| Show NUGGETS OF TRUTH an exchange tells tho the plain unvarnished varn ishad and ami unpalatable truth we know a newspaper man who is thinking of giving up journalism because he believes the workers on the press are not treated fairly he remarked the other day when feeling down in the mouth let me tell you how it goes oes A child is born he said the doctor in attendance gets ija 15 the newspaper chip chap notes the arrival and gets la 10 0 the infant is christened the mit minister lister gets k 1 10 and the reporter gets gels it marries and the minister gets a nother another fee the chap on the newspaper gets a piece of cake maybe or in the course optime of time it dies die the doctor gets from 5 to the minister gets another ten spot and the undertaker dont take a cent less than a the editor the fool that he be is prints a gushing obituary and receives and on top of all this the privilege of running free a card of thanks from the family to friends and to the insurance company for a prompt settlement then look at the abuse we get from every quarter it the dear d ear public could just once get det it into their heads beads that business is a newspaper leatis business perhaps 01 ld abo be a better belter feeling rill all round q WP hi are hounded scorned and i pat upon by the roughs boughs 0 and scum of the town those who appear before the recorder and gets a sentence the middle and kid gloved classes turn up their noses when they meet us because we ire have inadvertently omitted their names at some public function the girls hate us ua because we have perhaps complimented some deadly rival of theirs their sand and the old maids despise us because we jolly them on oil their single blessedness public officials denounce us because we criticise criticism critic ise them openly when they are wrong 0 and cant eee it ministers have no use for us because we print what god has deemed lit fit to let occur and have no room for all their sermons my advice to young men I 1 tell you is to shun the per business the free press is a 9 glorious thing I 1 know but we nye are as a rule as aa thin skinned as the rest of humanity and cant stan stand censure still tho ahn people of any locality are after afler all the real newspaper makers and the newspaper is is only a mirror which re fleets them just as they are ex |
