Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-10
EDITORS OUT OF JAIL.

The Prison Mirror, published in the
penitentiary at saltwater Mimi,
says
why II is that from the first in
ception Of our paper to the present
time we have never had an editor to
sojourn in our midst? Other profes
sions have been well represented. OF
preachers we have had enough to fur
nish subsistence to an African chief
for a year; OF doctors. sufficient in
numbers TO depopulate a State; and
of lawyers, enough to establish a good
sized colony in hades. But editors
not one"
The same reports have come from
time to time out OF other great
prisons. Editors are law abiders. And
the same is true in almost equal
measure OF printers. In numerous
large penitentiaries there are not
printers enough TO put the little pris-
on papers into type, nor pressmen
enough to take the papers through
the press. This is as good evidence
as possibly could be submitted as to
the integrity OF that large class Of
people who produce our publications.
II is a condition to be proud of. II all
classes were equally guiltless, our
prisons would be all but tenantless,
our courts all but useless, our coun.
try all but crimeless. Undoubtedly
the men who write, edit and print
newspapers and books are the best
poised citizens in any land. The
making OF the printed word teaches
caution. The printed word lives,
therefore 1t must not be wild and
woolly. We hear the uncensored
orator on the stump giving thunderous
expression to vagarles and hallucia.
lions; we hear the lawyer at the bar
indulge in outburst OF bitterness and
prejudice; we hear the evangelist in
the pulpit hurting anathema right and
left, and occasionally We hear even
the Judge on the bench deliver dicta
of the most Incorporate and exag-
gerated character. The editor on the
other hand, chooses his words with
care. He may be partisan and preju-
diced and vindictive, but he retains
his equipoise and remains iudicious
in the selection of his terms. This
principle soon permeates his whole
life; therefore he thinks and lives
conservatively. Besides editors are
so busy they don't have much time
20 rob trains or pick the pockets Of
widows and orphans-State Press.
AS State Press says, editors do not
have time for much devilment Edi-
tors are generally pretty busy. When
they get up in the morning and light
the fire, grind the coffee, milk the
COW, cut stove wood for the day, feed
the chickens, work out the garden,
rake up the back yard, and then after
a light repast, go to the office and
sweep out, get the water and ice,
make a pot OF paste, grind the scis-
sors, distribute the dead FORMS"
read nine dailies and thirty-seven
country exchanges, write four col.
umns of editorial, ten columns of To-
cal, attend one or two mass meetings,
listen to half hundred tales of woe,
give ear to a few grafters who have
schemes that are bound to save the
country, write the heads, read the
proof, check the pages as they come
from the press, hash" up four or FIVE
columns of time copy" for next
morning, then go home and work the
flower beds and NOW the lawn, it's
getting along toward supper time and
the average editor has not pep enough
left to get out and rob bank, hold
up a citizen, start a rough house.
steal a horse or live double life
No, editors have not the time to go
to jail.