Sistersville oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1896-1901, 1898-04-13
Champions the Cause OF the
Country Newspaper.
HE UTTERL SENTIMENTS
THAT the All the People Will lnaorse
Save Beggarly Ungrateful Politicians
He Also DenOunces the Loud Bill"

ly in the House of Representatives
in.opposition to the Loud Bill" a
measure inimical to the country
newspaper. Following is the speech
in part.
Newspapers are great dissem-
inators of information. The mani
moth metropolitan papers with their
vast circulation are splendid edu-
Gators, but after all ten persons read
the little country weekly where one
reads a metropolitan paper.
Having once been country edi-
tor myself, l entertain most kind
ly feeling for my old confreres. l
am willing to make affidavit that
the eleven months 1 spent editing a
rural journal were the most ben
efcial of my life to myself and per.
haps to others. I am proud to have
belonged to the editorial guild. l
am unalterably opposed to do any
hing that will injure the country
editor, curtail his profits, circum-
scribe his usefulness, or place an
: additional thorn in his pathway.
The rural editor - God bless
himl-is the most persistent of
teachers. Like charity, as de-
scribed by St. Paul in the thirteenth
chapter of the First Corinthians, he
(, ''suffereth long and is kind, which
cannot be said of the men that got
up this bill. "He envieth 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.
He does not behave himself I'M
seemingly; seeketh not his own; is
not easily provoked"
In this last respect be does not
at all resemble my friend from Cal
ifornia Mr.. Loud. !, Laughter.
"He thinketh no evil" in which he
is vastly superior to a great many
of US; "rejoiceth not in iniquity"
in which he is totally unlike the
republicans. Laughter but re-
joiceth in truth" which proves that
he is cousingermain to the demo
Gratis. Applause on the democratic
side. He beareth all things,
hopeth all things, endureth all
things" and in that respect he is
very much in the predicidament 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 I'M
derpaid laborer in the vineyard.
Counting his spa-e as his capital,
he gives NOR o charity, his means
considered, than any other member
of society. He is power in pol
itics, a pillar of the church, a leader
in the crusade for better morals.
He is prominently the friend of
humanity.
Line upon line, paragraph upon
paragraph, day by day he is ell
balming in cold type the facts from
which the Herodotus, the Tacitus,
the Sismondi, or the Maculay OF
the future will write the history Of
our times. Applause. He JOY
ously announces our advent into
this world, briefly records our ur-
rising and our downsittings. and
sorrowfully chronicles our exit from
this vale of tears.
AS creator of beauty he double
discounts Nine. Aver, who only
undertakes to increase feminine pull
chritude only in particular instan-
ces; hut the country editor, in the
exercise of plenary power, impair
TALLY beauties ali women whose
names appear in his columns.
Laughter and applause. By
touch of his magician's wand he
converts paste into diamonds spark
ling on beautys neck, and with a
skill OF which ancient and ambi-
tious alchemists only dreamed, and
with politness which Chesterfield
might have envied, he transmutes
brass trinkets into jewelry Of the
purest gold, when they appear on
the breasts of his subscribers.
Laughter.
'He is the greatest and most
ingenious of manufacturers. for