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Show THE LOCAL P.irER, A newspaper man says: "It is an admitted fact that during the recent flurry in financial affairs no agency did more potent work to maintain confidence among the j people in moneyed institutions : than the country newspapers. They ; all swore by their towns and by their banks boosted them up as the safest in the bind, managed by the most able financiers and equal to any emergency. It's the local paper that keeps down the excitement excite-ment in perilous times, throws oil on the troubled waters and makes all men better by its being published pub-lished in the community. It deserves de-serves all the support good citizens can give it." i That in all true with some exceptions. ex-ceptions. Some papers were such calamity howlers that, so far os their influence went, they injured their towns, counties, states and country every time they issued. Besides, some of them haven't quit howling yet. Logan Journal. That's gospel truth. Petty little I calamity howling party organs de-1 de-1 stroy most of the good work j done and confidence created by ; the efforts of the real home j paper, whose object and aim in life I is not to misrepresent and midign half the population of the town or i county. |
