An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 324, 2 August 1907, Page 2

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

It is the duty of the people of every district to support a local paper, where there is one, writes a leading American exchange, It works every issue in their interest, take up their grievances, urges their requiremens, gives prominence to their industries and institutions, and makes their locality known to outsiders. The poorest and most wretched newspaper ever published, is worth ten times its price to every man in the distriot in which it is publ’shed. Ex-Governer Francis, of Missouri, s aks as follows of the local report:—“Each year the local paper gives from XoU)to£1000 iu free advertising apace to the community in which it ia located. No other agency will or can do this Th j editor in proportion to his means, does more for the town than any other ten more. He ought to be supported, not because they like him personally, or admire Lis writing but because the lo> I paper is the best investment local Pt >ple can mak j . It may not, perhaps, be brilliantly edited or overcrowded with thoughts, but financially it is of more benefit to the community than the teacher or tbe preacher, LTnderstand me I do not mean morally or intellectually but financially.” The man who excuses himself from subscribing; to a local paper on the ground that “times are too bad 1 ' must indeed be in a desperate way—st? bad that tha saving of Lhreept nce per week will stop him from going on a financial ** bust. °