land that flows with
milk n honey and swears. by gum.
that his party is entitled to the
credit.
Asa favors from our city brothers!
Not on your chin whiskers. The
county editor breathes the pure,
free air of liberty, and you get more
patriotism in he average country
paper in a week than o get in the
big city daily in g. coon's age. The
country editor thinks he believes
what he writes. while half the city
editors-we mean the political and
religious writer's, write what they
are paid to write. Thus many a
democrat is boosting for the repub-
lican party, while the republican
editor writes nice pieces about Bryan.
In the country, bless your life, we
live neal to our critics, who find us
out before we find out ourselves. If
We resign on any proposition, before
SHUTDOWN half a dozen offended sub
scribers are trying to stop their vile
paper.
Tell us the country editor has a
hard lot. Maybe he has but he is at
least on the square He believes what
he says, unless it is a big advertiser
who believes it for him. But you come
Ia good deal nearer to the facts than
you do in a city paper, where the work
is done by scores of writer's and no.
body is actually responsible, because
nobody knows who the guilty party
ma be.
The country editor, bless YOU, sees
just as many funny things Inc laughs
up his sleeve at them, just the same
as you big city editors do. He sees
sham and pretense among the rich and
others, and the men who work relig-
ion and those who try to work the
lodge and those who are bosses and
those who think they are but he Just
laughs. AS James Whitcomb Riley
SAYS of Old Jap Miller, HE just
chawed." So we must chaw on"