An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 323, 26 July 1907, Page 2

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

It is the duty of the people of every du. trict to support a local paper, where there is one, write* a lea.iiug American exchange, It wr rks every issue in their interest, takes ao their grievances, urges their giv-'s prominence to their indp.striea and institutions, and makes their loca’ity knewto outsiders. The poores* and m st wretched newspaper ever publishe r, is worth tea times its price to every man in the die ric in which it is published Ex-Gov >; - Francis, of Missouri, spjaks as fvVows a local report:—“Each year the lo»:a* tn--gives from £sooto £lOlO in free .dv> • i g space to the oummuaiw i t wh ch i is - ed. No other agency >’i.l o• u > • .i-_ Th.* editor in proportion to :is , <, d ac- - more for the town than »ny ■ ruert > He ought to be supported, n ben--tike him personally, or adm.rj his wd: but because the local paper i; the vs: q. vestment local people can mak it - not, pirh ipe, be brilliantly edited or ■ crowded with thoughts, but financially is is of more benefit to the c •mruuuity tiisn the teacher or tbe preacher, Cnderstaui me I do not moan morally or intellectually but financially.” 1h: man who excuses himself from Fubeorib ng to a local p «- on -ne ground ’ hat ‘ ba indeed -e ia ade • • ths saving of thre v n. • i ■tec bus &oBt«iaK an • ta-ucuj liu •*,