Where are today's fighting editors?

Thin-skinned?
The present editor of the Chaska Herald, Mark Olson, is preserved
for posterity as a cardboard cutout at the Chaska History Center.
The 1970s artifact, at right, made his appearance in person.

The editor was fed up and he let his readers know it.
One-hundred fifty years ago the very first editor of the Chaska Herald fired off a front page editorial, the likes of which none of his successors, including the two wimps pictured above, have ever had the courage to write.
The biting paragraph is preserved for public viewing to this very day, under plastic wraps, in the archives of the town's history center.
Read on:
Those persons who are in the habit of visiting saloons on Sunday, kicking up the devil from morning till night, disturbing this quiet village to the sore annoyance of its well-meaning inhabitants, should bear in mind that such conduct is not becoming to themselves and doesn't reflect any credit upon the proprietor of the establishment. They would be much more highly respected by all good citizens were they to remain at home with their families, and reserve such hell-a ba-loosa to be enacted upon rainy weekdays. Mark, and don't compel us to refer to this matter again in still more scathing terms.
Charles A. Warner, The Chaska Herald, May 22, 1862

The Chaska History Center is celebrating the 150th anniversary
of the Chaska Herald, the town's oldest continuous business.
Among the numerous displays is this
copy of the Warner editorial written in 1862.