The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-08-27
IN JoURw~~s

in a labored editorial efFort 70 FeaSs
existence of a ournal is not suat
upon any one persons connecti sada
a paper once built up thronoh Ia
ergy and genius of one man.. 'e@
style and vigor, gathering bpeCQ
through years of indefatieabIo out b
corps OF workers, correspon5or sp
steadfast subscribers, will live "
no matter who succeeds to the nioa'
the one whose individualitv pptaGa
responsible for the position il 1as Va
up to time of the change. N''R
This may be plausible for q
argument, but to the great clsa,
newspaper readers there vii, T1'%
questions of doubt if there Arc S&
exceptions. "S
True, the New York Tribune
alive, but no one pretends to %
Greely's Tribune, nor has it ! MO- a'
of its Old readers still with it W.
Greedy left it, it's old subsuriho, "1 a
not renew their subscriptions, bnt .'
about for other journals in who's. y
umns they breathed the inspi,ars
individual characteristics,
VIM. Lloyd Garrison published =.
Liberator, but no one felt compaton,4
keep it alive after he had carried j..
to be a power in the land through ~
secution and riot. 1t died when :
quit it.
The old Indianapolis Sun sboDs h.
dimly after the incisive pen Of Jana
Buchanan was withdrawn from ia n
torial columns. Kate Fields Wasbn,
ton has died. None but Kate Eai
could sustain it in its originality si
sparkling terseness of dealing win
public affairs.
VINO hears of the Burlington Hsvt
eye since Bob Burdette and FrankH Al
ton left it? 1t lives yet as an obgnr
local newsgatherer, but that is all
The Chicago Times, after its foundg
WILDER F. Story, left it, never paid n
other dividend, and has now gone ont
of existence.
What more is heard of that as
great journal, the Toledo Blade, since
Nasby's death2 True, it has a circua
ton, but as for being a factor in Weld
ing public sentiment it is never heard
of. What became of Bill Nyes paper
after he left it and turned his talent
into other channels? What influence
has M Quad's connection or disooals>
had upon the Detroit Free PresH
Who reads the Chicago Tribune With.
out thinking of the MassilonisN@hind
it, Joseph Medill9 Or the New IuE
Sun, of Chas. A. Dana? Who heaSd
Plymouth Pulpit since B9echers death
How long would Pomeroy's AdVas
Thought run without Brick PomegI
pen7 They all might run; they would
have a value for some purposes. IlH
are plenty of pieces of hors flesh worn
$50, 900 that make good draft horsa
roadsters, but their value is not VhaI
it was before emasculation. ShaF
vile, Ind, once had a paper, that .
long as it was run by it's founder a
a power and influence in count! aa
district politics, but when the ohS
holders got control and squeezed ~
editor out, emasculating its edlotA
page, it soon came to naught andRN
mistake not, expired. How many y
those who for ten or fifteen years nS"
been steadily renewing would '8''
again for the old Sentinel If CoL Nv
toms name were taken from its nS
head?
What befell the Chicago EIP@
after Col. Heath left it3 From %"
it dwindled to less than 5000.
How long would the Peoples Is|
Paper of Atlanta be heard OF He
Watson's name was disconnected w,
ii? or the Representative Without
nelly9 So the Coming Nation, nOD,
ter what the causes behind its cDIg
will have a falling off sufficient W.
isfy the most exacting as to wnS'"
ton individuality bears to ne"SP
and should Mr.. Wayland starr
ninety five per cent Of those
Coming Nation lists of a monsT%
would in six months be back WInI
OF course 80 long as the ComlngN
is kept up to a strong STANDARD ~
live, a great portion of it's OLD ~
will not entirely d 3sert it, but 'u'f
fishers will often realiz', when op,
their daily mail, that Waylana
on the paper.
Look down the line OF AIDE"
journals whose il fuence have y.
important factors in changing ?
sentiment, and we challenge
stance that is not traceable TO ID'