Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1877 — Trials of Newspaper Men. [ARTICLE]

Trials of Newspaper Men.

One of the greatest trials of the newspaper profession is that its members are compelled to see more of the shams of. the world than any other profession. Through every newspaper office, day after day, go all the weaknesses of the world; ail the vanities that want to las puffed; ait the revenges that want to be reaped; all the mistakes that want Io be ccrrected; all the dull speakers who want to be thought eloquent; all the ineanr.eM that wants to gets its wares noticed gratis in the editorial columns, in order to save the tj>x of the advertising columns; nil the men who wuut to be set right vvbo were never right; all the cracked brained philosophers with stories as long as their hair,.anti gloomy as t heir linger nail* in mourning because bereft of soap. ritrough the editorial and reportorial looms, all the folliis and shams of the world tiro seen, day after day, and the tcinptition ts to believe in neither God, Mau nor Woman. It is no surprise that in this profession there are skeptical mon; we only wonder that journalists believe anything.—Exchange. Shelbyville crows ovei a three-legged pig.