Show AS TO GREAT EDITORS c cs s t- t The Chicago Tribune says that there has not been beena a great editor in the United States senate for many years jears It is just possible that this is true and it may account at least in a measure for the fact that for many years the United States senate has lias been somewhat dull and impractical But come to think of it there are not a great many great editors outside of the senate of the United States There arc are Bowles and Watterson l left ft b but t no more Danas no more Raymonds Raymon s nomore nomore no nomore more Greeleys Gi no more Gradys not another F Pren Prentice Pr n- n tice that tice that great arra array which just before the he great war made journalism journalism- a a- wonder Mr 11 Whitelaw Reid is still living but he is no long longer r an editor h he has grown to be an and then Mr l Reid has written nothing since the thc war comparable with his war letters from the field His description of how Grant finally took Vicksburg was finer than Gra Grants Grant's 8 own description it is as much finer than anything he lie has written of late as were Murat l Halstead Halstead Hal Hal- stead stead's s 's letters finer than anything he wrote during the last ten years rears of his life There was a man named Watson editor of the theS S Sacramento Union during the war wal who was worth more to the golden state and to to the whole west than would have been an army of men We Ve are t ld he lie died in obscurity but he was vas one of the themen themen men that California when it gets fully civilized will win build a monument to He was one man whose image California should insist upon having placed in In a prominent nich nhe in in the hall hail of 01 fame His words every morning were a trumpet call to the themen men of California to be true to their trust trust trust-as as they b by bv their constitution had consecrated their state to to liberty to make good that constitution There arc plenty of bright men at work on on papers papers pa pa- pers in fl the cast but when one reads them day after day he hc is too apt to discover that they arc after all blind horses working on a whim Some of the great and and rich institutions either a railroad or a bank 0 or both combined own the papers and there is a a. limitation put upon upon their editors editor's genius all the time and when that is done then the glory passes from froni the thc paper and aDd it becomes a merc sheet something to be sold n |