Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1892 — CUT IT SHORT. [ARTICLE]

CUT IT SHORT.

If it is unnecessary to say a thing, why say it? What is the necessity, the cruel necessity, for the unnecessary thing? “I wile not stop to enlarge,’’observes the preacher, and then he stops, and enlarge is no name for it. ■■lt goes without saying, ” remarks the editor, and then for fear it will not go, says it over and over again for a column of two. “Tell me notin mournful numbers," sings the poet, and straightway informs himself in many unhilarious stanzas of the very things he did not want to know. “I deem it entirely unnecessary to combat the gentleman’s views,” says the orator, and, so saying, goes on to combat them till some rude person cries “iats!” “It is altogether needless to enter on any argument to sustain this proposition,” says the learned judge, and forthwith enters on one of great length aud intense dullness.