Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1910-08-30

a. paper on Inc lmportdncc VI bul
torials in the Country Newspapers
from which this is an excerpt:
| THE editor, and bear in mind mean
the country editor, is not numerous
Quantity, and yet he is man of COM
manding influence He occupies pc.
sition all his own. He is well known
to every man, woman and child in his
county. His thoughts and opinions,
week after week, reach more homes
than those of any other member of
the community. He may deal with
subjects as varied as those of an en-
cyclopedia of general information. A
canning factory, or new court house,
Improvement of the county roads, the
shifting values of the products of the
soil, or the high Mighty-Might arbiter
of Peary-Cook North pole controver-
sy, all such, and a thousand and one
other topics of the day, must neces-
sarily form part and parcel of his we'll
balanced mind. In word, he is the
only man in the community who by
attending well to everybody's business,
in very truth, best serves his own. He
is without limitation of race or creed
or sex or condition. His assets are
his honor and his brains, and his only
weapon, | dare say. is publicity. He
has, therefore, ample opportunity and
far-reaching power; let him use it
judiciously and for the uplifting of his |
fellow man.
"A time there was when the big city |
editor, in the person of a Greeley. a |
Dana. Bennett, a Mccullough, a
Medill and host of others, nodded
opinions that carried influential sway
throughout the length and breadth of
he land. But that day is past, the
'ame big daily lives, moves and has
is being as of yore, but is run now
more from the counting desk than
rom the editors chair Consequently,
he influence of the METROPOLITAN
rother exercised in the editorial de-
artment is lessened. while that of the !
ountry editor has increased. The big q
ally editor is now, / may say a n
lbmerged quantity. without entity, II
I'VE under the generic phrase of staff q
iitor. And daily that represents v
me special interest or syndicate al
has neither entity nor responsible 10
2, and deals only with an assigned bf
biect The clmaxes in his life are
ly reached when the special inter-
T is attacked; then this irresponsi la
} creature rears on his hind legs, 70
1t We're. and besmirches and plays pc
voc with the character of any man be
set Of men who have the temerity or
hardihod to enter his plutonian tie
I'm The rural editor, as you well kir
NV, is far different, and this very ira
erence Is what gives him his power.
strength, his ability, to do and {
We the purpose for which an editor ing
) intended. the
The country editor is marked MOI
n, with a distinct personality. This the
sonality need not include brilliancy. that
talents above the ordinary. but mad
d, solid common sense and ability
1--WE expression to matters of vital c.
ortance to the reading public. He knol
I'D, therefore, say what he wants have
ay in plain, clear language, as his enjo
e, Gaping the ditorial column. is That
aranteed of the honesty of his ut in ii
noes. And as long as he retains
open and above board entity, so TIE
will his power be felt Simplicity, give
ness and honesty should be up rung
lost in the mind of the country seas
r. Long may his personality en- wori
and long may he strive. through "sair
t and main. to guard and keep II.
is alleged that practically all the mimi
beers of the Illinois legislature of than
are implicated, directly or indt uba,