Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1838-08-25

"SuPPoRT YOUR LOCAL PREssEs."--An ar
ticle under this head appeared in the Albany
Evening Journal last week, containing most
significant lesson on the subject Of supporting
local presses. We have hesitated for num-
ber of days about republishing the article,
partly from nm unwilngness to urge suggcs-
tions upon this community which may be attri-
buted to interested motives, and partly because
we do not wish to apply certain intimatons It
contains to the prejudice OF others laboring In
the same field with us.
Inthe following extract however, there IS so
much of general and wholesome truth, that we
believe no one will complain of its insertion:---
Troy Mall. h4
"'The friends of Good Government do not re-
aze half the Importance of the Press to The as
tendency of the Right. We ask them to cast
their eyes over the State, and mark the coun-
ties where the Regency have chance Of sue
cess at tie coming election. They will find them
to be almost uniformly those in which eitherno
! Wing Press at all has been sustained, or else
those that have been published have been very
imperfectly disseminated, and have had but
puny, futtering existence. Wherever staunch
and able Wing Journal has been supported
throughout the last three years, there our
friends are united, enthusiastic and confident
of Victory. Let not this truth pass unhee-
ded!
There are many very good people vho are
not aware of the value of a credtable and well
conducted journal, to county, Independent of
its political influence. That no family can
afford to do without newspaper, simply as q
matter of economy, in view ofits thousand val
liable items OF practical information and its i'm
porance as an aid to the education of children,
! is undoub:ed.- But this is not all. The value
ofland and property generally, in County or
Village. is enhanced bv the nelghborhoods OF
a good good-ooking, well-illed journal.
A County or Village so privileged is constantly
in the public eye, abroad and at home. 1t is-a
subject efinquiry and conversation. its pro-
ductions and facilities are chronced and 60 the
rounds of the newspapers. Its advantages
strike the eye of an enquirer in any part of the
Union. Its citizens may obtain any article they
need by simply looking IN the newspaper to see
where it is Sold This soon attracts trade
from abroad and creates quicker demand for
all products. In a hundred ways advantages
accrue to it's merchants, mechanics, profession
al men and farmers; and we do not hesitate to
affirm that if every merchant, manufacturer
and professional man were obliged to advertise
to the amount of ten or fifty dollars per annum,
according to his business, SO as amply to sup
port the best kind ofa paper, it would be for
4 the benefit of all and of each.
4 Not only is society more desirable, but pro-
perty is actually more valuable, in proportion
as intelligence ismore thoroughly diffused and
the means of constant and certain dissemina-
ton in future, are provided. 1t is the interest,
then, of every property holder and business
man to aid actively the creation and mainte-
nance ofsuch facilities. In SO doing, he is in
creasing the amount of his trade or the value
of his possessions"