The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-07-02

A nine column poster IN o. town that wiz
support but n five column newspaper 10 .
poor investment. An attempt to ape met.
ropoltan airs not only incurs greater ex.
pense but it curtails the receipts. Adyer.
tisers seeing a large amount OF patent
medicine ads and other dead matter, viii
invariably want half page for the price
oi a column, which proposal the publisher
under the circumstances, is too often com.
PEELED to accept. Keep your space down
to n limit that is actually needed and then
you and not your patrons can name the
advertising rates Remember that q paper
is like every thing else--the wider tits spread
the thinner ii gets. Advertisements should
be kept changed with the seasons. Don't
advertise for straw hats in January nor
for arctic shoes in July, such neglect looks
badly for our climate to foreign readers,
and is calculated TO disgust the advertiser
Who undoubtedly is not getting the worth
oi his money. Witha well conducted local
and editorial departments limited amount
oil advertising space will always demand a
premium.
mo other public teacher lives so wholly
in the present as the editor; and the enoblest
atfirnations Of unpopular truth the most
selfsacrifcing defiance OF n base and selfish
public sentiment that regards only tha
most sortlid ends, and values every utter.
ance solely as it tends to preserve quiet and
contentment, while the dollars fall jinginI
into the land-jobber's vault, and the miser's
bag-can but be noted in their day, and
with their day forgotten. 1t is too often
his cue TO utter silken and smooth sayings,
to condem vice SO as not to interfere with
the pleasures or alarm the consciences oil
the vicious-to commend and glorify labor
without attempting to expose or repress
any of the gainful eontrivances by
which labor is plundered and
degraded. Thus sliding dexterously
between somewhere and nowhere
the able editor OF the ninteenth century
may glide through life respectable and in
ease, and lie dewn to his long rest with
the non-achievements OF his life emblaz.
oned on the very whitest marble, surmount.
ing and glorifying his dust.
There is a different and sterner path
/ know not whether there is any nov
qualified to tread it'll am not sure that
even one has ever followed it implicitly,
in view OF the certain meagreness Of it's
temporal rewards and the haste wherewith
any fame acquired To asphereso thorough.
ly ephemeral rs the editors must be
shrouded by the dark waters OF obliY
ion. The path demands an ear eyys
open to the plants of the wron2ed and
the suffering, though they can never re-
pay advocacy. and those who support
newspapers viii be annoyed and oft
Ell exposed by it; heart as sensi
tive to oppression and degradation
in the next street as IL they
were Iracticcd in Brazil or Japan; pen as
ready to expose and reproye the crimes
whereby wealth is amassed and luxury ID
enjoyed in our own country at this hour,
as il they had only been committed by
Turks or Pagans in Asia some centuries
ago. Such an editor, could one be found
or trained, need not expect to lead an easy,
indolent or wholly joyous life-to be
blessed by archbishops or followed by APP
proving shouts of seendant-mai iorities
but he might find some recompense foi
their loss in the calm verdict ofan APPROX.
ing conscience; and the tears Of the despis
ed and friendless. preserved from utter des.
pair by his efforts and remonstrances,
might freshen for season the daisies that
bloomed above his grave.
This closing paragraph or my address
might call forth from the sordid syeophant
of wealth amassed in our own territory b.
crime and oppression, condemnation, and
assign it's anthor To the ranks OF those un.
safe to lead in public thought, were it not
that the quotation marks will show
that lay no claim to its paternity. IL
was the closing sentences OF a speech deliv
cred by man who had but few peers and
no superior in his chosen vocation; man
who accomplished more in his day in
moulding public opinion than any other
man OF his generation, and whose weekly
Tribune. next TO the family Bible was au
thority In hundred thousand American
homes. They are the words OF Horace
Greeley whose name and memory will live
until the esening stars shall fade
away. The proceedings OF our last
annual meeting recently distributed
to you all, carried with it GER
tain views oil mine as to the duty OF Dako-
ta press toward it's agricultural patrons
and the obligation It was under to protect
that one great and overshadowing factor
in Dakota's growth and development. as
it must also be her continued prosperity,
il there be any in store for her, and to ex
pose and condemn the crimes whereby
wealth was being rapidly and largely nc
quired by means and acts as indefensible
as those OF highwayman, and used to
furthur oppress, instead OF affording relie
to agricultural people and interests. My
views and recommendations referred to
were extensively published and read
at the time, and l observed with
great interest their reception by the
press and the people; not that | had any
personal pride or ambition in the matter
Tor had none; but because Ill fclt and from
my heart sincerely believed that the rec
concentrations / then made were OF para
mount Importance. and tho emergency for
action pressing; after year of observa
tion and reflection. during which time the
press and the people have been heard from
and largely for. instead OF against, i am con
tirmed in the views then presented, and re-
new mcst emphatically the recommends
tions then made; and ! congratulate you
all in the abundant evidences in
many parts OF the territory, that the
people are preparing for an organ
ized movement to strike at the
root Of the evils which ad vised the editors
OF Dakota to join in denouncing. Ladies
and gentlemen OF the association, appre
ciatlng as do most painfully the want oil
those endowments either by nature, educa
tion or opportunity. TO adorn with useful.
ness the position with which you have
twice honored me. am conscious never
theless of having taken deep and
abiding interest in the infant IA