The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1898-03-15


ers in Congress. The Loud pos
tai bill, a Republican measure,
was before the House. This is
bill directed against the country
newspapers and in favor of the
city papers. We are pleased to
state the bill was defeated. IT
is from the Congressional Record
of March End, we copy this able
speech. Mr.. Clark took for his
subject: 1.-THE Country Editor"
He spoke as follows
Newspapers are great dis
seminators of information. The
mammoth metropolitan papers
with their vast calculations are
splendid educators, but after all
ten persons read the little country
weekly where one reads q met
ropolitan paper.
Having once been q country
editor myself, l entertain a most
kindly feeling for my old confre-
res. l am willing to make aft
davit that the eleven months ]
spent editing rural journal
were the most beneficial of my
life to myself, perhaps to others.
[ am proud to have belonged to
the editorial guild. / am oppos-
ed to anything that will injure
the country editor, curtail his
profits, circumscribe his useful
ness, or place an additional thorn
in his pathway.
1.-The rural editor-God bless
him lis the most persistent of
teachers. Like charity, as de-
scribed by ST. Paul, in the 18th
chapter of the First Corinthians,
he 'suffereth long and is kind, "
which cannot be said of the man
that got up this bill. HE en-
vieth not" in which he does not
resemble some people over on
this side of the House. HE
vaunteth not himself" in which
he is unlike the leaders on the
other side of the big aisle. "He
is not pulled up" in which he
does not resemble a good many
of US. This is a blow against
the education of our people. If
had one wish, and only one, that
could be granted, for the hap
piness of the American people
and the perpetuity of the Re
public, it would be that every
American voter should be SO
well educated that he could read
his ballot on election day. Zap
plause.
HE thinketh no evil" in
which he is vastly superior to a
great many of us; "rejoiceth not
in iniquity," in which he is total
ly unlike the Republicans; "but
rejoiceth in the truth" which
proves that he is cousin german
to the Democrats. Applause on
the Democratic side. HE bear
eth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things" and in that
respect he is very much in the
predicament of the minority on
this side of the House under the
Reed rules. Laughter.
HE is the pack horse of every
community, the promoter of
every laudable enterprise, the
worst unpaid laborer in the vine
yard. Counting his space as his
capital, he gives more to charity,
his means considered, than any
other member of society. He is
a power in politics, pillar of
the church, leader in the cru
SADIE for better morals. He is
pre- eminently the friend of hum
anity.
Lime upon line, paragraph
upon paragraph, day by day, he
is embulming in cold type the
facts from which the Herodotus
the Tacltus, the Sismondi, or the
Macaulay of the future will write
the history of our times. lap
plause.] He joyously announces
our advent into this world
briefly records our, uprisings and
our downsittings, and sorrowful-
ly chronicles our exit from this
vale of tears.
"As a creator of beauty. he
double discounts Nine. Aver. who
undertakes to increase feminine
pulchritude only in particular in
stances; but the country editor.
IN the exercise of plenary power.
Impartially beauties all women
whose names appear in his col |
lmns. Laughter and applause ! |
ny a touch of his magician's
wand he converts paste into dia- |
nonds sparkling on beauty's
neck, and with the skill of which |
ancient and ambitious alchemists
only dreamed, and with the
ooliteness which Chesterfield
nIOht hauo aox,.ol -