Barton County democrat., 1912-01-19
THE COUNTRY EDITOR.

was considering the Loud bill, which
proposed to increase the postal rates
On country newspapers and to adopt
u number of restriction on their
transmission through the mails.
Champ Clark defeated the bill by his
speech, a portion Of which follows:
Newspapers are great d.sseminators
m information. The mammoth metro
pohtan papers with their vast c:rcu-
hion are splendid educators, but af-
Ter all ten persons read the little
country weekly where one reads
metropolitan paper.
Having once been a country editor
myself, entertain most kindly feel
ing for my old confreres. am will
ing to make affidavit. that the eleven
months spent editing rural journal
were the most beneficial of my Life
70 myself, perhaps TO others | am
proul 70 have belonged to the editor
ial guild. am Materially opposed to
anything that will injure the country
editor, curtail his profits, circum-
scribe his usefulness, or place an ad-
ditio-ll thorn IN his pathway.
The rural ed!tor-GOd bless him
Is the most persistent of teachers.
Like charity as described by St. Paul
in the th,rteenth chapter of the
First Corinthians, he "suffereth long
and is kind" which cannot be said
of the men that got UP this bill. He
~enVieth not" in which he does no.
resemble some people over on this
side Of the house He "vaunteth not
himself" in which he is differentiated
from the leaders on the other side of
The big aisle. He ''is not puffed up"
in which he rises high above a good
many of us. He does not behave
himself unseemly; seeketh not his
own; is not easily provoked"
He is the pack horse of every COM
munity, the promoter of every laud-
able enterprise, the worst undergrad
laborer in the vineyard. Counting
his space as his capital, he gives
more to charity, his means consider
ed, than any other member of society.
He is power in politics, a pillar Of
6he church, leader in the cruSads
for better morals. He is preeminent-
b the friend Of humanity.
Line upon line, paragraph upon
paragraph, day by day, he is en-
balming in cold type the facts from
which the Herodotus, lie Tacitus,
the SismOndi, or the Maeauley of the
future will write the history of our
Times. (Applause.) He jOyouSly
announces our advent into this
world, briefly records our upr,s.ngs
and our doWnSittingS. and sorrow
fully chronicles our exit from this
vale of tears.
AS a creator of beauty, he double
discounts Nine. Aver, who under
takes to increase feminine pulchri-
tude only in particular instances; but
the country editor in the exercise OF
plenary power, impartially beauti-
fies all women whose names appear
in his columns. daughter and ap-
Elause.) BY touch of his magi-
clans wand he converts paste into
diamonds sparkling on beauty S
neck, and with a skill of which am
cient and ambitious alchemistS only
dreamed, and with pohteness which
Chesterfield might have enTied, he
transmits brass trinkets into jewel
ry Of purest gold, when they appear
as ornaments of the family Of his
subscriber.
He is the greatest and most in
genious of manufacturers, for, while
other manufacturers produce only
perishable stuffs, he manufactures
immoral statesmen out of raw,
sometimes very raw, material.
uaughter.) This audable industry
no Dinigley bill can protect him and
he must ex-necessitate work in COM
petition with the pauper manufac-
tureTs Of Europe.
He is
To our virtues very kind
And to our faults a little blind.
We are all more or less, generally
more, his handiwork; and It does not
become the creature to injure the bus
mess Of his creator. Without his
ingenious, generous and enthusiastic
Iabors most OF US would never have
been here; and when he tires Of US
we will retire to private life, amid rl-
raj scenes propitious for secret medi-
tation and silent prayer. Oaughter.)
Working night and. day, during the
campaign, often without money and
without price, when the election is
over, the victory won and the layes
and fishes, now vulgarly called pie"
ara tn he diStributed. by some strange