An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 306, 5 April 1907, Page 3

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

It ia the duty of the people of every district to support ft local paper, where there is one, writes a leading American exchange. Jt wr rks every isenein their interest, takes up their grievances, urges their requirements gives pr iidnence to their industries and institutions, and makes their locality known to outsiders. The poorest and most wretched newspaper ever published, is worth ten timed ; .n pi ice to every man in the district it is published. Ex-Governer i\: fids, ot Missouri, speaks as follows of the rf-port:—“Each year the local paper gi : from £sooto£looo in free advertising . to community in which it is locat-n-her c'/oncy will or can do this ■; , •r in proportion to bis means, does o. ,r. ‘or t io- town than any other ten more. . . ■ • io be supported. not because they | ,-onally.or admire his writing, but bc< .u < i local paper is the be it intn.ei t local people can make. It may it j r.'i p-, ho brilliantly edited or over- ■ : thoughts, but financially it ... • «-ne(it to the community than . •. i,rt or the preacher, Understand n not mean morally or intellectually b'.; finsnoialiy.’* Iho man who excuses him-#<-;r from uxbscribing to a local paper on the ground that “times are too bad’’ must indent! loin a desperate way—so bad that the «aving of threepence per week won’t stop him from going on a financial “ bust.”