Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-06-07
Friday, june z, 1850.
c. L. sHoLEs, EDITOR.

perlysssRtS EheIps-s"IGS Causes
Nothing is more disastrous to the business
interests of a community, than the misfortune
which arises from having a class of merchants
engaged in doing the business of the place, who
are not poeuniarily interested in the city. Men
who can pull up stakes and leave for parts I'M
known at a minutes warning, arc not the men
whom the community can look to as valuable
citizens, or depend upon for the prosperity Of its
business relations. We know it is humlatne
truth; but we might as we'll own it first as last,
since the facts are well spread out in New York
and Boston, that our merchants, as a whole,
heretofore have not been men of the most reli-
able character; and we now might have some
grounds of encouragement and hope for our
young city, if we were certain that in these re-
EpectS there was change for the better.
We might institute comparison with some
OF our Leighborng cities, but it might be thought
lnyidious as far as our city is concerned. But
we might as we'll "own the truth and shame the
devil" if we can. Racine has a good name
abroad. She supports or "sports" weeklies
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will be issued in few days, if report says true
Now we all know that Racine has not enough
more population to make this difference in the
need Of papers. Where then must we look for
the radical cause of the prosperity which mas at
tended her at home and the good name she en-
Joys abroad Mainly, if not entirely, TO the
character of her business men they are not
afraid TO use the means to let the world know
that such place as Racine exists, and that there
are merchants there who are buying wheat and
selling goods and they make, by this course,
more money themselves, than if they were try
ing to grow rich by spunging sixpences, and
never paying dime for any thing themselves
ANY community whose mechanics and labor
ers can always have plenty to do, and get the
cash for their work, is in a far more prosperous
condition than those who are half the time out
work, and whenathey get job are obliged to
take truck and dicker for pay. We speak advis-
eddy whom we say,ewe know that in the whole
length OF the lana, from the Bay of Fuudav to
the Gulf Of Mexico, there is not town Of half
the size of this where their papers are rot better
supported, both in advertising patronage and a
good subscription list
We can point to a number Of towns in the
interior of this State, where this fact is remark
ably evident; and should we but mention their
names, i: would be equivalent to advising the
working-men and mechanics to emgrate to them
forthwith, for there would be some chance for
them in community where they do not intend
TO starve their newspapers to death
We might mention, by way of illustrating the
point more forcibly, that one business firm in
this place procured nearly 5000 worth of print
ing done in Buffalo last year; and that same
firm will never know we have published this
fact, unless they borrO,0 our newspaper to read
tor some good friend tells them Oft
In this place. as every body ought to know,
there are two weekly papers, living on, out of
spite, by the skin of their teeth, when they ought
to be well supported, and publish column
daily besides; and this they could do, if the
same patronage were extended BY the business
men of this place to the newspapers, as is ex,
tended in Racine, Chicago, and Milwaukee, to
their presses.
We have lived in this city great while, and
feel as much interest in her prosperity as anv
other mar IAN. And we have not made these 70.
marks because we should be pecuniarily benefit
ted by change OF policy on the part of our bust
ness men. But it is the imperative duty of
some body to speak, and there is no need of SIM
pressing it any longer lest we should be sus-
pected OF being an interested witness. We have
solf respect enough, if we have not natural
love of the truth, and natural plainness of
spoech" to lead us to speak what we know to be
true, and point out what every body, whose opn-
ion is worth any thing, knows TO be the cause
OF our commercial embarrassment and business
distress.
Is there any other point in the length and
breadth of the State, where the mechanics and
laborers have been changed so often IS thew
have hero? AS soon as one set has found that
they could not live here on account of the IRON
hearted policy pursued towards them hv the
men who held all the property and managed the
business of the city, they have moved to new
lis to find out thatif they expected to eat, this
was not the place to earn the cash TO buy il:
though they might get any thing else for pay
that would bear 100 per cent. profit. We have
been through the hopper, if not quite through
the mill, and we know how now to talk by tho
"almanack." We hope, for the sake of the in
terests of the city, these things will not always
continue.
Three papers have been starved to death here
within ayesr-the Daily Ledger, the American,
and the Tri-Weekly Experiment We don't
feel at all alarmed in the premises, because we
can live "by faith" as long as any one besides.
And after we have become completely impover-
ished by publishing paper, we can do some
thing else and get a living. We were never
afraid of hard work, and are perfectly WILLING
now 10 do any thing honorable for the sakr q.
bread and butter. We have thrown oqt these
things because we think they were called ro-.
For advantages Of localily-for a fertil, and
fruitful back country, proximity IL a fno-ke.