EDITING A PAPER.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1001, 19 November 1881, Page 4

EDITING A PAPER.

The following was found in the office of an editor by the county sherriff : — Editing a paper is a very pleasant thing. If it contains too much political matter, people won’t have it. If it contain too little they won’t have it. If the type is too large, it don’t contain enough reading matter; if the type is too small they can’t read it. If we publish telegraph reports, folks say they are nothing, but if we omit them, they say we have no enterprise, or suppress them for political effect. If we have in a few jokes, folks say we are nothing but a rattle-head ; if we omit jokes, they say we are old fossil. If we publish original matter, they damn us for not giving the original selections; if we publish original selections, folks say we are lazy for not giving what they have not read in some other paper. If we give a man complimentary notices we are censured for being partial ; if we do not all hands say we are a great hog. If we insert an article which pleases the ladies, men become jealous ; if we do not cater fheir wishes, the paper is not fit to be in their houses. If we attend church they say it is only for effect ; if we do not they denounce ns "as being deceitful and desperately wicked. If we speak well of any act, folks say that we dare not do otherwise ; if we censure they call us a traitor. If we remain in our office and attend to business folks say we are too proud to mingle with our fellows. If we do not pay all bills promptly, folks say we are not to be trusted ; if we do pay promptly, they say we stole the money.