The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-20
"The Pig is Mie|ster III an
The Pen"

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With the above as a topic,
Howard Raun, of the Manchester
Press. delivered an address before
the Upper Iowa Editorial Associ-
ation rcccrt1v u-L:cI rrt;i'c, I, n, -
a plA-c .,mut.A Lilc teoy ii H. hu.nor.
lists whose pictures are TO adorn the
walls of the Hall Of Fame. Compar-
ing she farmer with the newspaper
man Mr.. Raun saws
II ON here to say that the man
who owns lightly acres of Iowa land
ana hu has brains enough to till it,
makes he lot of country newspaper
| men look like the last sad remnants
of il Dutch lunch. The farmer has
the best of it all around. He is as
independent as the American Ex-
press Company, He doesn't have
to write a soulful obituary over the
remains of some peak-headed bloke
| who caved his wife's ribs in with a
grub-stake and kept on display an
exhibit of cut plug profanity that
would make the efforts of steam
boat mate sound like a meeting of
the Epworth League. He edoesn t
have to go into raptures over the
beauty of an open-faced bride with a
cast of countenance that would blow
out the gas, and he can say what he
| pleases about candidate for con-
gress. something 40 newspaper ever
dared to do unless he had just lost
the post office. The farmer isn't
required to lie until his back teeth
fall out, about the sterling manhood
of groom with ears like caull-
flower plant, and the brain power of
shoat. He doesn't have to run a
piano con test for the most beautiful
young lady in the community, make
everybody sore at the winner, and
then print seventy-tive- cent half
tone of the beauty that looks like a
tintype of grandma at the age of
thirteen. There is nothing in the
farmers curriculum that obliges him
to paint the local soprano as a
heaven sent songster, when in fact
she has a voice that would make a
guinea hen weep. He isn't called
upon to paint the virtues of a prom
inen. citizin who earned his money
by collecting notes with a draw
shave and who would have an attack
of heart failure if suddenly separat-
ed from two bits of real money.
1.-The farmer can stand on the
street corner and roar about small
pox in town until his wiskers curl
up like lean man with the wind
collie, and if the newspaper man
runs three-line item to the same
effect his advertisers Will land on
him and make him resemble crush
ed fruit salad. If the printer opens
his head about the presence OF slot
machines, penny ante and hOles-in-
the wall, every candidate he sup
ports at the primary election will
have about as much show of nomin-
alton as a one legged man in a
hurdle race. The farmer can sit on
his front porch and lambast the
board of supervisors from supper to
breakfast, and If the newspaper man
lars board off the fence in that
direction his appeal for the county
printing will be about as effective as
live broil with tobasco sauce.
"The farmer can express his opin.
ion of the new Methodist preacher
in firm and loud voice, on the four
corners, and if the prin ter ventures
to express the view that the preach
err ought to be chasing a curry comb
over a milk cow instead of filing a
large room with thin. ozone and mis-
information, he will lose subscribers
so fast that lie won't have the cir
culation of cold-storage egg. The
farmer doesn't have to impress
chaste kiss Or the moist nose of his
foreman III order TO keep him from
getting drunk on press day, neither
does he have to get somebody to 20