The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-03
FOR THE COUNTRY EDITOR.
CHlMP CLARK MAKES AN ENTHUsI-
lSTIC APPEAL.

AbTIC NJ
NE rs the ..PacE Horse or Every Conmunity.D
Says the Congressman. 'tbe Wernt Under-
paid Lnberer In the viroyarh, > HeO uGht
ts Have the Second Glass Mal Privilege.
WARRINGTON, March 2.-The Loud second
class mail matter bill was discussed further in
the House to-day, the principal feature OF the
session being Champ Clark's speech in oppose
ton, under the form OF a plea for extension
rather than a restriction Of the rights and prfvi-
loges granted to the country editor. A vote
will be taken on tho bill tomorrow at 4 o'clock,
after 1t shall have been considered under the
five.minute rule for amendment.
When the bill was taken up.Mr. Boil Of Colo
RADIO addressed the House against 1t. He was
of the opinion that II Congress would compel
railroad companies to carry mail Mt the Same
rates they served transportation to the public.
there would be no deficit in the postal revenues.
Mr.. Simpson of Kansas followed in q speech
along the SAME lines.
Champ Clark of Missouri followed in a char
acteristic plea for the country editor" in o
speech against the bill.
1.-The great objection to;this BILL" he said. us
that 1t ia detrimental to newspapers and dimin-
ishes tho diffusion Of information. Having
once been a country editor myself, I entertain
q most kindly feeling for my old confreres. 1
am willing to make affidavit that tho steven
months 1 spent editing a rural journal were tho
most beneficial Of my life to myself and perhaps
to others. l am proud to have belonged to the
editorial guild. I am unnlterably opposed to
anything that will iniure the country editor.
curtail his profits, circumscribc his usefulness,
or place an additional thorn in his pathway.
The rural cditor-God bless hints tho most
persistent OF teachers. Like charity as de-
seribed by Ct. Paul in the thirteenth chapter Of
MA l.. sa, a-,,Nl 1.-.- ..-l Il
kind; he envicth not himself. is not pulled up;
doth not behave himself unsecmly;. seekcth
e eUf ms se G%in . h mot f In inid RfHyofSs but 1 reioieeth mo io
truth; bearcth all things, hopeth all things. en-
durcth all things.'.
tho promoter OF every laudsble enterprise. the
worst underpaid laborer In the vineyard. Count
,Rs h,s i his means ss ss eo SSRfdatal; ne th s,no any %U oths Co
member OF society; He is u power in politics. a
pillar of:the CHURCH, a leader in the cru SADIE for
better morals. He 10 pre.eminently the friend
of humanity. Line upon line, paragraph upon
paragraph. day. by day, he is e~mbalmin; In cold
tns, Sismondi, or Macaulay Of the future win
write the history of our times. lie fully chroni-
cles our advent int the world, briefly notes our
uprisings and our donwsittings, and sorrowfully
records our exit,
As a creator of beauty he double discounts
nine pulchritude only in particular instances,
while the country editor. exercising plenary
power, beauties immpartially all women whose
his maEician's wand he converts paste into die-
monds glistening uron, ~beauty's neck, and with
lists only'dreamed, and with q spoliteness which
Chesterfield might have envied. he transnutes
BY members of = subscribers family GlSeH He is
the greatest and most ingenious OF manufac-
turers, for while others manufacture perishable
stutfs, he is engaged in manufacturing immor.
tai statesmen out OF raw sometimes very raw
an industry which even the Ding
ley tariff cannot project. He Is
ssTn nnr OF z n q vary bind
And to our faults n little. blind.
."Ne arc all more or less generally moro
his hand work, and the creature should not be
GUS and enthusiastic labors most of us would
never have been here; and, when he tires OF us,
rural scenes propitious for secret meditation
and, silent prayer. Working night and day
during the .campaign. when the election, is
Of the loaves and fishes-now ~vulgarly called
'Pie-by some strange lapse Of memory he Is
:. Mr.. Clark dropped into history for a furtheril-
of his subject and referred to Horace
.SlI;y 81 letter to William lam H. Seward in 1891;
serted their colors and Went bag and baggage. |
enemy. but the country wceklies with rare ex.
captions stood by the cause Of Bryan and Democ-
superb courage and commendable self-abnega-
ton. thereby vindicating the patriotism. wis
dom and independence of the American press.
Cpoi 'HAo oo'pS ouhti uito We Aiuob uo- |
pend largely for honest, courageous. patriotic
press service in the campaicn now impending
side OF the House we would be act
with unwisdom to deprive him of any of his
prerogatiyes. The Loud bill might not unjustly
be entitled AN act to diminish tho supply Of
antf.Republican campaign literature Then
1t would be true to name. Republicans, having
Of the great metropolitan papers, |
may find some excuse for supporting q measure
which will squelch the country weeklies, but
certainly Democrats, Populists and free silver
cannot afford to do SO unless they
are meditating political suicide"
The discussion was continued by Messrs.
Bromwell, Brown. and Lentz of Ohio, the first
for the bill and the other two against it. Mr..
LentZ vigorously. denied the assertion that
trash" correctly characterized tho bulk of the
passing:throughthe mailsat second class
rates.. He asserted that the Government re-
ceived three times over in flrst-classp postage tho
money il expended in carrying second-class mat
ter and exclaimed:
''lf that be the result of the transmission of
second class matter. l say let there be more
trash going through the mails"
Tho real cause Of the deficit in postal rove
nuCs. hescontendod, was the payment Of exorbi-
tant rates to railroad companies for transporta-
lion.
Mr.. Ogden Of observation-disclosures
ot the bill in a speech that greatly amused the
House by Its honely hits at the members who
so much concern about the denial or
of the rights of tho country editor.
The House at 6:20 o'clock adjourned.