Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — The Best Work Done Under Difficulties. [ARTICLE]

The Best Work Done Under Difficulties.

It has been my experience that a man •does his best work under the most disadvantageous circumstances. When he gets things so that they exactly suit him be is a,pt ito do nothing at all. It is the same with cities as with men. Look at Kansas City. If there is a spot on earth that one wou’d pick out as the worst possible pLa-e for a city, that spot is the site <©f Kansas City, and yet there lias grown a great city that has outstripped its competitors. Milwaukee has a better harbor and better conditions than Chicago, which had to be tilled in; which has a stream running through it at a decline of an inch a mile, so that everything stands still and stinks, and yet see what Chicago i* and think, what it is destined to be. A hundred years hence Chicago will be the greatest*city of the world, and I mean what I say. As it is with men and cities so it is with newspapers. A newspaper when it puts up a splendid building and surrounds itself with every convenience is apt to be a worse newspaper than when its editors and reporters had to work in one room under the greatest disadvantages. There is an inspiration when all are working thus together, which is lost when everybody has a separate room, and this editor is No. 14 on the first floor, and that editor is No. 7P on the sixth floor. Therefore, as a reader of news apers, I can't say that I look upon the erection of big n ‘Wfpaper buildings with favor.-JrCoi. I ijersoll.