Sponges

The Clinton Herald says that, “it may be taken as an invariable rule that those who require most of an editor, are they who do the least toward the support of his press; and those who complain most of the conduct of his sheet, are they who are its constant readers, but whose names do not appear upon the subscription list, or if by chance they are so recorded, they are sure to point to a long arrearage dues unpaid.”  True, every word of it; but editors are generally good natured people, and so they submit to it.

                                   

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, February 27, 1862, p. 2