Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1877 — Newspaper-Making [ARTICLE]

Newspaper-Making

It isn’t boy’s play, reader, to make a newspaper. Everybody can’t do it, although most people tnink they can. More excellent qualities of head and heart are required in an editor than in any other calling or profession in the world. He talks to more people than the pulpit does, and talks to people of all grades of life and of ail shades of belief. If conscientious, and no man who is not has any business in the editorial chair, he feels the responsibility of his position as it it were a mountain on his soul. He knows that the welfare, moral growth and peace of the community depend largely upon his daily or weekly utterances. Many times does he draw his pen through lines which express his sentiments, but which he fears may be misunderstood, and do harm to some of those whom be desires to make better, and not worse. It is not an easy position —it is scarcely a desirable one ; and yet, if he happens to express a sentiment which -does not suit the reader, tile latter is uncharitable enough to lose no time in censuring him. The editor does not always think as the reader does ; he can’t. It he did, if he never expressed a sentiment except such as the reader cherished, what would be the object of taking his paper? It is certainly foolish to pay tor a journal which simply contains a rehash of what we have long before thought of ourselves. But, reader, when you are induced to find fault with the editor because he says something that doesn’t suit you, remember that you can’t get a paper, under the sun, if it amounts to anything, that will not sometimes say things that you can’t agree with.— Western Rural. —__ There is a general impression that the fine Italian hand pf Mr. Tilden would be more potent in Illinois politics if it had not made its mark in the politics of Oregon. Two or three such little jobs will be calculated to lessen the public confidence in the great reformer.— St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Indiana believes in peace and fraternal political reconciliation. Her sons practice what they profes o , and honor the Blue and the Gray—the governor and the lieutenant governor,