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This Editor Is Full Of Rath

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Day
14
Month
January
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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One Couderí, a New York lawyer on being asked by a reporter what he was most thankful lor November 26 last, replied: "I am thankful because I am a lawyer and not a newspaper man." We do not know much about Cpudert, but iL he is quoted correctly, wc, too, are thankful that he is not a journalist. The great journals of the country are well supplied with recruits from the legal profession. Some of our ablest journalists to-day left the law to join the noblest of all professions. JournaliBmhasalways had great attracUoa for men imbued with, the noblest impulses. To be known as a journalist is to be known as a man of unimpeachable honor. Of course there are exceptions. We have a few charlatans, but they are very few and far between. There is no war between the two professions - law and journalism - nor need there be. The lawyer works for his fees and be his cliënt in the wrong or in the right, he is for his cliënt. On the other hand, the journalist can only serve one cliënt - right as his conscience sees it, and he is always for his cliënt. There are exceptions in bofh cases, but for our part we thank our Maker that we are a newspaper man and not a

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