The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-04-11
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IN spnefsss knows it come from the
| gfass roots, The lsbby, the biz rail
| road lawyers and that class of people
realize the power of the press, but
they hate it. I've heard them ak
about it and shake their heads n
say. TOO much power there The
press is more powerful than money.
This was not said in fattery, but
because he had seen on congressman 8
desks the heaps of country weeklies,
and he knew how closely they were
read. The smallest editorial para
graph tells the politician of the con
dition in hat papers community, for
he knows that it is put there because
the editor has gathered the idea from
some one whom he trusts as a leader,
and the politician knows approximate
ly who the leader is. So the country
editor often exerts a power of which
he knows little.
But politics is only a part Of the
country EDITORS life. The social at
fairs of the community are nearest TO
him. The proud father who brings
in a cigar with a notice OF the seventh
baby's arrival (why cigars and babies
should be associated in mems minds
/ never understood) the fruit farmer
who presents some fine Ben DAVIS
apples in the expectation that he will
get a notice, are but types. The ed
itor may have some doubts concern
ing the need of a seventh child in the
family of the proud father, and he
may not be particularly fond OF Ben
Davis apples, but he gives generous
notice because he knows that the
gifts were prompted by kind hearts
and that the givers are his friends.
When Joy comes to the household it
is Tut the workings of the heart 8
best impulses to desire that all should
share it. The news that princess OF
the family has, after many years of
waiting. welded a prosperous mer-
chant of the neighboriDg county,
brings the family into prominence ~
the home paper. Seldom in these
tusy times does the editor get a piece
of wedding cake, but nevertheless he
fails not to say that the bride is zone
of our loveliest young ladies and the
groom is worthy of the prize he has
won.' The city paper does not do
that. Here and there a country edit
or tries to put on city airs and gives
tho bare facts of "social functions,
without a personal touch to the lines.
But un~frequently does he succeed in
reaching the .earts of the readers,
and somehow he finds that his con
across the street, badly
and ~sprinkled with typograph-
zeal eerrors and hating in its grammar
but profuse in it's laudations, IS get
ting an unusual number of new sub
cribers. Even you, though you may
to be unmindful, are not dis
when on the day after your
party you read that the "guests went
lome feeling that a good time had
been had.'
And when sorrow comes! Into the
. ne of a city friend of mine death
taking the wife and mother.
l nc IdLIlIy OOOh - ~
ial circles, and columns were printed
n the city papers-columns of cold,
facts - born, married,
lied. But the news went back to the
mail country town where in their
Early married life the husband and
wife had spent many happy years, and
n the little country weekly was quite
sort of story. 1t told how
much her friends loved her, how sad
lened they were by her passing away,
how sweet and womanly had been her
character. The husband did not send
Ne city papers to distant acquain-
but he sent copy after copy of
he little country weekly, the only
place where, despite his prominence IN
re world, appeared a sympathetic re-
lation of the loss that had come to him.
Charles M. Harger in the Atlantic
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