An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 356, 3 April 1908, Page 2

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

It fa the duty of the people of every district to support a local paper, where there is one, writes a leading American exchange. It wrrks every issue in their interest, take up tbeir grievances, urges their requirements prominence to their industries and institutions, and makes their locality known to outsiders. The poorest and most wretch ed newspaper ever published,is worth ten times i s price to every man in the district in which it is published. Ex-Governor Francis, of Missouri, speiks as follows of the local report:—"Each year the local paper gives from £sooto £lOOO in free advortisirg space to tbe oommuaity in which it is located. No other agency will or can do th’s. Th? editor in proportion to his means, dcea more for the town than any other ten more. Ke ought to be supported, not because they like him personally, or admire his writing, but because the local paper ia the best investment local people can mak >. It may not, perhaps, be brilliantly edited or over crowded with thoughts, but financially it is of more beuefit to the community than the teacher or tbe preacher. Understand me I do not mean morally or intellectually but financially.” The man who excuses himself from subscribing to a local paper ou ths ground that “t-i n«s are too bad” m t ndeed be ia a desperate way—bad uh ,i he saving of threepence per week wifi top him Iromg«ui£ oa » financial • Inu,»