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Show JOURNALISM. Honesty, integrity, good nature, fairness and intelligence are qualities which grace any station or walk in life, but nowhere do they appear to better advantage than in a man conducting a newspaper it matters not if it is political, po-litical, commercial, religious or simply and only a newspaper. There i3 no room in journalism for ignorance, prejudice pre-judice or narrow-mindedness, and yet bo many men of that calibre drift into the profession. You can tell this sort of an editor as soon as you see his paper. He is always fighting a grievance, griev-ance, he is always wrought up to the fullest tension over some grievance of his own, his next of kin, or the public. The fact is he cannot write in other than the intense strain. He cannot write the philosophy of politics or any principle contained in a political proposition. pro-position. But he is always at home in the abuse of some public man, or in defending, pushing or panoplying a partisan matter which is a little or very greatly off color. He is narrow and false in every relation in life. He is not a good churchman, nor does he Bhine anywhere where the qualities we have named "at the commencement of this article are required. But the journalist who is envious of the prosperity of his co-laborers and who resorts to means, the falsest and vilest, to array prejudice preju-dice against a rival who gets in his way and who beats him because be-cause he makes a better paper, has better business methods and a firmer grip on the respect and confidence ot the public, is the meanest and most ntemptible of the lot. This is the man who is responsible for the low estimate the public puts upon the profession; pro-fession; The bulldozer is next in rank below the jealous man in the profession. profes-sion. There are men in the profession who hold merchants and business men to their support by" f ear. They are so reckless, bo abusive and "so mean withal that business men fear them, dread their anger, and, to avoid the const" quences, patronize them, and for no other or better reason. Many men of the world, and business men, too, at that, have a mortal terror of the news paper think that condemnation at is bands is equal to sentence by the courts. The coward who runs a paper on this principle has no power to injure and his approbation or condemnation amounts to nothing, if it does not make friends for the persecuted, which is often the case. We have all seen this kind of a paper pa-per and all despise it alike. Indeed, we have one in our mind's eye at this moment, which fills the bill admirably. We would not have the men cursing ub who curse it daily, not for the entire income of the New York Herald for ten years! We court and desire the good will and patronage of all, but if to get it we must jump on, abuse, lie ahout and male them afraid of us, we do not want it. This kind of a journalist is a blood-sucker, a jackal, a coward and a brute. He should be tabooed by all, respected by none and his statements despised. |