The Northern galaxy, and Middlebury people's press. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1843-1844, 1843-11-22
THE G Ajax Y .
MIDDLEBURY:
Wednesday Nov. %, ls43.
THE GALAXY.

upon an improved qudllty OF paper, anu cIOtn- |
ed from font of new and finer type. All
this we have done, not that we intend it to
become less the advocate of popular rights,
but TO increase its usefulness and circulation,
by making it still more worthy of public pat
ronage. We fear no charge from our subscri-
bers that we have ever fattered them with
promises which we have not amply redeemed.
From the time we commenced the publication
ofthe Peoples Press, it has passed through regu-
lar gradations ofimprovementuntila tlength we
spread it before the people in dimensions and
typographical execution as we believe no way
inferior to any in the state. The hopes how
ever we have entertained Of outstanding fair
living out of country paper of more ample
proportions have been somewhat abated by
the experiment. Nearly every paper ever es-
tablshed in Middlebuty has proved a proftless
concern. Still reasonable spirit Of patron
age in the wings of Addison County and vicin-
ity can accomplish an object SO desirable for
the sustentation of the glorious cause which
they have espoused. There are hundreds Of
wings who patronize neither of the papers
in the county. One of the excuses most fire.
quently urged is the limited amount of read
ing matter afforded by the country journal
This we have endeavored to avoid by expand
ding our sheet, and altho it still does not en-
brace all that is desirable, yet it contains more
intelligence indispensable to a citizen of YER
mont, than the largest city publications. Ev-
cry state has its own interests. politics, candi-
dates, legislative proceedings, and discussions,
about which the people derive no information
from abroad any further than they are inter
woven with national concerns: Seldom for
weeks does even the Tribune, which probably
enjoys wider circulation than any other for
eign Journal contain notice Of Vermont Ion
ger than digit.
As an efficient agent of conducting pOlti-
cal campaign country paper is Indispensable.
This alone can attain a general circulation,
and make an impression upon the masses
among our vallies and our mountains. In
this respect we claim considerable merit, hav-
ing by most laborious personal efforts gained
a much more extensive circulation especially
in more retired districts, than any other county
paper has enjoyed. In connexion with this
excuse is another, that our columns are Occu-
pied with too many advertisements. These
are the very life blood of a country paper
without which it must Instantly expire
Scarcely single one in Vermont can COM
pute its income beyond the amount of adver-
Using patronage, the subscription list being no
more than will meet its outgoes. Nor can
we regard our advertising columns useless to
the public. 1t is of nearly as much interest
to those who purchase to peruse the advertise
ments, as it is to business men to present them
to the public. Doubtless every man who
buys fifty dollars worth of articles, saves the
him of procuring the best articles at the cheap
est rates.
But the most illiberal of all reasons for with
drawing from the patronage of the press, is
the plea of retenchment to which the first VIC
tim sacrificed is too apt to be the newspaper.
The body it is true must be fed and clothed
pense of mental starvation. To obtain a
knowledge of events daily transporting in the
world, and especially of those political move
ments which operate so directly upon our
Pecuniary prosperity, and which the sovereign
people have it in their power to control more
by the influence of the press than any other
weapon, would surely justify in almost any
emergency the trifling outlay which is neces-
sary to sustain it. We cannot envy those
whose minds are so constituted as to feel the
retrenchment of newspaper as temptation
to which they could honorably yield. We
trust there are but few of the liberal and en-
lightened population Addison County who
upon reflection would not condemn parsi-
mony so absurd and disgracelul.
But whatever interest our wing friends may
feel in sustaining generally a country paper,
at present it has peculiar claim upon their
patronage. A most momentous crisis in the
politics of the country has arrived. So far as
the national prosperity can be affected by the
government, another year will decide our des-
tiny either for veal or for woe. Now or new
er is the time for every patriotic wing to en-
quire what of the night. The watch-fires of
1910 must be re-enkindled upon our mountain
tops. Every wing must be armed to the teeth
in the conflict, and with his keenest weapons.
And what more efficient instrument than the
press to pave the way to victory. Its trumpet
voice must be raised, and its arguments and
incentives to action must speak in the ears Of
every freeman in the state. We call upon
those wings who believe that the aid of the
Galaxy will be desirable to enroll themselves,
among its subscribers. Now is an suspicious
moment to extend its circulation. Congress
is about to convene at the capitol. Its pro-
ceedings must be intensely interesting. Top