Show COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS The country editor as a factor in the te development of the section In which his struggles are carried on accomplishes a hundred fold more than he is credited with wih doing There Is no public servant anywhere who strives harder to satisfy his constituents There Is no one who has ha a more honorable or unselfish am ambition am But one of Hz H recent con converts converts converts verts in this city cf who Imagines imagine him himself himself self a journalist sneers at country editors and ad uses the term as a term of opprobrium It does not become pencil pushers are usually on the auction auction tion ton block to refer reer in contemptuous tones to country editors or country newspapers Men iten lIen whose principles are weak wea and their breath strong joke about the intelligence and the influence of the country editor edior Yet his newspaper is the t e pride of his hi life It I an intermittent publication publication tion ton issued l whenever there are candi cardl candidates dates to hold up It I Is a legitimate 1 newspaper devoted to the interests of the community In which It i is published Usually it i Is an institution U qt has been heen indefatigable and influential in the of its town In is advertising its advantages in working for its best Interests The country editor Is f honored by men whose experience e In the affairs of life qualify them to speak advisedly of his worth The country countr newspaper is 19 re respected respected respected by those thoe who know It in Its is sphere shere and know the Importance of that sphere Dhere I An eminent Eminent public pubIc men man ma recently r centy re remarked remarked marked in I the th course of ot a lecture l ture de delivered delivered livered In New New York that the country countr papers wield a far fr greater influence among their readers reder Jha than i Js generally supposed In to their circulation lation they bAY are atA a lorA mor influential than than their city cHy contemporaries conte This Is Ti i large largely lr ly due to o the fact tact that that the editors of ofte the te weeklies weekles are coser in touch with the people and d are more truly their representatives The country editor edior goes goe in and ad out among his hl constituents day by day He learns lel their opinions on general and local questions and his own views if he be honest honet with ih him himself himself self are more or less les tinged by b the general thought It Is not fair to as assume a sume that the independence and indi individuality of an editor edior depend upon his superiority to all Al ll exterior influences the opinions of his h hi s neighbors the sentiment sent ent of his church the judgment of his hi club In his lal utterance he may be in full ful accord with wih all al these theand and be more or less lem swayed by their collective mind and yet give his paper a character of ofis its is own a breadth br and ad freedom and In Independence independence Independence dependence of thought that may lay make it a power for good and the truest type t pe of a popular representative re |