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Show B The Country Editor. B . lion. Champ Clark in a recent speech B in congress against the infamous Loud H "' bill, said of the country editor: "lie is B the packhorso of every conimuui'y, the B .promoter of every laudable enterprise. B the worst underpaid laborer jn ti.o vine-B vine-B -x yard.' Counting his -space aiuHliis B capital he gives-more to chnirity,his B means considered, tlian any other intm- B bcr of society. He is a power in B politics, a pillar of the church, a leader B in the cra&ade for better morals, lie io B pre-eminently the friend of humanity B Line upon line, paragraph upon para- B graph, day after day ho is embalming in H cold type tho -facts from which tho B Herodotus, Tacitus, Sismoudi or B Macaulay of the futuro will write the B history of our times. He fully chronicles B our adyent into the world, briefly notes B our. uprisings and downsittings, and B sorrowfully records our exit. B "Wo are more or lest generally more B his handiwork, ai.d the creature B should Hot be ungintuful to his creator. B 'Without; his generous and entlmiastic B labors most of us would never have betm B lieie; and, when he tires of us, mostoi H us will retire to private life amid rural B .scenes propitious for secret meditation B and silent prayer. Woi king night and B day during tho campaign, when the B selection is ovoi and the time comes for B the distribution of the loaves and iishes B now vulgarly called 'pio' by some B strange lapse of memory he is generally |