Year: 1876

THE CITY EDIToR-THE COUNTRY EDITOR.


The editor of q city and of a country
journal are two different and distinct
species of individuals. In the city the
editors identity is merged into the jour
nal. Every department has its corps of
editors. The men who write the leading
editorials are trained to that particular
branch Of work. The city or local editor
editor works up the local field, and
hashes up painful suicides and drunken
rows or mobs so that the greedy public
swallow the news with a rapacious appe-
tite, and cry more more


The selected miscellany and compila-
tion Of news items are presided over 10y
men who are adapted and trained to that
particular department also. Then every
city journal has its corps of reporters,
who are really auxiliaries to the city or
local editor. These reporters are sent to
-att~nd and report the proceedings OF all
public meetings, conventions, and are
even dispatched TO report sermons oil
eminent divines at evening church meet
ings or Sabbath services. Then also the
advertising department is presided over
by men who give their attention, exclu
sively, to working up patronage and pre-
pairing advertisements Tor the paper.


The finances OF the city journal are
in charge of another separate head, and
perplex not the editors, who, when they
are writing for the public interests. are
not at the same time distressed by other
considerations. The publishing of the
paper is also Independently managed. In
fact each department of a city journal is
entirely separate from the others, and
none OF the men employed are ever liable
to get flaming leader that is calculated
to excite the public mind to concert
pitch" mixed up with a delinquent sub
scriber's failure to pay his 81 so in ad-
vance.


The men in charge of city paper are
unknown personally, and are, therefore,
not obliged to shoulder curses long and
loud and impregnated with sulphur
enough to start a second edition of the
Internal regions.


Let us now pen picture of the coun-
try editor to be seen in every country
village of any pretentions whatever.


The country editor is obliged to pre-
pare his own editorials on all the leading
questions of the day. To do this he must
read up" constantly, and unless his ed
itorial rakes into some one, or tears up
some interest he is not able to hide un-
der the cover of his journal, but must
take a shower of oaths for being stale.
IL he rakes into parties or measures he
of course receives the shower all the
same. lie is expected to blow the horn
of every aspirant for political favor in his
party, and at the same time ii he asks
such aspirant to help him raise the
vino" with which to "toot his horn, he
is told that some individual who has
swung his hat, three or four times over
his head, must be taken care Of and he
must stand aside.


The country editor must take an inter
est in all local matters. He must advo-
cate all public improvements and thereby
win the hate and lasting enmity of tax
payers. who are opposed to public i'm.
provements. If he does not advocate
improvements, then the masses call him
the paid tool of rich taxpayers. He
must attend all meetings and conven.
tions, and if he fail to report the same
in full he is said to be behind all live
journals. He must write up local spicy
matter, and if he notices an importan,
improvement made by Mr.. A., he fall.
under the lash OF Mr.. B.. because he did
not happen to be aware that Mr.. 3. had
made improvements also, which were
twice as great, on his property.


| If the country editor obtains adyertis
| ing, he must go for it personally. Every
time he turns around he must turn ovel
a sixpence, or the sixpence will turn hin
over. He is personally held accountabl,
Tor all typographical errors in his jour
nal, and must oversee the make up
and printing of his paper, and if he has
Job office attached TO his establishment
be must look after stock, drum up work
and personally attend to the details o


the jobbing lie must select all miscel


lany, compile all news items. write obii


uaries. and take hand at providin


nonsense for such OF his readers as lik


it, Besides all this he is at the financia


head of an Institution that would pei


plex even a banker and his score of as