The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1899-08-26
The Country Editor.

Hon. Camp Clark, congressman
lrom Missouri, made a speech in
opposition to the passage OF the
Loud bill. He said in part:
The great objection 20 this bill,'' he
said, 4" is that it is detrimental to newspapers
and diminishes the diffusion of information.
Having once been country editor myself,
! entertain most kindly feeling for my old
confreres. l. am willing to make affidavit
that the eleven months l spent editing a
rural journal the most beneficial to
myself and perhaps to Others. l am proud
40 have belonged to the editorial guild
unalterably opposed to anything that
will injare the country editor, cur,ail his
profits, Gil cunscribe his usefulness, or place
an additional thorn in his pathway. The
rural editor-God bless him-is the most
persistent of teachers. Like charity as deS-
cribed by St. Paul in the thirteenth chapter
of the First Corinthians. he 'suffereth long
and is kind he envieth not, vaunteth not
himself, is not pulled up; doth not behave
himself unseemly; sceketh not his own; is not
easily provoked, thnkc,h evil; rejoiceth
not in iniquity, but rejoceth in TRUTH
beareth all things, hopeth all things, en-
dureth all things.
'sHe is the packhorse Of every commu-
nifty, the promoter of every laudable enter
prise, the worst underpaid laborer in the
vineyard. Counting his space as his capital,
nc gives more to charity, his means con-
sidcrcd, than any other member of society
ale is a power in politics, a pillar of the
church, a leader in the crusade to- better
morals He is prc-eminentiy the friend OF
humanity. Line upon line. paragraph upon
paragraph, day by day, he is cmbalnlnS In
cold type the facts from which the Hero
dotus, Tacitus, Sismondi or Macaulay of the
future will write the history of times.
lie fully chronicles advent into the
world, briefly notes our uprisings and down
sittings and Sorrowfully records our exit.
AS creator of beauty he doubly dis
counts Mime. Ayres, who processes to in
crease feminine pulchritude only in Parti-
GUAR instances, while the country editor,
exercising plenary power, beauties impair
italy ali women whose names appear in his
columns. by touch of his magician's wand
ne converts paste into diamonds gls'enine,
upon beauty's neck, and with skill of
which ancient and ambitious alchcmlstS
only dreamed, md. with politcness which
Chesterfield might have enyied, he trans
1nuics brass trinkcts into golden jewels
when worn by members of u subscriber 5
family. He is the greatest and most lnge-
nous OF manufacturers, for while others
Manufacture pcrishablc stuits. he is engaged
IN manufacturing immortal statesmen out OF
industry which even the Dinglcy tariff can
not protect He is
TO virtues very kind.
And to faults little blind.
1--WE are all more lcss-Generally
more--his handwork, and the creature
should not be ungrateful to his creator
Without his generous and enthusiastic labors
most of US would never have been here; and,
when he tires of us, will return TO pri-
varc life amid rural scenes propuons for
secret n1editations and silent prayer. Work
ing night and day during the campaign,
comes tor the distribution of the loavcs and
hshes-now vulgarly called 'Pie'-by some
strange lapse OF memory he rs generally
forgotten.