Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1907-11-22

am a great optimist, and have no
faith in and no regard for the man
who is not an optimist. The pessi-
mist is an execration upon the race
of Gods green earth.
at is pleasant to indulge In the
illusions of hope, we are told' anu
To me 1t is exceedingly pleasant TO
be able to indulge in retrospection'
and when / am blue, and when lie
seems as though 1t was Impossible
to forge ahead, open the pages OF
history. and / read the story of the
progress OF mankind and | review
that enormous army of human pc
ings. the countless multitudes OF
nations and peoples, stretching a.
long through the countless ages OF
the world, and l know that the
march has always been onward.
II know that it has been progress
from the beginning. ! believe II
there be anything that has been
blessing in the sight of God since
we were cast forth into the world
to earn our bread by the sweat OF
our brow, that one thing that IS
most pleasing to Him has been the
fact of mans progress.
"And this afternoon, ediors, ! am
going to take you on ride. On,
it is glorious ride-we wont get
there, but we are going to hitch our
chariot to a star, the exhiliration OF
the body is going to carry us on
and If that ride will just make you
think for one little moment l have
not talked in vain.
THAT thought may be In your
sanctum, and it may be while you
) are running the press, or 1t may pc
; while you are in the home, that
? glorious American institution
home.
So gentlemen of the pen, the
r ink and the scissors, come with me
t on a ride. And those scissors,
they are a mighty good thing, and
l would be the last one in the world
to take it out of the editorial sane
tum. 1t takes a big man to clip
s from his brother and reproduce 1t.
,, The small man is afraid to do 1t,
q but a big man knows it Is worth
Q while.
g What would we do without
those scissors? All history has
been cut. Those great debates
= the beginning of my friends profess
" sion in American history, wher
- those master intillects Douglass ant
- Lincoln at Freeport gave the worit
- their glorious debates, 1t was thu
= work of the scissors, 1t was thu
~ click, click of the scissors that pass
ed it on to the multitudes and al
= lowed you and l to read it today
% So we will put in with the pen an,
the ink, the scissors.
Now gentlemen, my intentio
this afternoon is to show you tina
oo you are in the army of progress an
that you cannot stand still, 70
re must go on. You are the serge
ra ants and the captains and the gene
,st rails of this army, and if you hes
7 tate long we are lost. l know thu
I the army must hesitate. | kno
n that it must break ranks and res
ve and for thousands of years in tn
~ history of the world there haV
aft been periods of rest, and in the PR
,ot gress of your profession, / am
fraid that we are there at the re
IL now. am not afraid that we al
H. there at the double bar, but we a.
of at the rest, and there is an obstac
/, In your progress. What is tn
rk obstacle?
err THAT obstacle is the advertiser
zen column. That is your obstacl
be- You may say to me, what do "
to know about It? l never run new
paper But l backed one. So
len know. And it failed. So l wou
of say to you that the advertising CT
we umn is not an insurmountable O
is stacle. Let us analyze 1t. What
len duces advertising to come to yo
nat columns? 1t is your circulate
Tho What makes your circulation?
is the people buying your pap'
err and do they buy ii, for the advt
ase tisements or do they buy 1t for t
IRE, matter that you have in it.
think that there is no doubt tn