The Bottineau courant., 1905-06-30

realize their Importance as they never
did before. The railroad press bureaus
have started in to educate the country
press, and to utilize it in explaining
to the farmers what a sting is con-
cealed in the venomous viper of gov
ernment rate regulation. They are
not only loading them up with ready
made editorials and interviews with
big shippers who with alarm.
but they are sending 81 railroad
weekly free Of charge to every coun-
try newspaper office Almost every
day the editor gets an important looks
ing communication on railroad
letter head, addressing him in fiat
tering terms as moulder of thought,
and enlisting his intelligent co opera
tion in the great work of lifting the
public mind f1om the slough of ig-
nolance and prejudice. The conduct
of the average editor in Minnesota is
extremity disappointing to the gentle
men who have undertaken his mental
direction. He is singularly unappre-
ciative Of the favors being showered.
He reads the literature, for good
country editor reads everything he
gets his hands on, and then he dips
his pen in red ink and sits down to
write 'sassy'' reply. serving notice
on the railroads that they have to get
in line with the president recon-
mendations and submit to regulation,
or worse will happen. Sometimes he
prints the railroad editorial or inter-
view, just to point out how foolish it
is, but more often he chLcks it in the
wastebasket with the nonchalance of a
born copy killer. The net results of
the railroad campaign among Mime
sofa papers are extremely slim. They
discourage an individual with only
! thirty or forty years expectancy of life,
but the corporation, with perpetual
franchise, will keep plugging away id
the serene consciousness that art is
long, and time is fleeting. The
country editor, evidently, is no easy
mark. That is not new discovery,
for certain classes of business men
have known it long time. The edi-
tor is a very busy man. The distrac-
tion of the postoffce, local politics and
other avocations, with the sad antics
of the gasoline engine, may engage his
attention 80 his editorial column fails
to attain George Harvey's standard.
He reads the papers and notes what he
reads. He travels, too, and every year
has an opportunity for pleasant and
educative trip to some quarters of the
country. If the baby is not too small.
he packs up, leaves the Office with the
devil, and spends week or more get
ting up to date in some new section OF
the country. He is usually an infor-
nation bureau for the village on every
subject but religion. Evidently, the
man or corporation that starts out to
educate the country editor has a con;
tract on his hands.
Bismarck Tribune: ''Farmer'' Wal.
lace, one of the best known old timers
in the state, who has been a faithful
employee of the state for a number OF
years as night custodian Of the capitol
building, has been given a semi-va
cation of several months and will
leave this week for Portland, where he
will assist the North Dakota force i1
entertaining visitors and giving them
information regarding North Dakota.
There is no man in the state better
qualified for this work than "Far
mer' Wallace. He has been here
for twenty-five years and knows every
section of the state. He was con
cerned with the first exhibits ever mad,
by Dakota at expositions, notably Al
New Orleans and afterward at tn,
Minnesota fair, where his good worl
brought Burleigh county the banner
for the best agricultural exhibit, ever
when the possibilities of Dakota as al
agricultural state were barely known
Afterwa1d he was in charge of the ex
hibit car of the Northern Pacific at tn,
Worlds Fair in Chicago in 1898
"Farmer' Wallace can do more to
ward interesting and informing tn,
crowd of visitors who want informa
ton regarding the state Of North Da
kota than tons of printed matter, ant
he will be of much assistance to Exc
cutive Commissioner Steele and hi
work will be Of great advantage to tn
state.
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| Hillsboro Banner: Here and Their
and everywhere are to be found tn
man and the woman who ''never hav
time. They would read good books
if they had the time. They woul,
visit the sick and the needy. but some
how they have not the time. The
would call on their friends, cultivat
! good fellowship and add to the com
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