Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1839-06-01
MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, JUNE !. 1889.

posals for publishing papers devoted exclu-
sively to electioneering, during the coming
campaign. This they have an undoubted
right to do, and we shall make no effort to
restrain them in its exercise, while, at the
same time, we tender them both our fervent
hopes, that they will receive so little encour
agement as 10 deter them from putting their
designs in execution. Now, we have no
doubt, many will think it strange that we
should call IN question the utility of a GUS
tom sanctioned by such reverend usage, and
stranger still, that we should miDgle both
whig and tory and indiscriminatley oppose
them both, while we act with the whig par
ty; if there are any such, our reasons for
SO doing are ready, and while they are satis-
factory to us, we hope they will convince
our friends that we, at least have no reason
to wish sucsess to such an enterprise. Pa
pers of the kind under consideration, when
they come from an office at which another
paper is published, usually contain tie same
matter with the other, made up in differ
ent form, disguised with new name, and
with the addition of some more highly sp-
ced and elaborate articles, that give the
print a more exclusively party complexion,
than the one from which it is made. Being
thus made up, it goes forth to the world as
the paper, calculated expressly for revo-
lutionising the state; it is commended to
party committees, forced into circulation by
agents who travel, collecting contributions
forits support, the mails are loaded with
bundles of it. directed to everybody who
takes an interest in politics and has purse,
and general rally is called for to put mo-
ney in the editors pocket that lie may get
the full reward for his philanthropic exer-
tions.
There is something that savors strongly
of empyrcsm In these extra papers. They
are offered at pretended low price-only
fifty cents for the campaign,--a thing that
looks rather strange, coming as 1t does
from those who profess to be great stickers
for the honor and glory ofthe printing bus-
ness, and strenuous advocates for high pri-
ces. They come recommended to fit every
case, and like the nostrum of the quack, are
calculated for every disease whatever may
be its nature or stage. No matter what
may be the local interests to support, the
local claims to advocate, or the local feel
ings to soothe or excite, your extra cheap,
extra strong and double extra talented pa
per comes armed with pleni-potency to cut
all the Gordian knots of policy, settle all dis
putes, by means of kind of patent, double
acting, self taught poitica. second sight,
and to set every thing right with the innate
dignity with which 1t abuses the English
language, and takes upon itself to NEEDLE
with things which it had better let alone.
We think we are fully borne out by cxpe
rience in saying that these papers while
they do no political or even party good, are
productive of vast amount of moral evil.
They are calculated by an overstrained tone,
and an intensity os coloring to excite and
mislead those into whose hands they fall
and to awaken all the bad passions of our
natures against each other. They do not
convince, on account of the manifest preju-
dice under which they view every thing Of
a party nature, and their only effect is to
stimulate both parties with an unnatural ex-
ctement that is carried more or less, as the
paper is read and believed, into all the re!a-
tions of society.
There is another reason why we wish pa
pers of this kind no good they draw away
n large portion of the support that legit-
mately belongs to the local press. In the
support which political extras receive, the
FOCAL press is virtually told that it does not
answer the purpose. The people of Ohio
are too prone to undervalue their local pa
pers. A print, to be valuable must come
from distance. A prophet at home is not
only without honor, but without credit.
Nov, we are certain, that the half Of the
money that is raised in some places to sub
sdize distant press, would make the pa
pers at home all that those who pay could
wish tor. 1t would revive the spirit ofma-
ny laborious publisher, who, borne down
under weight of debt, and loaded with the
that his labors are unappre-,I
ciated, is as dull and ineffective as his worst
enemies can wish.
People may learn it when they will, the
ocal press is the engine from which they
must expect the most powerful effects, and
fthey shut their eyes to the fact, they may
ry in vain to act through the medium of pa
,ers at distance. Support your papers at
ZONE. You can command talent cheaper
here than abroad. A little assistance,
title money and little charity, and you can
aise up in your own neighborhood zeal
'us and faithful advocate Of your doctrines