WHAT EDITORS WERE MADE FOR.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 297, 6 April 1877, Page 4

WHAT EDITORS WERE MADE FOR.

And now we discover the ol.j eh of Provvlenca iu- the creation of ed.t.ors. Id ■ not deny (for F can- ali'oi-d to civdit ad men with wh.t b,|..i:s to them, and am not compelled to steal) t- at f am not a little Uidbttd to Dean. Ku dt, who givts as one of the nasous for nor. abolishing Chris imity arul t'--o establishment in England the bet that it provided a ela-s of men (the clergy) whom everybody could at liberty insult with en 1 ire impunity. knowing that their professional eiwrng- r precluded them from resorting to t;eviolent measures that a Luyueuv would employ. And so tin-: ehii-or ali'onls a safe receptacle for all the small spite v. hieh it has-pleased- Providence to b.-stow on our race. A man sa\ s : " l don't dare to totich any of my ne ghboevy. For r- asom which t will not. spved'y I do not wish to say anything to my v. it,-, ibtt I ran v. me a tetter and blow up the editor. It lie ha* said, or allowed to lit? s.i.id, anyti.ui;' I don't like, or anything thai", is e/pable oi an unfavourable coii-aa'ue; i I can an my cheap loyalty and p danthrn; y ami orthodoxy, and- can call him all manner of names. "Probably be will be too busy to reply; but lean hope and klieve chat, t have made him wince, and the relief tome Wvd be all the same." And what ad - Ughtful thing it is to think that any one above the of —well, above a very low grade of intellect—can stop the pap.-r.