The Prison Editor by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 6, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 18.

The Prison Editor

By Editor

THE following is among the latest deceptions to please particular customers. We are told that a prominent dry goods house in New York keeps a man whose principal duty is to be discharged to appease irate females who make complaints to the manager. It is stated that at times this man is discharged from the employ of the firm as many as ten times a day. This is equivalent to the "prison editor" of Japanese papers. For infraction of the publication laws somebody must go to jail, and so the prison editor's chief duty is to expiate the newspaper's offense by languishing in a cell.