The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-03-15
THE COUNTRY
NEWSPAPER
Speech of Champ Clark In
Congress.
Ten Persons Read Country Weekly
Where One Reads Metrop-
olitan Daily.

tives on March 2, 1895 The House was
considering the Loud bill, which pro-
posed TO increase the postal rates on
country newspapers and to adopt a
number of restrictions on their trans
mission through the mails. Champ Clark
defeated the hill by his speech, a por-
eion of which follows:
Newspapers are great dsseminators
poiltan papers with their vast circula-
zion are splendid educators, but after
all ten persons read the little country
weekly where one reads a metropolitan
paper.
Having once been a country editor
myself, j entertain most kindly feel
ing for my old confredes. l am will
ing to make affidavit that the eleven
months i spent editing rural journal
were the most beneficial of my life to
myself, perhaps to others. ! am proud
to have belonged to the editorial guide.
am unalterably opposed to anything
that will injure the country editor, cur
tail his profits, circumscribe his use
fulness, or place an additional thorn in
his pathway.
1.-The rural editor-God bless him.
lis the most persistent of teachers.
Like charity as described by st. Paul
in the thirteenth chapter of the First
Corinthians, he 'suffereth long and
kind. which cannot be said of the
men that got up this bill. He EN-
vieth not in which he does not resem-
BILE some people over on this side of
the House. lie 'vaunteth not him
SELF 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 good many of us.
He does not behave himself unseemingly
seeketh not his own, is not easily pro-
voked'
HE is the pack horse of every COM
munity, the promoter of every laudable
enterprise, the worst underpaid labor
er in the vineyard. Counting his space
as his capital, he gives more charity.
his means considered, than any other
member of society. He is a power in
politics, a pillar of the church, a lead
er in the crusade for better morals. He
is prominently the friend of humanity.
Lime upon line, paragraph upon par
agraph, day by day, he is embalmng
in cold type the facts from which the
Herodotus, the Tacitus, the Ssmondi, or
the Macauay of the future will write
the history of our times. (Applause.) He
joyously announces our advent into this
world. briefly records our uprisings and
our down-sittings, and sorrowfully chron
icles our exit from the vale of tears.
LAS a creator of beauty, he double
discounts Nine. Aver. who undertakes
to increase feminine pulchritude only in
particular instances, but the country
editor. in the exercise of plenary pow
or, imparially beauties all women
whose names appear in his columns.
daughter and Applause) By touch
of his magician's wand he converts paste
into diamonds sparkling on beauty's
necks, and with a skill of which ancient
and ambitious alchemists only dreamed,
and with politeness which Chesterfield
might have envicd. he transmutes brass
trinkets into jewclry of purest gold, when
they appear as ornaments of the family
of his subscribers.
He is the greatest and most ingen-
ious of manufacturers, for while other |
manufacturers produce only persistable |
stuff. he manufactures immortal state
ments out of raw. sometimes very raw,
materials. Uaughter) In this lauda-
BILE industry no Dingley bill can protect |
him. and he must ex-necessity work in |
competition with the pauper manufac-
turers OF Europe.
"He is
To our virtues very kind.
And to our faults little blind.
eve are AL more or less, generally |
more, his handiwork; and 1t does not |
become the creature to injure the bust
ness Of his creator Without his engen-
ious. generous and enthusiastic labors
most of us would never have been here;
and when he tires of us, we will retire
10 private life. amid rural scenes pro-
pitious for meditation and silent prayer.
(Laughter) Working night and day
during the campaign, often without mon
ey and without price. when the alec-
ton is over. the victory won and the
aoaves and fishes, now vulgarly called
pie are to be distributed. by some
strange lapse of the human memory. ne
Is generally forgotten.
Horace Greedy was certainly one of
the best editors the world ever saw.
Ills letter to William ii. Seward in 1854,
announcing fhe dissolution of the po-