Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1893-07-06
Editors Eagerly Eat.
GRAND BANQUET TENpERED THE
MISSOURI NEWSPAPER MEN
IN CHICAGO.
r. N. Whites Response to the Toast.
''Benefits From Press Ass0cia.
tions'- Mexico People
In Chicago.
Editorial Correspondence of the Ledger

MECCA HOTEL, CHICAGO, June
2S.-The banquet given at the Mis-
souri, Building yesterday by the
Worlds Fair Commission TO the
Missouri editors and their friends
was a success. Among those pres
ent from Mexico were Miss Belle
Morris, Mrs. G. B. Macfarlane, Miss
Annie Spence. Miss Matte Sui
linger, Mr.. and Mrs. D. A. McMil-
Ian, Mr.. and Mrs. Upham and Mr..
and Mrs. Bob White. The pro-
gramme of exercises, interspersed
with music, was as follows:
Address of welcome, Charles w.
Green, member of the State Com
mission.
Response, J. c. Kerby, president
of Press Association.
Address-"The Commonwealth of
Missouri Senator Cochran.
Address - "Railroads and the
Press" w. c. Brown, General Man.
ager Burlington Route.
Address 1.-THE Young Men of
Missouri" w. C. Cowherd, mayor
of Kansas City.
Address-''Benefits From Press
Associations" R. NJ. White, editor
of the Mexico LEDGER.
Address-"The Press and its Mis-
sion," Perry S. RAIDER, editor of the
Brunswicker.
An elegant luncheon, served on the
verandas at the building, was then
enjoyed by all present. Mr.. White,
of the LEDGER, after a few prelim-
mary remarks, responded as follows
to his toast:
BENEFITS FROM PRESS ASSOCIATIONS.
Mr., Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen
1t would be impossible for me on
this occasion to present to you the
many and varied benefits which |
think grow directly and Indirectly
out of Press Associations, state and
national, aid l shall only refer to
few points which may interest some
of you l am a believer in organi-
cation. To succeed you must be or
ganized, no matter what line of bus
mess you are in. a large per cent
of all professions and trades have al
ways been organized and to that ex-
tent showed their superiority over
the workers of the press who, up to
within a few years, neither organized
themselves nor their private business
methods, resources or plans, if they
had any. Each editor (I speak now
of us little fellows from the country
fought the fight of faith single hand
ed (and faith sandwiched with cord
wood is about all the pay he got. }
There were no Press Associations,
no sociability, no interchange of
ideas, no stimulating of each other
to better and nobler work, no COM
parison of thought, prices or meth
DDS. One editor was getting 500 a
year cash while another was getting
ten dollars in whetstones and hound
pups for the same space in paper
with the same circulation. One was
paying 81 a quire cash for patents
while the man in the next town paid
10 cents a quire in wind. Since the
days Of Press Associations most
papers are, and all should be home
print. One editor made his SUBJ
scribers pay 81 per year in advance
while another in the same town never
made his pay at all and only charged
81, so when he lost years SUBJ
seription he lost only 81 instead Of
50. Some editors traded advertising
for sugar, turnips, rails, wood, hoop
skirts, patent medicine, lottery tick
cts or anything else, Oh! Lord.
But it is not necessary to go further