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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 15, 16 December 1884, Page 2

■; . 1 There was a time when it was considered decidly -infra dig to be known for a newspaper writer. There are still some people —especially m the colonies, strange to say —who effect to look down on journalists.and_tln"nk it a.very cje,vsr. thing to sneer at anyone ,'th^jr do 'not like by hinting that he is connected. ;hi seme way or other with the Psese, j We heed hardly say that these*as a rule are either very stupid or vulgar people,. Not unfrequently they.nre both,| and, their pretended contempt for newspaper' writersis m reality 'th"c outcome of j jealousy and self-conscious inferiority.' They may be rich and even clever 'm! some ways, but they feel themselves be^ low the Ignark intelectually, androit^ galls them to know that they coulji not sit down and write a dozen lines: that would be' worth reading on any subject under the sun. Hence it nflords tliiein a certain sort of course satisfaction to de--preciate writers generally, and especially to insinuate that journalism is a 'poor pursuit which no man of ability wouldt engage, m, miles* ho.were .obliged, ' This (^ar'icty of snobs,- however, are s fast jbe-, coming rare; because the timo has arrived when an enlightened society give the place of honor to men of letteis, and when no rank is too/high for its occu- • pant to be proud of 4pi fbficiency as: a "newspaper writer. Timaru Herald, v ;: