The Journalist, from which so many of our exchanges have been clipping, offers some very appropriate suggestions under the heading, "The pay of Newspaper Men." The circumstance that so many men are declaring journalism a profession in which the work is hard and disagreeable and the recompense is small, is the result of so many being in journalism who are wholly unfit for their positions. Some men, the writer thinks, can earn no more as a journalist than as a mender of roads. Thus ability and adaptability are as important here as in any of the other occupations. Able men are well paid; others do not earn good pay, and very naturally cry out against the profession. It might be added, too, that not a few, who say newspaper men are poorly paid, speak from very personal interests. Journalists or would be journalists very naturally object to increase of competition.
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