| Show FREE POLITICAL BOOSTS i We Ve too were among those favored 1 last week with a n. ar I I r request t to publish some plate matter that was intended for a n. boost for Colonel Roosevelt The aforesaid plate was promptly consigned to the hell box When our bread and butter depends depends de- de on on the sale of our advertising space we cannot understand wl why we ve should g give ve a away vay that advertising advertising- s space ace t to hel help some individual individual in- in ual unless in m doing so we are combating an imminent evil l Roosevelt's Roosevelt's sevelt's principal object of attack is Taft and his po policies cies and J. J putting Taft against Roosevelt we find it difficult at present to toi i distinguish twixt dum and Both have sufficient sufficient suf- suf 7 merit t to claim our respect and both have made their full fully y S share of blunders so we dont don't see why we should give our advertising advertising adver- adver space to eith either r. r t r However in regard to this to-this this free plate proposition we noticed S r last week that some papers papers accepted the offer of Roosevelt's press agent and others pul published Taft pro-Taft plate matter that bore all r- r the earmarks of free advertising Now if these papers have such sucha f a poor opinion of the value of their advertising space they ought r fr to notify their local merchants of the fact and give them first i. i choice choice of position It is manifestly unfair to ask home people to pay for advertising space in a paper when that space is given away to town out-of-town politicians l Possibly some of the editors who published pub- pub 1 l last weeks week's free contributions expect pay sometime in the future but in that case they should at least have displayed the J fairness of notifying their readers renders that the articles mentioned ed 1 were loaded i Of course it is quite a temptation for the overworked and andt t J underfed n country editor to fasten his on free plate t o matter in order to be able to take a day off But he lie should never lose sight of the fact that sometime he will have to pay dearly dearlY for fore e z t 1 this day of rest In fact he and und all other country editors are S S 'S paying for it every day of their lives It is owing to such mch poor i r business methods that we wo find so few country editors who are able 4 OW own l even second-hand second a automobiles biles If these politicians were 1 made to pay the country editor a fair price for all their advertising advertising advertis advertis- i ing space it would at least enable the editor to buy a n. new suit I j d during ring our national campaigns Politicians cannot reach the people peo pea pl I except through the medium of the country press Truly the a average rage country editor is a Fall Guy of purest ray serene y |
