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Our old friend, Editor Packard of the New Albany Tribune must have struck a snaug. In other words he must have been in when the fighting editor was out, judging from the fol lowing editorial in the paper under the Ception: “DON'T BE AN EDITOR.” There may be some of the young men and young women too who have recently graduated from the institu tions of this city who will have their thoughts turn lightly towards editor ial work on newspapers. If so, in all good conscience we say to them, “Don't. [IF you do you will be a slave in every sense of the word ex cept being sold. And poverty may force you even to that. In anything else you will receive occasional marks of appreciation and recognitions never or very seldom, if you are an editor. You will see preachers and lawyers and everybody else complimented, and congratulated, and you will have to be glad just to be let alone, for you will never know that anybody knows you appear in the paper i at all unless you say something that is not relish ed. You may do the fine writing until it shines like the sun; you may be as sprightly at the fawn or as beautiful in expression as a day in June; you may touch the flowers of poesy, dally with wit and indulge in humor and ridicule and you will never learn that anybody has ever seen it. Beware, young man, of the editorial profes sion. Of course there will be an occasion al exception. About one out of a hun dred of your subscribers will be a read er of your editorial productions, and occasioally one of them will give you a word of encouragement that will warm the remotest corners of your heart. Except for these you would abanidion editorial writings as all van ity and vexation of spirit, and if you did not throw out your editorial page entirely you would make it up from the large city papers, crediting or stealing according to the field in which you might view this point in newspaper mortals. But there is one strange way in which you will receive consolation. It comes through the intolerance of some of the few who read the editori al page. If you possess ability enough to have a thought and know enough to express it, you will quite uninten tionally tread on somebody's toes. You have dared to differ in opinion from one of your readers andl dived to express your view. To your surprise and consolation you will speedily learn that a person about for years you had not suspected of such a thing had been reading your editorieals. “Stop my paper? is the surest possi ble evidence of it. And you took one point further into starvation for the loss of another subscriber,you are con suled by the knowledge that one more than you knew about has been read ing those fatal editorial colummns. In all seriousness there is no place so utterly thankless as to edit a local paper in a small town or city, espec ially if you venture to do your own writing and express your thoughts. But if you are determined, young man or woman, for make a newspaper discard utterly anything like an edi torial page. Have no opinions. Have no backbone. Publish nothing except such things as everybody believes, and therefore are generally stale, flat and unprofitable. Everybody except an editor may have opinions, but be not burdened with such discreditable things, #100 25 of cotton per week. Other mills are likely to follow suit. The Amoskeag mills are the largest producer of man ufactured cotton in the world. In conversation with Mr. Richard Johnson, proprietors of the Eagle Cotton Mill,he said it was his belief that the stringency in the money market was the cause of shutting the Amoskeag mills,and that it would more likely be for the period of that stringency, than of for August alone, as the telegram would lead one to suppose. Mr. Johnson says there is no inten tion of shutting down the Madison mill. This shows how safe business is in our city. ‘While we have no great inflated booms, we are not even on the raw edge of failure, but are al ways safe. No town of its extent and business in the state has as few fail ures as Madison. Great fortunes are seldom made here in a brief time, neither are they lost, and Madison can point to as many Wealthy citizens, men who have obtained their wealth here, as any city in the state of its size. Moral: stay in Madison and help build it up. Far more the late Court House improvements are seen, the better they are appreciated. ‘As has been staite , the credit of the inception of the work and its successful Carrying out, is due mainly to Mr. D. A. Rob erte, of the Board of C ‘ounty Commmiss signers. —Courier. From the above, appearing in the mouthpiece of the Republican party in Jefferson county, and hence a pa per that has full knowledge of the Republican county Board of Commmis sioners, we would judge there is but one member of any get upon that board. We say we would judge this from the Courier’s article but knowing what we do we are inclined to discred it this judgment. With all due cred it to Mr. Roberts, who by the way is a hustler, the improvements at the Court House were suggested long ago by the Mod M. Club, and Capt. Thomas promised he would vote for and push these improvements if elec ted. We was elected and the im provements have been made. As we have not attended the meetings of the board we of course could not assert that Mr. Roberts did not force Capt. Thomas and the other member to vote for this improvement, but we doubt it. If we were running a Re publican paper we would say that Capt. Phoutas had been one of the main pushers in having the improve ments made at the Court Tense.
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Madison Daily Democrat
Madison, Indiana, US
Thu, Jul 20, 1893
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