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Show nUits.1 DtUV-KY A BtNtFIT. 1 So l esr Tli il 11. s Mr, li.illv Will Son. ! !'" IP' I ' I'sssr, ! Son,,. ,.l ,,r u, irieu.ls of th ! liiislern Me-hii-an Press Club nre wna- im pi -.iinisiie, sats die lictr.ilt Free I I'riss. i ... 1 1 1 ihe i. , ... . i, ieu. -cs of rural 'I lelUci. The) lent- that the clly dally wlil grow lu Ireiilatioii at tbn expense of lis rural i, Mil. nud that eiei.tiiall.v II. o coimiry olitm'a 1st will ( ' be as in m y ns Hint of the pnllcrmao i . in Mr. i.illi-ii s l.aliad. ' Within our day ami generation many '( 'nnoiit-,-iis were to ruin the country i.( editor, nnd ol ho in. -leases In wenltb end power. Wo can remember when, tor the most part, he Hied prccnrloua- ty, nml soiled his only pair of trousera lu making his u n rollers j. To dny he Is likely to be one of the nost prosperous p., rums In bin com- 1 miiiillv. His iioiis.rs nre rreascd. and t he Is not obliged lo pairiiiiire one of die places whore (hey erense tliern ; while you wait, cither. II, s fhlldrce ire soul In (bo nulier.lty. the dsllgh- tors have a piano nud stylish gowns. L .11111 the family Is not expected to keep ! fat by Inking the cod Hi or oil received III exchange for advertising. In fact. Ihcre nre not a few metro-pollinn metro-pollinn newspaper men who envy the rcrnl editor his Independence, hln free, ilom from the more mercenary enren, nnd his general happiness mid good fortune. And we suspect Hint he will eontlnne to harvest bis share of the good things. The rural free delivery may ennble the metropolitan dally newspaper ! Invade In-vade bin field, but It mnnnt compete wlih htm In recording Ihe more personal per-sonal nffnlt-a of the locality, and lest i nnd less will It nttcmpt to do an. The grent dally ennnot be a local newspnncr for every community la which It circulates. It can only keep the public informed nn to the grPnte? nffnlrn nf the world In general. Hvery community must depend on ltn local pnper for repor's of those more Intb ninte evcutn which It nlwnya reads with the greatest engirncss. An the population Inoronsea there will be more of this Inenl news to print, nnd a corresponding tncrense In the damned da-mned for the r r. Thin elrcutntlna will bring mor, i. ertlslt.g. and the rami ra-mi editor Is In llnd thnt he Ima lost nothing lu pocket or In prestige by the rompctlilnn of the clly dnlly. We ennnot compote with It In report-lug report-lug the grent evcutn of the world, the more Important history of the nations from dny to dny; but the demand for what a simple, pnstnrnl people enllt 'nnme news" In not llkply to past nwny, be there a hundred rural routes where there In now one. The rurnt editor must adjust himself to altered coiidlllonn, but nnee adjust . ed bin alntns In likely to prove scour. Ileslilca, society cannot apar blm. |