Wisconsin herald, and Grant County advertiser. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1844-1845, 1845-08-02
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EASTERN TRASH.

delphia ahd Boston, haze issued those
mammoth papers which have excited
The wonder ofthc rustic world. lhcJ
were gay with pictorial and typical
embellishments. But they made nc
additions to our literary wealth. They
we're the repositories Of rejected tales
ale stories and pitiful poetry by third
rate writers who split upon their page:
thcir frothy clIcrvesccncc; they were
tho organs of slop-shop authors, who
could not find their way into the mag,
zines, and OF youth and schoolgirl:
who aspircd to see themselves in print.
Men bought them for their special
qualities, not for depth and solidity.-
Nobody read them; they were not
made to read, but like those cdgeless
r,zors made TO SELL Bought for song
because they were marvcllously cheap,
,bey proved TO be worth less than they
cost, except to be used as 'o'ndtng
sieeis for the grocers' butter and can
dies. The new postage system has
) ,aled their fate. They can 10 longer
l1mbcr the mail without paying for
their privilege. They will be non
extant hereafter and no one will weep
,hcir death. There are, however, ma
nv of the same character in the Eas-
tern cities which thrust their face into
the western country with the same pre-
tensions Of chcapness if not OF nlagnl-
tndc. And if there is a more short
sighted or suicidal method than that
heretofore adopted by western publish
ers of putting and publishing the prom
ises of these cheap wccklics, We know
it not.
That they should be patronized by
people, that money should be wasted
for trash, that western papers should
be suppllnted by these eastern catch
pennies is not at all strange. Columns
of their advertisements rcplcte with
fulsome promises and fl,ttcry come to
us daily in our western exchanges.
Transparent fools must these editors
be who will thus work their own
destruction. If we would have press
peculiarly and exclusively identified
with the Interests Of the west, letus
cxpurgatc these cheap wcelSlies from
our borders.
They advocate not our commerce,
our agriculture, our internal improve
mcnts. They have no interests in
common with ours. They are not val
liable as missives Of news. No one
finds his political, his commercial or
his foreign news in them. They are
literary and pictorial toys and have no
utilitariau character. We say they
must be cxlcrminated il we would sup
port our own.
We do not advocate the claims OF
BUR own press because simply 1t IS our
own, but because it is the interest OF
The mechanics, the farmcrsand the mer-
chants of the West to sustain papers
truly and wholly identified with the
affairs OF the country around them
The true representation OF our inter
csts al home, our commerce and agrt
culture, and OF those in Congress, our
appropriations, deicnccs and navigation
upon our rivers, belongp TO western
p,pcrs. In these the farmer finds his
nrice current, his county and state
news, advice for the proper tillagc OF
the earth, the merchant his bank note
list. his trade items and a general re-
view OF The markets. They are the
conservatives OF western home claims
and The Eastern Saturday Couricrs,'
"Posts." .s Boston Notions" "Brcsher
Jonnthans," and the like, are their an
tagonists in this respect. They recog-
nizc none but Eastern and Atlantic IN
torests and repudiate the idea that the
West has any nj all, We say TO the
public. lend an ear to those who know
and advocate your most intimate and
riehtful claims, and scout these catch
penny sheets which are not only worth.
hess but even noxious to al. YOU call
your own.-[Cleseland Plain Dealer.
err" What are you doing there,
Jane 2" "Why, Pa, Pm going TO die
my dolls pianoiorte red" But
what have you got to die it with ~
Beer, Pa" " Beer who on earth
told YOU that beer would die red p
" Why, Ma said yesterday that It was
beer made your nose so red, and
thought" t" Here, Susan, take TN:
child
R-fe" MIR. Jayne, what is the price