Show ADHERENCE TO FRIENDS every individual expects much from his friends this anticipation is a laudable one and men in pub lie and private life should strive to and retain this confidence the framework of society is largely composed of lucli mutual trusts but it is too easy for this friendly reliance 10 lo degenerate into a exaction without adequate return we have seen a trust which has grown up through long years of helpful association suddenly brok en and its usefulness destroyed because one of the parties has noted an inconsiderate or weak act on the part of his friend the offended one could bear with a thousand errors in an acquaintance but his bosom companion or business partner must have no human frailty it is a species of egotism to praise our friends and look to them for con duct irreproachable toward ouri our i selves newspapers arc not exempt from the operations of thi rule when a man yields hig faith to a journal it must never err if it make the slightest departure from his preconceived notions of right or policy he is too often ready to reject it entirely it is so easy to forget services and friendliness one little lapse real or fancied and all is over and then because humanity craves intimate associations the offended one gives his confidence to a new friend or his support to another journal he docs not realize how much he is yielding and how little he is receiving because of one point of difference he has destroyed ninety nine points of union too often lic finds that in his new ti eshe has but one point of concurrence and ninety nine points of disagreement such friendship and confidences growing out of a spite formed bei tween people and papers of different aspirations and opposing view must ever be unsatisfactory and evanescent A man BOOD finds how much he has sacrificed to his selfishness or unworthy pride and how far from filling the old place are the new confidants confidantes es well for him then if he have the strength and honesty to retrace his steps and retrieve his losses the people with whom are identified our affections our our interests are our best and staunchest eft friends the journal which we have tried through storm well aa sunshine is our biest secure shield too often it is our own judgment which is at fault and not our friend or our favored |