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Show In-ard of a country pa per of 1.000 or ' 2,000 snhsenhers altering tariffs (excepting in its own unread oolumns) ; shaping polities; success suc-cess fully directing Congress or the two great pirtics? .No one has, or ever will. lis power and iu-ilueiice iu-ilueiice lies at home. The local we. kly should steer clear of tolities as far as practic- j able; it should leave it severely alone. It's iiehl of labor is in an entirely dill'.Tent and separate enclosure; en-closure; a different work is expected ex-pected of it. People at the antipxles can talk j and boom political parties, bult if you ignore and neglect your own j locality, are you likely to find many J outside papers generous enough to pertV rm your ofliee hy talking up ' and booming your section for you? Not by a long shot. If the local paper rfnusn'L pers.e-veringly pers.e-veringly continue pegging and pegging peg-ging away, with a pluck and persistence per-sistence almost superhuman, in an earnest and disinterested manner, to encourage immigration of settlers, set-tlers, building up of the country and the utilization of every resource re-source and natural advantage, that section will always bo in the rear; always following and never leading; will never reach its God-gi ven possibilities and will be looked down upon hy its more progressive neighbors as the stat of indolence ami sluggishness. These are but comparatively few of the duties and responsibilities of the representative local country paper. And how' vastly better and strikingly superior the aim to excel in these directions than to neglect the interestsof your locality to dabble in something you cannot thoroughly and exhaustively treat? We believe, when politics is reduced re-duced to as near perfection as man can trim it, that it will be studied from books, as religion is today. There will exist a few chief political thundercrs in the land, whose sole labor will be in a political way. The other papers may "pull" for the men of their liking, but to assay to Jill up their pages' with one-sided political bosh at the saerilioe of the moral and material interests of their respective communities com-munities tnd the neglect of the news of the locality, will be considered con-sidered an almost unpardonable error, cspeciall when met with in country journalism. This is The Bugler's idea of the representative country weekly. COl XTRY JOl'liXA LISM A XD POLITICS. Sdfwi, Tiik JSiv.i.fr lias suc-e. suc-e. usfully, we b.'lieve, confined its1 labors to nc WF-gntheriiig and refrained re-frained from dabbling too much in politics. From the beginniiig, we h.ive riven to build up a neivs-ptper; neivs-ptper; nut a political hot-lied. By Liking a contrary course, we find, many of our country exchange? arc getting their fingers burnt, or are choking themselves in an inex-tviuahle inex-tviuahle political mire of senseless personal abuse, or a labyrinth of uIil-trust- difcuj-sioiis, the purport uf a wliole lwt of winch is as little utidrLiHid hy the urilery them-eel them-eel ves as by their long-suffering and patient readers. It is just such ambitious tyros we are glad there arc few in Ttah. whn destract from the dignity, injure and even kill true country journalism. Like I lie witli-ss, in-f in-f rior bards, in the days of peerles? llyron, they vainly strive to imitate, but with a weak, siekening Hotter they fall helplessly to tht-e.irth tht-e.irth and are ht sight of and are s ion f rgotten. A country paper ennnot afford to devote the greater part of its limited limit-ed space to p.-ditics; h ave that tithe ti-the city editorial writers who make this subject a life-long study. Ol vastly more importance to the local journal, and the community which it represents, arc local and sieii uai event-1, transpiring almost d.iily, w! licit demand its e.i ruesl attention. i If by lending its earnest support and zealous advocacy it will result in the building of a canal that will carry wat'-r onto a thousand acres uf harivn land, previouslv worthless; worth-less; or by its vivid but honest representations it can induce a backward railway company to project pro-ject their road into an enterprising loci I town suffering from its he, it. tncy or slowness of action; if by its truthful promulgation of the ruoJivcs and 'natural advantages of the section which it represents it can, in the course of time, per smaile foreign capitalists to step in, or local moneyed men lo push nhcad and construct lnuue markets an 1 labor-furnishing industries, such as canning f:u tiiii'S, rreani-t rreani-t 1 it chci-st fai t tries, woolen f.iet.iriis. tanneries, ete. ; the development de-velopment of natural gas n sources, mini ng in) pee s, cte., etc.. etc.; now, we ask, are not such incalculably incalcu-lably important matters of far greater moment to the general peace, j happiness and prosperity, than I he j h.iij, prosy, nonsensical ilisijuisi-tions ilisijuisi-tions on tin plate andtarill"'.' Those matter- are a. I right and good in their place, but that phic is not tiie country journal. Who ever |