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Day
2
Month
June
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Brooklyn Eagle, in an able article on " Newspapor work and workers," trutUfully remarka that there is no other prol'ession but enjoys immunity from obserratian as to its modes. The preacher writes in the privacy of his study, and can concoct platitudes or pad ou pitigiariíius that would be the ruin of the editor and reporter. The lawyer consults his cliënt and organizes his campaign in private, briugiug into court ouly as much as makes tor his cause and aguinst the cause of his adversary. The doctor plies his potions and launchés in his lancet in secret. If the patiënt recover it may ba the medicint! or it may be in spite of it ; if he die, it may bc pills or Providencè( the physician is scathe'.ess. None of these come to light that their deeds may be reproved. Moreover, the work of the press is oontinuous, as well as consfantly public. There is no rest for the weary. Spttce is 110 more annihilated by telegraph than timo by journalism. The evening and the morning are not merely the first day but all the seven. Night is annihilated to all its qnautities of repose. Every minute of every hour of the twenty-four is occupied by some workers doing some worlcthat shows itself in the novspa}.eT of the day and afternoon. Kepetition is as impossible as rest. Facts are ever new. Comments must be as fresh as faces, and the edition is a remorseless giant that eats up all the seconds. The making of a newspaper is perpetual motion in a thousand fields. Injsuch a workj demanding neascless eftbrt, permitting no pause, exacting eternal and ever varying exercises, it is impossible for wheat to be unmixed with chatf, for accuracy not tö he impairod by mistake, fojtejustice not ocoasionally to be done;

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Michigan Argus