The broad ax., 1898-06-04
CHAMP CLARK or THE
COUNTRY PRESS

- srAA&E O1~@e - =
I'D elective speech against that
measnre. His eulogy On the eOan-
ny pres gi1 i've - history, and
rs not ben eqnafied N the halls
Of Congnens since the dsys Of
Proctor KnOtt, When be immortal
ized himself over Duluth. We
prinf belOg What be ssid Of the
pres<
@The main objection 70 this b1l
b that Il b detrimental 20 news
papers and dininishs the diffusion
Of information
One Of the very greatest Of
Amencsa preachers says, We
must edneste, We must educate,
~ Ne muSt perish" Thomas yef-
fersoa, the modern Solomon, de-
elsred that he would rather live IN
. country With newspapers but
vithGut . government than in q
ecuntFySifhs government bEt with
out Newspaper. Henry Nv, - the
high water marx Of the prosperity
Of this people, expressed the hope
that every family IN France might
become sufficiently veil 10 do 70
have meat for It's Christmas din
ner.
IL / had one wish, and only one,
that could be granted, for the hap
piness Of the American people and
the peTpetuity of the Republic, it
would be that every American
voter should be 20 veil educated
that be could read bis ballot or
election day. lAPPlause.l
Newspapers are great dissent
majors of information The man.
moth metropolitan newspapers with
their vast circulations are splendid
educators, but after all ten persons
read the little country weekly
where one reads . metropolitan
paper.
Having once been q country
editor myself, / entertain q most
kindly ceiling for my old coufreres.
/ am willing 70 make affidavit that
the eleven months 1 spent editing 3
rural Journal we're the most bene-
fcial OF my life to my1eIf, perhaps
70 Others. ] am proud TO have
belonged TO the editorial guild. /
am unAIterably opposed to any
thing that viii injure the country
editor, curtail his profits, circum-
scribe his usefulness, or place an
additional thorn In his pathway.
The rural editOr-God bless him
Ito the most persistent of teach
err. Like charity, - described
By St. Paul In the thirteenth chap
ter of the First Corinthians, be
"sufereth long and il kind, /" which
cannot be said of the men that got
mp this bill. @He enyieth not" In
which be does not resemble some
people over on the other side of the
House. "He Vaunteth not him.
self," In which be Is not unlike the
Leaders on the other side of the big
aisle. "He IL not pulled up" in
which be does not resemble q good
many Of Us. "He does not be-
have himself unseemly; seeketh not
his Own; il not easily provoked"
In this respect he does not at all
resemble my friend from Califor-
mia OR. LOud.) daughter. she
thinketh no evil" in which he is
vastly superior 70 q great many
of ~, "rejoiceth not in iniquity."
IN which he Is totally unlike the
Republicans (lsughter), "but re-
joiceth in the truth" which proves
that he Is cousin-german to Dem
ocrats. (Applause on the Demo
cratic side. HE beareth all
things, hopeth all things, endureth
al things" and in that respect be
isyery much in the predicament
of the minority on this side of the
House under the Reed rules.
(Laughter).
He . the pack horse Of every
community, the promoter of every
lsudable enterprise, the worst un-
derpaid labo-cr in the vineyard.
Counting bis space a. his capital,
he gives more to charity, bis means
considered, than any other members
Of society. He Is apower in politics,
= pillar Of the church, . leader in
the crusade for better morals. He
l. pre-eminently the friend of
humanity.
Line upon line, paragraph upon
paragraph, day BY day, he is en-
b.Hming in cold type the facts from
which the Herodotus, the Tacitus,
tbs Sismondi. or the Macaulay of