The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1886-07-01

ton as we may with unanimity recon.
mend. There are many other suggestions
that crowd upon me for place in this 'ad
dress but neither time nor space will per.
NIT me to crafty my inclinat ton in that
direction much farther. IS. IL
A nine column poster in town that will
support but a five column newspaper is q,
poor investment. An attempt to ape met
ropolitan airs not only incurs greater ex-
pense but it curtaiis the receipts. ,Adyer-
tlsers seeing large amount OF patent
medicine ads and other dead matter, will
invariably want a half page for the price
OF o column, which proposal the publisher
under the circumstances, is too often com.
PEELED to accept. Keep your space dowr
to limit that Is actually needed and then
you and not your patrons can name the
advertising rates. Remember that a paper
is like every thing else-the wider tits spread
the thinner it gets. Advertisements should
be kept changed with the seasons. Don't
advertise for straw hats in January nor
Tor arctic shoes in July, such neglect looks
badly for our climate to foreign readers,
and is calculated to disgust the advertiser
VINO undoubtedly is not getting the " orth
OF his money. With well conducted local
and editorial department limited amount
OF advertising space will always demand a
premium. .{33ll = 81 Il
mo other public teacher lives SO wholly
in the present as the editor; and the noblest
afiirmatlone OF unpopular truth-the most.
selt-saeriticlng defiance OF a base and selfish
public sentiment that regards only the
most sordid ends, and values every utter.
ance solely ns it tends to preserve quiet and
contentment, while the dollars fali jineling
into the land jobber 8 vault and the nliser's
bag-can but be noted in their day, and
with their day forgotten. It is too often
his cue to utter silken and smooth sayings,
to condemn vice SO as not to interfere with
the pleasures or alarm the consciences OF
the vicious-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 the ninteenth century
may glide through life respectable and in
ease, and lie down to his long rest with
the non-achievements OF his life emblaz-
oned on the very whitest marble, surmount-
ing and clarifying his dust -
There Is o different and sterner path
I know not whether there is any now
qualified to tread i'll am not sure that
even one has ever followed it implicitly,
in view OF the certain meagreness OF its
temporal rewards and the haste wherewith
any fame acquired to sphere so thorough.
ly ephemeral as the editors must be
shrouded by the dark waters OF obliv-,
ion. The path demands an ear ever
open to the plants OF the wro nged and
the suffering, though they can never re-
pay advocacy. and those VIII o support
newspapers will be annoyed and Oft
en- exposed by il; a heart as sensi-
tive to oppression and degradation
in the next street as il they
were practiced in Brazil or japan; a pen as
ready to expose and reprove the crimes
whereby wealth is amassed md luxury is,
enjoyed in our own country ut 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 nrclbishops or followed by ap.y
proving shouts OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
but he might find some 3recompense for
their loss in the calm verdict ofan APPROX
Ing consciencs; and the tears OF the despis.
Ell and fr1endless, preserved from utter des-
pair by his efforts and remonstrances,
might ireshen for q season the daisies that
bloomed above his grave.'' 3ti5 q
This closing paragraph OF my address
might call forth from the sordid sycophant
oil wealth amassed in our own territory by
crime and oppression, condemnation, and.
assign its author to the ranks OF those un:,
sale to lead in public thought, were it not
that the quotation marks will show
that Ilay no claim to It's paternity. 1t
was the closing sentences 81 q speech deliv.j
cred by ainian who had bnt few peers and
no superior in his chosen vocation; o man
who accomplished more in his day in
moulding public opinion than any other
maj Of his generation. and whose weekly;
Tribune, next to tho family Bible, was au.
sthority in o hundred thousand American
homes. They are the words OF Horace
Greeley, whose name and menory viii live
mill the evening stars shall fade
away. The proceedings Of our last
annual meeting recently distributed
tain views Of mine as to tile duty OF Dako.3
tn press toward It's agricultural patrons,
and the obligation 1t was under to protect