AMERICAN EDITORS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 574, 21 September 1880, Page 2

AMERICAN EDITORS.

American editors are not pf.an apologetic order, but that they ; ,can, if necessity' compels, make the honorable" let this specimen, show :-^:, _ " There is.a:fly in our; office/-one par- . ticular aggressive fly/distinguished from .. its brethren by a pertinacity and' untiring •• - energy that, if properly directed, is. .. enough to make him President. .'Other ,'" flies we can dispose of by whisking a paper' at them or putting them out of the window. But this fly we can't manage. ,We - don't like to kill flies. 'There, is something... - c • so confiding about them, that it seems filet a breach of hospitality to kill them. That fly tumbles into our inkstand r cr-awls-out, and dries his little feet by.walking oyer -. our paper as we write.., The compositor has had hard work to decipher our manuscript sometimes, and in. this connection we would make a slight correction. -In - the last number of our paper'we called the Hon Mr , ■ 'an unprincipled demagogue;' we should have said <a high-toned patriot.' It was all the fault' of that fly.. The honorable gentleman's brother came into our office this morning with a new and substantial-looking cane, and reminded us of the misprint."—lf this worthy was liable to having his inge- . nuity much taxed in this way, he would ■ have done well to have imitated an ac- ' commodatingbrother, who gave notice: "If any subscriber finds a line in this paper that he does not like, and cannot agree with; if he will bring his paper, to the office and point out the offending line, the editor will take his scissors and cut it out for him."