Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1838-04-07
APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THE COUNTRY
PRESS.

APPEAL IN BEHALF OF THE COUNTRY
PRESS.
Aside, however, from party consid-
erations, country newspaper is an i'm
portant member Of the body polite. II
is absolutely necessary to the people al
large as legal and ordinary medium
through which to convey to their fel-
low citizens knowledge oftheir thou
sand wants; and to country town il
is particularly serviceable as correct
index to the character and condition oi
one of those miniature worlds-a bust
ling country village.
But it is in the light Of faithful re-
preventative of the political partialities
of communi,y-of freemen governed
by rulers ofand created by themselves,
that we view the press with the deep
est interest. The political county
newspaper serves to embody and pre-
sent the views Of party existing in
different parts of a county, and to keep
the whole we'll advised Of the plans
and organizations Of the several parts.
Further; it gives haractcr-strcngth /;
substantial form, to the political feel
ings Of the county as whole, and
serves to convey those feelings Of the
centre of all the countics-the metro
polis-thc great heart of political OPP
crations. The effect of all this is, TO
create among the townships Of a coun-
ty or the counties OF state, unity of
action, which never fails to ensure sue
cess.
There arc sundry objections urged
by many, against the newspaper pub
lished and exclusively circulated with
in their own county. The most. pro-
mnent we shall here notice.
The neysp,uer is too small. True
it is, our county newspapers do not
compare with the mastodons. Nor is
it probable they will do so, until our
population shall become denser, and
every citizen takes newspaper, and
when he can take but one, prefer his
Preside journal to the stranger from
beyond the mountains. Even those
who support the eastern sheets filled
as they arc with riots, murders, and
tales Of love and blood--acknowledge
the Importance Of home newspaper,
devoted to the advocation Of home in
forests. Their actions, however in
dictate different opinion; and, if gem
orally followed would render home
as scarce in tho west, as
they were in the eastern states hun
dred years ago.
It's 6urthe1ed ,Oith standing adj
rertisements Of eastern periodicals.
This objection is, in some degree, well
founded. There are too many Of these
in the newspapers of Ohio,
and we are we'll convinced that west
ern editors injure themselves much by
their journals the vehicle Of
the painted promises of the eastern
trash mongers. But we are speaking
Of an evil, which is direct effect Of a
cause that should not be permitted to
remain. The community do not yield
to the editor an adequate quantity Of the
very life blood Of q printing establish
ment--paying advertisements. He can
not afford to present a weekly sheet of
new matter. Hence the necessity of
keeping the matter complained of stan
ding for weeks and months. The bu-
siness community OF villages do not
appear to understand the advantages Of
aliberal system Of advertising, and we
have reason to believe that printers do
not use proper exertions to present a
correct We've of these advantages. Our
own experience proves the truth Of this