Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1899 — Genius Unrewarded. [ARTICLE]

Genius Unrewarded.

In a Chicago Sunday paper there is an advertisement of a gentleman who has a faith in his works that inspires him to declare that he is a “good all aronnd newspaper man,” and says he is out of a job. If what he says is true, society should hang its head. Here is a man who can, if he lives up to bis announcement, write a poem, weigh corn, discuss the tariff, nmpire a ball game, report a wedding, saw wood, preach the gospel, beat a lawyer, describe a fire so that his readers will shed their wraps, make a dollar do the work of ten, shine at a soiree, address a horticultural society, measure calico, abuse the liquor habit, test whiskey, subscribe to charity, go without meals, attack silver, demand bimetalism, sneer at snobbery, wear diamonds, invent advertisements, overlook scandal, praise prize babies, delight pumpkin raisers, administer to the afflicted, heal the disgruntled, fight to a finish, set type, mould opinion, sweep the office, move the world, play poker, scorn flesh and the devil, be everything, feel everything, see everything, know everything, and do everything on this whirling footstool at a moderate salary and support a family. real “all-rotfnd newspaper man’, is out of a job the blnsh of shame should ring for the elevator and mount the cheek of ungrateful civilization at onoe.