Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — 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 will not stop to enlarge, "observes the preacher, and then he stops, and onlarge is no name for It. “It 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 not in 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 “rats!” “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 and intense dullness.