Show SMALL TOWN VS BIG CITY for years it lias has been a amusement of the large city dailies to refer refer to the local news contained in the country press as small town stuff it pleases the city dweller to read it at its his breakfast table it emphasizes the superiority of tian wisdom and we of the country press are content to let it go at that with a passing word or two of comment the small town stuff which furnishes so much amusement to our city friends may be homely in its phraseology alt it may be unimportant as compared to the anital ital affairs of the world but it possesses the merit of being the truth the average country publisher does not resort to tation and sensationalism in the columns of his paper ills his news articles and items are compo comprised com poised Eed of facts as lie he finds them and they aie not doctored or colored tor for the ct cf pleasing any class or faction or tor for the building up of a huge list when he stand editorially on any public question be it local state or national he ha has in view the wel welfare fare of the people as a whole and not the interests of 0 some political faction or machine ills columns may not contain an of news but such as there is may be read with perfect safety by the growing children of the community without parental fear of instilling questionable thoughts and desires in their budding minds ills his paper may be email and provincial but it is clean the reader Is never at a loss to know whether or not a statement made by the editor is based upon tact fact or whether it is composed principally of 0 what is commonly known as newspaper bunk the publisher of any big city daily who can legitimately and fully say as much tor for his paper is at liberty to amuse himself at our expense to his hearts content it will be viewed by us in ili a spirit of fellowship aud and brot brotherly heily love |