AN OBJECT OF PITY.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 108, 17 January 1880, Page 2

AN OBJECT OF PITY.

Another loader (?) graces the Feilding paper, and this time " Tlie Editor " has TeaUy written tup production which does duty for such an article. Qi this there cannot be the slightest doubt ; the effusion bears the unmistakeable brand of the schoolboy scrawl of that modest young gentleman, and goodness forbid that we should so libol any man as to saddle him with tlie authorship of such production. Siu^espeare makes the old watchman m " Much Ado About Nothing " insist that he should be written down an ass, aud "The Editor" m baptising his first and only effort as " An Object of Pity/ has placed his case upon its proper footing, and made an appeal ad miseriadcordiam on account of his juvenility. XJnder the circumstances, we do u,ot for one moment wish to question the. undoubted right which*' The Editor" possesses to his self-dubbed title, but certainly were such lively productions as that of fre<. quont occurrence, l}is unfortunate readers would have far more claim for compassion. Fortunately, h.owover, a benign Providence always tempers the wind to the. shorn lamb, and not only is the nauseous dose scnji : annual m its application, but the patients— patients iii luorc senses one — are of the most limited number, and hence the affliction is by no means widespread. Having been forced for once to lay down the Kcizzors and take up th,e pen, the young scriUe strove to make (lie best of a bad bargain, and immediately set himself up to act as critic aud censor. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sovy's ear, aud knowing as much of his subject as a cat does of conic sections, it is not at all to be wondered at that his treatise upon journalistic, or indeed any other etiquette, had »o other effect than to exhibit- his supreme ignorance, and to proclaim him an illiterate and egotistical 811 am, placed by his oue precious production m the pillit >ry of public ridicule and professional routeuipt. Indeed, had the puny sheet which bears his imprint a single reider beyond the Block it is supposed to represent, we should consider it our boundv.ll duty, iv the interests of the profession to obtain an injunction to put an end to what all will allow to be a stupid burlesque upon

A'fff Zealand journalism, Possessing all of the egotism of the pejitor of the LyM Arjux, without a grain of his originality, the columns of the Guardian have hitherto been notorious for the absence of editorial utterances, the extraction of stale paragraphs, and the wholesale pirating of unpaid-for telegrams. Too ignorant to write, and too mean to pay, the scizzors gridironed the sheets of his contemporaries, his readers vreve treated to columns of telegrams prigged with unblushing effrontery from an association to which, he refused to subscribe a single penny; and to make up for his shortcomings inside the office, " The Editor," outside, held periodical gatherings at street corners, where lie talked "like a book," and boasted of what he' intended to do. We have doae, and will pursue the vivisection no farther, else perhaps we might find ourselves taken to task by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Desperate cases require desperate remedies, consequently we have used the scalpel unsparingly ; if the operation be not successful m reducing the youth to his proper level, then evidenrly the fate of the f|*og which sought to be a bull is before him.