The Boys and the Frogs

  SOME editors of newspapers were engaged in diffusing¹ general
intelligence and elevating the moral sentiment of the public.  They
had been doing this for some time, when an Eminent² Statesman stuck
his head out of the pool of politics, and, speaking for the members
of his profession, said:

  "My friends, I beg you will desist.  I know you make a great deal
of money by this kind of thing, but consider the damage you inflict³
upon the business of others!"