Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — Distinction with a Difference. [ARTICLE]

Distinction with a Difference.

“It’s rather disappointing,” said the Cuban insurgent, “that we can’t be recognized as belligerents.” “Never mind,” was the reply. “We are all right. You’ve noticed that when a young man gets through a medical college he puts out an elegant gilt sign, and is known as a ‘physician.’ But whenever anybody in the neighborhood gets sick they send for the old-fash-ioned fellow that everybody’s besn calling plain ‘doctor’ for years.” “That’s true.” “And some of these people who sit In the office and write pieces about us are Journalists. But the one who gets the real facts is simply known as a ‘newspaper man.’ ” “Yes.” “Well, we aren't any 'belligerents.' We’re fighters.”