Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1850-09-25
Lewisburg Newspapers, etc.


The Editor Of the "Chronicle," on the
l,rb inst. presented statistical sketches Of
rho lone line of /" iiu> rious predecessors
IN his office of public journalist for the
I.ewsbursians. The Editor pro tenn. pur-
noses 10 make few comments from the
limited and perhaps imperfect data thus
presented.
!, appears that for aoout 20 years pre-
vious 10 the establishment Of the "Le"!s.
burg Chronicle there had been sereh
fixtures 10 secure an adequate support Tor
newspaper here, and that f,cflUe diiier-
IN, persons had attempted to win fame or
money Tor bo,h) in conducting those jour.
mails. The average life of each journal
was nearly two years, or l35 months to
zach publisher.
From what We have learned, there were
but two or three of these publishers who
obtained anything like respectable remu-
nera,ion for their toll, the majority becom
ing impoverished, or leaving creditors,
workmen. Landlords, bal!-men, subscribers,
&c, to suffer from their failures. The
amount Of Time, money, labor, health, and
spirit toll wasted in these efforts, is no small
SUN in the aggregate, but not in a share
capable ul being computed.
Doubtless, among those who failed,
some lacked energy, industry, econo-
my. and perhaps honesty, bat il can hard
" he that all we're thus deficient. We as.
crlbe the failure of the seven papers most.
Iy to their partisan character, and the
tendency of party newspapers 10 diminish
rather than increase patronage. In central
county seats, Party Journals can be sus.
tanned, TO advantage but in local com
muni,y like ours. where journals must ne-
cessarily depend upon their home business
patronage, party paper sufficiently radi-
cal TO meet the demands Of party leaders
must drive away rather than attract patro-
mage out Of lbs party. 1T there be no 9th
or paper of the same party, in the same
county, it has the advantage Of both local
and party suppolt-as a, Milton and Nun
cy-bu, while each party has its general
county organ as a, New Berlin, publisher
as a, Lewisbure mus; rely almos. entirely
upon the support Of thosel the country ad-
iacent who do business with it. Town peo
pie may support, after soIl, town paper
which is arrayed against their views and
feelings both personally and politically !;
but i, is not that cordial, pleasant, LIVING
support which is needed to give ii l!e,char'
ac,er, and permancnce.
Five Democratic and two Whig news.
papers, which have lived and struggled and
died insolvent before the era OF the "Chron-
;cle," bear evidence to the fact that this is
no, soil calculated to nurture journal of
a party stamp. Our citizens all vote
+ote intelligen,iy-vote lndependently-but
neither their business pursuits, tastes, nor
their habits require that erery conductor
Of press (that honored means of human
weal) should
"Give up to Party what meant for Mankind"
For large town, there is here more than
q common share Of liberality Of political
feeling and sentiment-!ess bigotry and
narrow.mindedness OF party-and much
personal good feeling and absence OF
cliqueism. We are an industrious, labor.
ing, and (hope TO be) literary community
and no, band Of ,fained, starving, un-
scrupulous, violent, slandering partizans,
hunting for Offices and depending for our
living upon success in depriving our next
door neighbor Of has bread. Now to fan
The flames of party strife among such a
people-to array one neighbor against an
o,her-and TO carry on the war OF politics
weekly the year around-as superfuous
party papers necessarily do, is not only in
furious 10 the moral and social interests o
people. bur results in The long run in pc
cuniary losses-aenation- -dscord-anc
hard feelings in church and in society.
And if one party press, or organ OF q
handful Of intriguing aspirants, we're sus
tanned at the cost OF some interested per
sons. other parties and other cliques alsC
mus, have their organs, and others mus
be taxed TO supper, them. There is NJ
considerable increase of the legitimate an,
effective means of support in. such a tow
by the multiplication of organs > III