The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1869-02-11
The Country Editor.


Journal
The Country Editor. 81
In many cases this functionary occupies a
very undesirable, though very useful posi-
ton we consider the country Editor in his
relations to his subscribers, to his advertising
patrons and to the reading public around
where his paper circulates we say where, he
and his paper circulatss for it is quite as ne
cessary that he himself should circulate as it
is for his paper to do thessame
And first, as to his subscribers as such. AL
most any one will subscribe for the country
Editors paper, providing the transaction is
not cash down. This is done from various
motives sometimes it is to help the matter
along as it is good thing to have paper in
ones own town.
Sometimes it is for old Acquaintance sake,
or because the Editors father was personal
friend to the subs 'ribcr s father-or. perhaps.
they were old schoolmatcs or had messed to-
gether in the war. Sometimes it is for party
purposes, for the country Editor can serve an
aspirant for Office right good turn on occa-
sions and even get him elected to office and
then it would be bad if theofficer elect should
not have his name on the list. Some sub
scribe because they expect to advertise and
some because they expect to write for the
ceuntry Editors columns.
I" Its a pleasant thing to see ones name
in. print" book look although there's
nothing int. Without stopping to enume-
rate farther the causes prompting to subscrip
ton we will take a peep at the country Ed
tor when brought face to face with his sub
scribers on pay day. The idea is now new
that the country paper was ever to be paid for
just simply having been subscribed for old
Acquaintance sake and the city paper giving
all the news one wants anyway-however
we'll pay for it, but be sure and stop the paper
when the time is out. Country Editor hear
ing this begins to think the public for whom
he has been working so hard, after all only
regards him as sort Of fifth wheel in the
body polite, and as such must either do his
own grcasing or go without. This makes him
feel badly, and sometimes to sigh out with
the disappointed Office seeker, 6 O the ingrati-
tude of Republics =
The country Editors relations to the ad-
vertising public are often truly ridiculous
all that class of advertisers, who wish to get
themselves before the public =" without money
and without price, pour down upon the coun-
try Editor; and they have all conceivable
propositions for his travelling through adycr-
tisingdom working his passage by leading the
horse, or, what is equal to it, making his own
pay by earning it. And these sharps preylpg
upon the country Editors labor, make the
thing pay A hundred OR thousand adver
tsements in as many country papers are worth
to them more than the ventilating they would
get from the largest city papers. 10 wind up
what we have to say, under this head we
would just simply state, that the advertising
public would generally prefer reading the
country Editors articles on advantages of
trading in their town, than to pay even a
small sum for advertising.
But what say the readers of the country
Editors paper? Many readers dom read it
at all because it is country paper edited by a
country Editor Some glance over it and
think it is pretty good paper for the country.
=" Pigmies are pigmies still though perchcd on
Alps" but the converse of this is not true
worthy Editors are Editors still though en-
sconsed in village. But enough. This is
only sample Of list of complaints that ev-
cry humble man. might make out who moves
in an humble sphere in life. A shrewd couu-
try merchant, with the same talent and in
dustry, carried to the city would expand with
the new set of surroundings, and in time be-
come merchant prince as well as city mer-
chant, The same can be said Of the lawyer,
the doctor, the editor, Of any one. Men need
surroundings for growth and enlinence, as
well as plants and trees. It becor~..es every
one to improve theraselves-and if possible
their surroundings and make their village OF
tcnn city, or at least a place Of Importance
Value OF Virginia Bonds.
The rise in Virginia stocks is to be attri
buted to the prospect of the old Common
wealth being delivered from the despotisn
of the negro. They rose the moment that il
became even probable that the propositions oil
the Committee of Nine would be accepted
f. How different is the result in the case Of
North Carolina, whose stocks have under hel
reconstruction exhibited downward tenden
cy, as well they may, when the capitalists O.
the country behold the reckless manner II
| which Holden and his Radicals are running
| her in debt.
IF such is the case in North Carolina
where the Radicals constitute far more in
fuential and respectable class than they do il
| Virginia, what will be intallibly the result il
the latter State should Bayne's Constitution
be carried? :;
| 1t does seem to us strange indeed that an,
can be found in Virginia: directly or indirect
ly concerned in maintaining the credit of TIN
State, who are so insensate as to oppose tn
plan Of some of the old commemorative mos
patriotic and distinguished sons. If the oil
fogies, by the help they are giving Wells an'
Underwood, should succeed insubjecting Vir
ginia to the negro, the bonds of the Stat
will not be worth the paper they are printe'
on; while if the committee succeed in thei
efforts, in few months they will rise to par
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