Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1906 — EDITORS NOT SUCH A BAD LOT. [ARTICLE]

EDITORS NOT SUCH A BAD LOT.

Marshall County, Ills, Democrat: It occurred to us this week as we run over our thirty or forty exchanges to note the moral tone in them. These papers are of all and grades, trom almost every variety of town, and are edited by practical meh, who are pretty well acquainted with the world, the flesh and the devil; and in not oue of them did we find a defense of immorality. In not one of them did we find a semblance of defense of whiskey. In none of them was there a trace of vulgarity, and none taught or justified dishonesty. Neither could we fiud a sneer at purity, at religion, at the better things of life. In many of them were excellent bits of advice, little homely sermons on temperance in all* things; frugality, industry. Whenever there was mention of the pnblic schools it was in terms of praise. To be sore, here and there was fun poked at sham, some scorn at pretense. But the note in every one of these papers was for decency, progress, enlightenment, morality. Aud of these editors in the three years we have been in Lacon, we have grown to know many of them personally, and of all those whose papers reach our desk not oue is a driuking man, not one a confirmed gambler, not one a libertine. A pretty decent lot they are, in fact we doubt if any other profession can offer a higher, or even as high a showing. Besides all this, the country editor is proverbially liberal, free hearted in every way. No public subscription list ever passes him without his mite. This isn't a humble effort to throw bouquets at our contemporaries, but, with Panl we believe every mau should mag nify his calling, aud we are proud of ours. w