Year: 1864

| Independents OF eAo 180D0.


The following article from the LaCrossS


Democrat suits US. We don't care about
publishing paper at all and those ,~Ho
wan! to own US can make much bsttce
bargain by bidding for the TINES Office and
then the machine" will bs theirs, to print
just such things as are offered by CON-:
mittee Of politicians, q town council, re:
lgious synod or Ladies tea-party. Brick
is being pitched into for various ''delinquen-
cies" and he takes occasion to 90 back on
few swell-heads whom he has endeavorcd
to make MEN Of. His light way Of treat.
ing the butchery Of the Fort Pillow ne.
groes is not to our mind 4 bit, We think
none but n,urdsrers would do acts 30 inhu.
man-but Brick gives the world to under.
stand that an independent paper is . pow.
er greater than its patrons usually regard
it:


As to rtising patrons. This paper
is owned from paste pot to pen by one
man. 1t is edited by that one man, and to
please him. And that one man who new
sits writing this article, cares not the snap
Of broken finger who else il pleased or
displeased. We have never yet submitted
an item or editorial to any living being for
approval, nor we ever intend to. We arc
not one Of the sneaks Of editors who tv
curry favor, will whitewash q nigger, en-.
dOrse what we believe to be wrong, or fail
20 approve Of what we believe to be right.


There are editors, and hell will be full Of
them some day, who edit such papers as
the Wisconsin, who will lick either
side of the crust which has butter on, swal.
low any dose of politics or religion for fyd
cents. We aint or 1t.


wnen we edit paper to please adver.
tising patrons, we'll let you know. Poo.
pie may advertise with us or not, it makes
without advertisements or subscribers
We have done it, and even without type
and presses, and can do it again. And
we can live without crawling into any
mans kennel for the sake of being licked
by his puppy. The Lacrosse DEMOCRAT
is not joint stock concern. If we fail in
it, thank God we know how to work. and
know how to steal Either is preferable to
editinga paper and crawling around on
your belly for the sake Of few dollars
worth of patronage from the government or
some simpleton who believes that the in.
sertion of five dollar advertisement 50.
cures the control of the edit or's pen.


When we have an opinion We express It.
When we make up our mind to do thing
we do It, no matter what follows. If wa
are wrong, then it is our misfortune. We
know there arc papers all over the country
which will shivcr around corners, endorse
i,nl,ucilitu in off olv tn n r;poc those
editors know to be wrong and against hu.
man nature, for little patronage. Such
editors are the white livercd sneaks Of the
profession. They arc the spittoons of the
true e, itorial sanctum. They are the Judas
Iscarlo,s of Faust's apostles. They are
towards who hide behind policy and hurl
envenomed darts at their neighbors who
are honest in opinions expressed. They
are the leaders of fools and fana,ics-they
are the men who damage country more
than they beneft-they are the snoops
who, like egg sucking dogs, steal q living
from the poultry yard-they are the wealth
er cocks which point just which way the
pay comes from.


He would be fool indeed who would
tone his paper to suit every patron-who
would write for or against, as some adver+
tiser dictate.


We have learned these things since the
torning which brought us hither.


MEN will patronize the artist, editor
mechanic or laborcr who does the best
work.


MEN will advertise in papers for their
own good, and not for the good Of the edi-
tor.


MEN will respect an editor who speaks
his mind and gives to others the same lib
erty he takes for himself Editing news
paper is thankless task. The public is
never pleased, so it is advisable to please
one man at least. If merchants wish to
prescribe us for politics we know how to
keep more custom from them than they
keep from US.


We have learned that the public iSmore
willing to damn than to praise.


We have learned that being q sort Of
good fellow to every one, is but to bea
fool.


And we have learned that the LaCrosss
DEMOCRAT is about as independent paper
as there in the State, and we Lelieve in all
respects as good looking, extensively copied
from, well damned, and prosperous as any
paper in Milwaukee or elsewhere, and that
it matters not copper whether We have
the i'll opinion of the Wisconsin or any
other paper Of its kind.


Other editors may do as they please. but
we have concluded that whenever, in the
course of human events, it shall become
necessary for a man in order to edit news.
paper to relnquish his right to free speech
when it shall be necessary in order to
secure an advertisement for it's business
columns to enquire into and endorse every
ism, creed, dogma, idea, whim, fear or ca,
price Of a man-when it shall become ne
cessary for man to obtain patronage only
by making his political columns an editorial
kaleidoscope and advance ideas he does not
believe in-whcn it shall become necessary
for man::to say a man is right because he
is in power; national matters are progress
ing we'll because taxes are high all SOL
diers are gentlemen because they wear blue
clothes that we endorse all the acts of our
rulers when common sense tells us and
events daily occurring prove they are
wrong, We will run our type into bullets,
our presses into guns, abdicate the editorial
chair, set fire to our property and become
knight Of the Road.