The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-15
THE DAILY IS THE BEST.
AN AFFIRMATION OF THE
 NEWSPAPER BY AN EXPERT.

Ask the American to give up his daily paper and he will answer that he had rather give up almost every thing else. Try to take 1t from him an dsee what happens to you.
 Next to his life. his liberty and his loved ones he values his newspaper. It is to him both luxury and necessity. He is slave to 1t, He is born with it. He is raised on it, and he clings to it until old age benumbs his facul- ties-and even then he will grope for it. So thoroughly has it become ro0ted in his affections.
 Take it from him and you stir up a tempest of resentment. He will fight you to get 1t back, for he reveres it almost as much as he does the Con- stitutoin of the Republic.
 Take the Americans newspaper from him and you make him restless and morbid and destroy his continuity of thought and hfe's events. Deprive him of it and you take that for which you can offer no substitute-something for which there is no substitute. Let me ask you, as you read this ar- ticle, what in your opinion can take ; the place of your favorite daily paper? i You will answer me as I answered another questioner: Absolutely noth- ing. It has no understudy."
 And it doesn't make any difference what your environment, your location, your class, your creed or your condi- +ion r7ayy hax,o,, bova 1uo11r lontTiOo for your daily paper and you'll get it if you have to beg it.
 Look about you when on your way to business in the morning-if you can spare the time to look up form your paper-and you will see that nearly every man and woman within view is as deeply absorbed as you in the col umns of his or her favorite newspaper. People who are supposed to make every penny count - the tin-bucket brigade, as you know them-nearly all have newspapers in their hands, and those who haven't look sidewise at the sheets of this nearest neighbors. The passenger who abandons his paper sees it snapped up on the in stant by some one who has restlessly sat without one. And countless thou sands who would prefer to walk to business on clear, crisp mornings, ride so that they may read.
 There's nothing like it. The daily paper is life, spirits and vitality to this nation. It Is absolutely necessary to the nations welfare and happiness and riceless to the individual.
 The days life and thought begin with the morning paper, when the mind is refreshed and clear and sharp. No well-regulated American home begins the day right if that newspaper fails to come. If it is lacking the day begins with a disappointment
 Your American is irritable and dis consulate. He wants his paper. Moth ing else will satisfy him. He will brave | a storm to get 1t, and when he gets it he quiets down and becomes rational. | You know how 1t is, Your morn ing paper has been missing on several occasions and you have frowned-some of you have sworn--and you were Rot made happy until your fingers clutched | the cracking sheet and your eyes glanced over the familiar front page. i Then you lost pourself; you didn't care what happened; you had pour paper ! and 1t was enough; your soul was sat- isfied, your day was really begun. This feeling isn't confined to men on ! their way to business. The servant reads the paper before she arouses the 1 family. If only you could see them all you would find untold thousands of househmaids seated in the kitchen at 6 o'clock in the morning reading the newspaper. You would see lfmitless thousands of clerks, shop girls, sales women and factory girls seated at borading-house tables eating breakfast with the paper propped up against the sugar bowl or the vinegar cruet.
 This is the daily newspaper I'm talk l ing about Nothing in the world en- joys such persistent and clamorous pop ularity.
 1 The broker grabs for it before he thinks of breakfast. The merchant has it in hand before he reaches the break ] it ought to be, he will bolt his break
 fast and rush to the corner where one
 is to be had.
 The housewife retires with her copy | to the living rooms as soon as her
 liege lord departs, and she reads every | thing in ever ycolumn, even to the
 want adds.
 The children want to SC the paper l before they leave for school, and they look over it with mamma. So go where
 you will, in any community in this ac tive, thinging, educated nation, anC
 you'll find the daily paper the undis- 1 puted guide to American daily life. Now
 what else in the world will create suct
 conflict of emotion? What other kint | of publication has such keen griI
 upon the hearts of the American peo. 1 pie? What other kind of publication
 exists that the public cannot do with.
 out?
 There isn't any. There are other pub
 lications which the people like in tht
 cool of the evening or when a cheerJ
 fire is burning in the grate and the
 mind loves to wander in the realm ot fiction, but when that time arrives tho newspaper has been devoured and it; contents are in process of digestion Nothing can satisfy the mind in it. native state like the newspaper. It is the mouthpiece of the universe; it re-
 cords the pulse beats of all nations I