Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1864-03-11

the yearly price--never one. And know
that tho files for year Of our most shabby
papers contain more entertaining reading ttAn
you will find in single work of Dickens
counting advertisements and all. Be away
from home year or so without seeing your
home paper. come across one then, and see
how you will dovour every word Of II except.
perhaps, tho everlasting advertisement about
the vermifnge for worms, or Mrs. Winslow's
Soothing Syrup for infants And you will
probably be interested even IN them Ii infants
in your family are like they arc in m;no---
regular biennial institutions.
wish could speak Ia detail nbort the
country papers Of our State. They are, in
the main, worthy OF all commentator, bet.
ter, think, than the country papers Of any
other State in the Union. Why our Legis.
lature should have treated them so ungencr-
ously heretofore, never could oyplain, ex-
cept upon the theory that Republics are un.
grateful. ! say ii with profound respect for
the legislators we have had "a well as for
those we are likely to have, that tho State Of
ty were the General Assembly to meet only
once in ten years; but that il tho publication
Of our newspapers were suspended for 40
than the Mexicans at the end of it. l entteat
the Legislature to bo just to the press. do
not ask for generosityI suppose you do
not. lam sure, however, the Legislature
intends TO do you justice. The trouble is,
printing is science so profound In its ma
turc, SO varied in its functions, so to say, and
so wide in its Scope, that there are prccioss
few members of the Legislature who under
stand it. Nor are they TO be blamed for this
any more than we are TO be blamed by u car
pen,er for not knowing the particulars of hi.
business, though wo could probably tell
house from a'pig pen at sight. Ii is norv
difficult, knew. to understand the t.i!Isr,ne
operations Of a printing Office, but it is not
impossible to give the Legislature clear
general idea thereof, and that being done, I
have no fear of the result. This il is your
duty to do, and trust that il will be done
at once.
Gentlemen Editors, you live in a State Of
which you may well feel proud, and you ara
engaged in n profession Of which you will
DO even proudcr. You owe i, to yourselves,
you owc It to your State, you owe it to your
profession, to labor on rs zealously ~ you
have laborcd heretofore, and keep the PRESS
of Iowa up to high standard Of excellence
You make the public sentiment Of the State
You may send men to the deliberatv.
bodies thereof or permit them TO enjoy the
comforts of domestic life in IN, bosoms Of
their families, as you like. To This end, it il
oaly nee .ssary that you should assert your
Independence. and stand shou',,pr to sS,nl.
der together Horace Greeley. Ia. dny h..
more influence in America thnn ths Cah;net
of the President; the Chicago Tribune NOR.
than the Illinois delcra in Congress- An
editor il Speaker Of the Honse of Renresent.
ativss, made such by the press of The country
within my certain Knowledge. And Il laa
been many wears s,ucr We have had n bett,r
Speaker. Public moa are ant TO underrato IN,
influence of the press. for ihe reason. | sun.
pose, that It's influence docs net come an at
once like tie Ca,nanche hurricane. but i.
gentle and all.sprca,ling like that OF the sun.
know Of no better Illustration Of its jrilu.
cnce than cnn tel! from my own ss.er,a.
! ton.
4 good many years ago, YOU will remem.
Der, Clay, jackson, Adams and Crawford ran
for the Presidency. At that time was ly
idg in Prebc county, Ohio, and .thouph Quit,
young not having been born a puppy. had
my eyes open. One result of the race was,
that men settled down into Adams men"
and jackson men" They were known Ly
no other name In preble county, the only
paper there became an Adams paper. Ever
afterwards, 50 long as the Whig party exist.
cd, it was a Whig county by about Quo ,hou
! sanL majority Butler county, adjoining i,
on the south, and considerably more dense)y
populated, had n jackson paper only. 1t
has been Democratic ever since by from
twelve to fifteen hundred majority. Warren
county, immediately east of Butler. and pop.
uhtcd about iko Prellc, had an Adams ps.
per. TWAS a.waya Mhig a!ou, like Preble,
Montgomery county, immediately north OF
Warren, had a jackson and All Adams pc per.
I |, hrS Lcen close county ever since -
Though dcnsely populated and containing
one Of The best cities in Ohio, three hundred
majority either way, has ever since been 4,
"big thing" II has gone Whie, Democratic
and Republican, These are ,he counties of
the VallandsAam Congressional District.
wherein iiist saw the light Similar facts
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