An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 343, 27 December 1907, Page 2

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

It is the duty of the people of every disi trict to support a local paper, where there is one, writes a leading American-exchange. It werks every issue In their interest, take up their grievances, urges their requirements givss prominence to their industries and institutions, and makes their locality known to outsiders. The poorest and most wretch sd newspaper aver published, is worth ten times its price to every man in ths district in which it is published. Ex-Ooverner Francis, of Missouri, speaks as follows of tbe local report:—‘‘Each year the local paper gives from JloOOto £lOOO in free advertising space to the community in which it is iocatad. No other agency will or can do this The editor in proportion to his means, does mors for the town than any other ten more. He ought to be supported, not becMM they like him personally, or admire his writing, but because the local paper is the investment local people cam make. U'm«y not, perhaps, be brilliantly edited or oier ’ • yow led with thought,, but finanoißUy it ie of more benefit to the community than the teacher or tbe preacher. Understand me I do not mean morally or intellectually but financially.” I he man who excuses himself from subscribing to a local paper on the ground that “times are too bad'* must indeed be ins desperate way—so bad that ths saving of threepence per week will step him from going on a fine no'al *‘ bust. ’’