The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-07-09

ton as we may with unanimity recon.
mend. There are many other suggestions
that crowd upon me for place in this ad.
dress hut neither time nor space vii, per.
mt Inc to gratify my inclination in that
direction much farther.
nine column poster in town that will
support but Il five column newspaper is a
poor investment. An attempt to ape met
ropniltan airs not only incurS grea ter ey.
pense but it curtails the receipts Adver-
Users seeing a large amount OF patent
medicine ads and other dead matter, will
invariably want half page for the price
OF colnmn, which proposal. the publisher
under the circumstances is too often com.
PEELED to accept. Keep your space dowr
to u limit that Is actually needed and then
you and not your patrons can name the
advertising rates. Remember that pape,
is like every thing else-the wider tbs sprea d
the thinner it gets. Advertisements should
be kept changed with the seasons. Don t
advertise for straw hats in January no.
Tor arctic shoes in July. such neglect looks
badly for our climate to foreign readers.
and is calculn ted to disgust the advertiser
who undoubtedly is not getting the worth
OF ms money. With a well conducted local
ana editorial departments Il limited amount
oil advertising space will always demand n
premium.
NO other public teacher lives so wholly
IN the present as the editor; and the noblest
aiiirmations OF unpopular truth the m os {
sei's;lcrlhclns defiance oil u base and selfish
public sentiment that regards only the
most sordid ends, and values every utter.
ance solely rs it tends to preserve quiet and
contentment, while the dollars fall jinging
into the land -jobber's vault and the miser q
bas-can but be noted in their dav, and
with their day forgotten. 1t is too often
his cue to utter silken and smooth savings,
to condemn vice so as not to interfere with
the pleasures or alarm the conscences of
the vlclous-to commend and glorify labor
without attempting to expose or repress
any OF the gainful contrivances by
which labor is plundered and
DEGRADED. Thus sliding dexterously
between somewhere and nowhere.
the able editor OF tho ninteentll century
may glide through life respectable and in
ease, and lie down to his long rest with
the achievements of his lie emblaz.
oned on the very whitest marble, surmount-
ing and goriiyng his dust.
There is different and sterner path
l know not whether there is any now
qualified to tread it--l am not sure that
even one has ever followed it implicitly,
IN view OF the certain mcagreness of its
temporal rewards and the haste wherewth
any iame acquired to sphere so thorough
iy ephemeral rs the editors must he
shrouded by the dark waters OF obliv-
ion. The path demands an ear ever
open to the plants of the wrotsed and
the suffering, though they can never re.
pay advocacy, and those who support
newspapers will be annoyed and oft-
Ell exposed by it; heart as sensi-
tive to oppression and degradation
III the next street as il they
were practiced in Brazil or Japan; a pen as
ready TO expose and rcproye the crimes
whereby wealth is amassed and Injury is
enjoyed in our own country at this hour,
as If 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 rie-to he
blessed by archbishops or followed by APP
proving shouts Of ACCOMPLISHMENTS les:
nut ne might find some rccompense for
their loss in the calm verdict of an approv-
iut conscience; and the tears of the despis-
ed and riendless, preserved from utter ,ies-
pair by his efforts and rcmonstrances,
might rcshen for a season the daisies that
blooued above his grave"
This closing paragraph o. my address
might call forth from the soriid sycophant
OF wealth amassed in our own territory by
crime and oppression, condemnation and
assign its author to the ranks OF those un.
safe TO lead in public thought. were it not
that n" quotation marks will show
that lay no claim to its paternity 1t
was the closing sentences Of "A speech deliv-
cred by a 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 su-
thority in n hundred thousand American
homes. They are the words of Horace
Greeley, whose name and memory will live
rnt'l the evening stars shall fade
away. The proceedings of our last
ANITA! meeting recently distributed
to you all, carried with it GER
tain views OF mine az to the duty OF Dako-
ia press toward its agricultural patrons,
and the obligation it was under to protect