The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1908-12-07

managing editor and eventually
went broke trying to run paper of
his own.
The passing of the tramp"
printer and the installing of type
setting machines had much to do
with the passing, also of all-around
man. Pr
There are but few frst-class fin
ised printers in northern Minnesota.
who are also good newspaper men.
Mr.. Rutledge finished his paper
with a six-verse poem on When I
was a Devil" =
The Future of the Country News
paper" a paper by Fred Z. Geise
of the Akeley Herald, was read by
the secretary, as Mr.. Geise could
not be present.
Mr.. Geise said in part:
The future of a country news
paper depends to considerable
degree on the publisher, and the
loyal support of the community or
field which it stands for or represents.
The country newspaper has a
most bitter enemy now encroaching
upon it's field as result, to con-
siderable extent, due to the estab-
lishment of the rural free delivery.
l refer to the cheap daily newspa-
pers of the larger cities, as they not
only circulate among business and
professional men, but are now found
in almost every country home along
the route.
A few years ago it was con-
sidered a big thing for a country
newspaper to club with some big
daily, offering that publication and
the local paper both for the price of
one. This is fast becoming a thing
of the past as the country news
! paper publisher is beginning to see
the error he has made in giving the
daily papers a good circulating
medium.
The country newspaper is the
real political factor in the country.
it being well-taken point that the
opinions expressed in two dozen
country newspapers are worth more
to the politician, than the same
opinion expressed in one of the
large dailies of the larger cities.
I am of the firm opinion that the
! new postal ruling will be of intrinsic
value in the future to the publishers
from the fact that as soon as the
patrons of a newspaper become &C.
quainted with the ruling conditions
there will be no more delinquent
subscribers on our lists as has been
customary in the past.
The country publisher will, as
time goes on, pay more attention to
the locality in which his paper cir.
culates and thereby establish him.
self as an important factor to his
community"
F. A. Dare, of the Walker Pilot,
read an interesting paper on the
delights of Country Journalism
Mr.. Dare, in a very pleasing man.
ner, pictured the scene in a small
country office showing the inconven.
fences and hardships the small coun.
try publisher was obliged toaput up
with.
The days of the country printer
are great days. When the tramp
printer CHANGED along to be fed three
times day and held a hand over
his nose when telling you that it was
not drink that caused him to hit the
pike. But those were days of quiet
contentment and delight for the
country editor. He welcomed his
dusty and travel-stained brother OF
the rule as the harbinger of new
ideas from other fields, and the office
devil, who imagined he has mastered
the trade during the six months s.
apprenticeship, stands agape, while
the fellow caused the six point to
patter in an empty case with a speed
that is beyond his comprehension.
"There are only two things that
will send a tramp printer to the
next town. One of them is refusal
of meal ticket and the other the
offer of steady work. But this
well-known character of the case
has practically passed from our
midst and with him one of the
spring time delights of our work,
which we. never thoroughly appre-
ciated until he had ceased to call.
The money we then gave him for
a parched throat we now lose in
clubbing propositions and piano
contests. so after all the tramp is
the only one who is the gamer by
the flight Of time-and he is dead.
81 do not believe that The editor
who tries to handle the clubbing
proposition of a dozen or more
different publications with his
own, and who uses more space
every week than he takes to tell
about his own paper in a year, is
doing right by himself. He is