An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 399, 26 February 1909, Page 2

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

It la the duty of the poople of every district to support a local paper, where there is one, writes a leading American exehango, It wrrks every issue in their interest, take up their grievances, urges their requirements giv'-s prominence to their industries and institutions, and mak-ts their locality known to outsiders. The poorest and must; wretched newspaper ever published, is worth ten times i’S price to every nun in the district in which it is published. Ex Governor Francis, of Missouri, epoaks as follows of tho local report:--“Each year the lucal paper gives from £sooto £lOOO iu free advertising space to tbe community in which it is located. No other agency will or can do this Tk.• editor in proportion to his means, does more L»r the town than any other ten mon. He ought to be supported, not because they like liirn personally, or admire his writing, bid t»ecauoe the loci I paper is tho host inlocal p» , opln can mako. It may Dot, perhaps, be brilliautly edited or overcrowded with thoughts, but financially it is of more benefit to the community than tho tenchcr or tbe presohor, Understand me i do not moan morally r intellectually but financially." The man '?ho exuuaes himself from subscribing to n local paper on the ground that “times nr c too bad” must indpod be in a desperato .y—so bad that »i caving of thraepunc per week will stop him from going on a financial ” bust/’