An American Authority on the Local Eaper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 335, 25 October 1907, Page 2

An American Authority on the Local Eaper.

It la the duty of the people of everv district to support a local paper, wh -re «h*re is one, writes a leading Amsroan exchange. It w< rks every uane in their interest, take up their grievance*, urg-s their req-nrem-Dt* civ e prominence to their industries and inRiitutiona, and makes their locality known to outsider*. The poorest and moat wretch ed newspaper ever published, is worth ten times i " price to ev-ry m.n in the district in which it is published. Ex Governor Francis, of Mis ouri, speiks as follows of the haial report:—“Kach year the local paper <nve« from Xsooto£looo in free advertising space to tte community in which it is located. No other agency will or can do this Th • editor in p-oportion to his means, does more f r the town than any other ten more. He <u ht to be supported. not because they like bitn personally, or admire his writing, but because the loc.l paper is the best mveatu.oot local P^P 1 ® «•“ ,fc “V not is rhar*. be brilliantly edited «r over e owd <1 wi.L thought*. but finwcially is o ..f mcrt> Un di' to the c ir. a. on tty than thw ww a r °r th« preacher. VoderWsnd re r fl«. ti'd mean morally or inbJleetUallj bu» iiuwUHy" Ihema-iwhoea useehimsnlf f.om -übß. ribi-g to a local paper on tb.Krnuud !h.t "u®<« »» indeed lein a desperate way-so bad that ■ha earing of threepence per week will «<op him from going on • financial ‘'bust?