KEEP YOUR MONEY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3752, 16 February 1907, Page 4

KEEP YOUR MONEY.

There is so much pleasure in running a newspaper that some editors are refusing money as a reward for their sevices. Here is the voice of a Kansas editor, which fairly gurgles with the joy he feels to work without money. “It takes wind to run a newspaper. It takes gall to run a newspaper. It takes a scintillating, acrobatic imagination and a halt dozen white shirts and a railroad pass to run a newspaper. But money—heavens to Betsy and six hands round, who ever needed money to run a newspaper ? Kind words are the medium of exchange that do the business for the editor—kind words and Church social tickets.

“ When you see an editor with money, watch him. He will be paying bills and disgrace the profession. Make him trade it out. He lives to swap. Then when you die, after having stood around and sneered at this Jim Crow paper, be sure and have your wife send in for three extra - papers by one of your children and when she reads the generous and touching notices about you, forewarm her to neglect to send 15 cents to the editor. The editor knows it and what he wants is heartfelt thanks. Then he can thank the printers and they can thank the grocers. “ Don’t worry about the editor. He has a charter from the State to act as a doormat for the community. He’ll get the paper out some way or other and stand up for you when you run for office, and lie about your pigeon-toed daughter’s wedding and blow about your bigfooted boys when they get a $4 a week job, and weep over your shriveled soul when it is released from your grasping body, and smile at your giddy wife’s second marriage. He’ll get along. The Eord only knows how, but the editor will get there somehow.” — “ Kansas Exchange.”