An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 409, 9 April 1909, Page 2

An American Authority on the Local Paper.

Lt is the duty of the people of every district to (support a local paper, where .here is one, writes a leading American It work*? every issue in their interest, take up their grievances, urges their requirements gives prominence to their industries and institutions, and makes their locality kuou a to outsiders. The poorest and most wretched newspaper ever published, is wort-a ten times io price to every m%n in the d .strict in wh-'ch it is published. Ex-Gore, aer Francis, of Missouri, sparks aa follows of the local report:—“Each year the local p .per gives from Xsooto£looo in free advertising space to tne community in which it is legated. No other ageacy will ot can de th'-' The editor iu proportion to his mean:?, does more for the town than any other ten men. He ought to be supported, not because they like him personally, or admire his wririnv. but because the local paper is the bast investment local people can mak?. 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 the preacher. Underou* d me I do not mean mor; y or intellecvU; ty bukHnancially.” he man who excures I usdf from eubsc dug to a Ic'il paper on the ground that ,iines are too bad” must indeed be in a desperate way—so bad that the saving of three leace per wejk will stop him od a financial " bust,”