Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-03-10
Country Editors Doomed.

Country Editors Doomed.
Champ Clark, Of Missouri, made himself
solid with the country newspapers Of his
district during the debate on the Loud
postal bill. Much that he said bears the
imprint of truth. as all who have had ex-
perience in the running Of newspapers in
rural communities will readily admit, Mr..
Clark said:
"Having once been country editor my.
self, entertain most kindly feeling for
my old contreres. am willing to make
affidavit that the i months l spent edit
ing rural journal were the most bene.
fetal of my life to myself, perhaps to
others. l am proud to have belonged to
the editorial guild. lam unalterably op
posed to anything that will injure the
country editor, curtail his profits, circum-
scribe his usefulness, or place an add.
tional thorn in his pathway.
"The rural editor-God bless himl-is
the most persistant of teachers. Like
charity, as described by St. Paul in the
18th chapter Of First Corinthians, he sufl
ereth long and is kind which cannot be
said of the men that got up this bill. He
envieth not in which he does not resem.
BILE some people over on this side Of the
House. He vaunteth not himself il
which he is unlike the leaders on the
other side of the big aisle. He is moi
puffed up in which he does not resemble
a good many Of US. 'He does not behave
himself unseemly, secketh not his own,
is not easily provoked
SIN this last respect he does not at all
resemble my friend from California, Mr..
Loud. (Laughter) 'He thinketh no evil.
in which he is vastly superior to grea'
many ofus; 'rejoiceth not in iniquity but
rejoiceth in the truth. He beareth al
things, hopeth all things, endureth al
things,' and in that respect he is yer!
much in the predicament Of the minorit.
on this side Of the House under the Reed
rules. (Laughter.)
"He is the pack horse of every com.
munity, the promoter of every laudabl'
enterprise, the worst underpaid laborer IL
the vineyard. Counting his space as his
capital, he gives more to charity, his
means considered, than any other member
of society. He is power in politics,
pillar of the church, leader in the cru
sade for better morals. He is pre.emi
nently the friend of humanity.
"Line upon line, paragraph upon para
graph, day by day, he is embalming il
cold type the facts from which the Hero
dotus, the Tacitus, the Sismondi, or the
Macaulay of the fnture will write the
history of our times. Applause. )Hejoy
ously announces our advent into this
world, briefly records our uprisngs ano
our downsittings, and sorrowtully chroni.
cles our exit from this vale oftears.
"As creator of beauty, he double dis
counts Nine Aver, who undertakes to in
crease feminine pulchritude only in par
icular instances; but the country editor
in the exercise OF plenary power, ,mpaI.
tally beauties all women whose names
appear in his columns. daughter AN
,pplause.) By touch of his magician.
wand he converts paste into diamond
sparkling on beauty's neck, and with
skill of which ancient and ambitious al
chemists only dreamed, and with polite
ness which Chesterfield might have en-.
wed, he transmutes brass trinkets into
iewelry Of purest gold, when they appea
upon the breasts of the family of his sub.
scriber. (Laughter.)
"He is the greatest and most ingenious
of manufacturers, for while other manu-
facturers produce only perishable stuff.
he manufactures immortal statesmen ou'
Of raw, sometimes very raw material
(Laughter.) In his laudable industry n,
Dingley bill can protect him, and he NUT
work in composition with the pauper man.
tacturers Of Europe. (Laughter.)
"He is
To our virtues very kind
And to our faults little blind.
"We are all more or less, generally
more, his handiwork; and it does not be.
come the creature to injure the business
of his creator. Without his ingeniou.
generous and enthusiastic labors most OF
us would never have been here; and when
he tires of us we will retire to private life,
amid rural scenes propitious for secret
meditation and silent prayer. (Laughter.)
Working night and day during the cam.
paign, often without money and without
price, when the election is over and the
victory is won and the loaves and fishes
now vulgarly called pie, are to be distri.
buted, by some strange lapse of the hu-
man memory, he is generally forgotten.