The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1901-11-28
YANKEE NOTIONS.


crew suffered such hardships as mer
are not often called upon to endure
During that time they were dashed to
the rigging, without covering except
their shirts and drawers, wholly with
out food and constantly beaten by the
icy November seas. Three men from
shore made thrilling rescue at great
risk to themselves, while one of the
crew, in an effort to swim to land in
quest of help for his shipmateS, was
dashed high against the rocky cliffs
and his llfeless body was found torn
and broken. The story appeared in
the daily papers and was read careless
ly and without thrill of excitement;
but when such hairbreadth escapes
are described i'm books of fictitious
adventure we read them breathlesSly
and conjnre up in our vision the most
horrible pictures Of staring mariners,
with death in their eyes, battered by
the implacable waves or washed
against the beetling rocks, no help of
human hand to reach them or plant
ray of hope intheir despairing souls,
nothing but agony and ruin, until the
hero comes with superhuman effort
and snatches them into safety and
comfort under bright shining sun.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but not
nearly so impressive.
A stanch old republican farmer
friend dropped in for chat the other
day and in the course of conversation
remarked that he had never under
stood che true inwardness of the poll
cy of reciprocity until he read McKin-
ley's Buffalo speech in Halsted's Life
of Mckinley, obtained under our great
offer. In that speech the President
said:
Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth
of our wonderful industrial develop
ment under the domestic policy now
firmly established. What we produce
beyond our domestic consumption
must have a vent abroad. The excess
must be relieved through a foreign
outlet and we should sell everywhere
we can and buy wherever the buying
will enlarge our sales and productions
and thereby make greater de rand
for home labor. We should take
from our customers such of their pro-
ducts as we can use without harm to
our industries and labor.
This, commented our friend, is a
wise and helpful policy, calculated to
benefit the farmers and wage-earners
alike. 1t is easily comprehended
when the entire speech is read.
''But," we said, "you should have
known all that before, for we printed
McKinley's speech in full in our next
issue after it was delivered. -
EYES," he replied, "and / read it;
but that was in a paper while this is
In a book
1t was the case of the shipwreck
over again.
One CT our merchants, not much of
an advertiser, by the way, and there
fore a dealer of minor standing, ac-
cOsted us recently.
Say" he exclaimed, ''you ought
to print something in your paper
about people buying goods away from
home. They come to us when they
want favors but when they have cash
in hand they chase off every place for
goods and usually get stuck. Give it
to 'em about that"
''It people do not read the paper
any closer than you do,' we rejoined,
sit would be of no use to advise them
on that or any other subject"
"Why's that?"
"Why, we have time and again pub
lished just such articles as you sug-
gest, in our news columns and in the
editorial department. We know that
it has been productive of good, too. -
"Well, "he said complacently, 81
dom have time to read the papers
very carefully and did not notice it. y
He doubtless read the articles but
did not think. 1t was the shipwreck
case again.
If a man will advertise for black
cats at dollar each, or if he will an
nounce in small type and in the most
inconspicuous part of the paper that
he will sell sugar at AGENT POUND
to the first hundred corners, he will
find that though shipwreck stories and
reports of speeches may lack some.
what of being as impressive IN news
papers as in books, yet the great
masses Of the people read advertise
ments and look to them as reliable
guides to the market. Newspaper
readers would gain much if they
would read their papers in all
departments as thoughtfully as they
read the advertising columns, and ad.