Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1898-03-17
COUNTRY WEEKLlES
The Loud BiIl's Object De-
feated-Diminished DIFF.
fusion Of Importance.
The Rural Editor, His Attri-
butes and the Country
Paper.
Chas. Hoffman Says Miners
are Dying Like Flies at
Dawson City.

WAsH1NGToN, d. O., March 15;-By
three days Of hard hand to hand tight
ing we killed the notorious Loud bill"
1t was done by an almost solid vote OF
democrats, populsts and silver repub-
licans, together with few republicans
who. living in rural districts, could not
lie whipped into the support Of this op.
pressive measure, which in it's effect
was deleterious to free press. 1t WAS
q dlstinctively anti-republican victory,
bat could not have been won save for
the weakening Of republican discipline.
The truth Is certain republican con-
gressnen are beginning to bolt the
leaders and heed the people.
The great objection to this bill is that
it is detrimental to newspapers and d.
minishes the diffusion OF information.
I have such implicit faith IN the PROPOSE
tlou that truth is mighty and will pre-
vail that we're I as rich as John d.
Rockefeller I would publish a popular
edition of Jeffersons works and put a
copy into the hands OF every voter in
the United States.
One of the most eminent OF American
preachers SAID, I'VE must educate, we
must educate, or we must perish"
Thomas jefferson, the modern Solo
mon, declared that he would rather live
in country with newspapers but with.
out a government than in country
with a government but without news
papers. Newspapers are great dlssemln a.
tors OF information. The mammoth met
ropolitan papers have vast circulatlons
and are splendid educators, but after all
perhaps ten persons read a country
weekly where one reads metropolitan
paler.
THE COUNTRY EDITOR.
Having once been q country editor
myself, entertain most kindly feel
ing for my old confreres. I am willing
to make affidavit that the IL months I
spent editing rural journal we're the
mostibeneHciul of my life to myself and
perhaps to others. am proud to have
belonged to the editorial guild. I AND
unalterat.ly opposed to anything that
will iujure the country editor, curtail
bis profits, circumscrlbe his usefulness
or place an additional thorn IN his path.
way.
The rural edltor-God bless hlm-is
the most persistent of teachers. Like
charity, as described by st. Paul in the
thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians,
be ''suffereth long and Is kind" which
cannot be seid of the men who got up
this bill. He 'envieth not" IN which
be 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 puffed up." in which
be does not resemble a good many OF
us. He "does not behave himself un.
seemly, seeketh not his own, ls not
easily provoked. In this last respect
be does not at all resemble my friend
from California (Mr. Loud).
he is the pack horse of every CON-
munity the promoter OF every:laudable
enterprise, the worst underpaid laborer
in the vineyard.
Counting bis space as his capital, he
gives more to charity. his means con-
sidered, than any other member OF So
clety. He is power in politics, pillar
of the church. leader in the crusade
for better morals.
he is pre-eminently the friend OF
humanity. Line upon line, paragraph
upon paragraph. day by day, he is em.
balmlng in cold type the facts from
which the Heroditus, Tacitus, Slsmondi
or Mscsulay Of the future will write the
history OF times.
He joyfully chronicles our advent into
this world. briefly notes our uprislngs
and down sittings and sorrowfully re-
cords our exit from thie vale Of tears.
As creator OF beauty he double dis
counts Nine. Ayres, who processes to
increase feminine pulchritude only in
particular instances, while the country
editor. exercising plensry power, besuti-
fies impsrtlslly all women whose names
appear in bis columns. By touch Of
his msgician's wand he converts paste
into diamonds sparkling upon beauty e
neck, and with ekill OF which ancient
and ambitious slchemists only dreamed
and with politeness which Cheterfeld
might have envied, he transmutes brass
trinkets into golden jewels when worn