The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-07-22
SUPPORT HOME PAPERS.

jby tie Wesfern Press, aud II should b
needed by ihs Western people. Home pa
I lPers have donee more for the West, that
can be calculated in dollars and cents, an
| II is truly surprising, as it is ungrstetul
that so great a number of Western pcopi
prefer 10 pa.ronze dist ant newspaper, 1
the exclusion of one published near home
Distant newspapers as general thing, ar
Of little intrinsic value, aud AZ means 9
advocating our local Interests, they are NJ
Use whatever Why then should they b
regarded with that favor which belongs on
y TO those which are really and intrinsi
caiy usefMl X is extremely difficult Il
find an excuse for ,hosa who persist yea
after year 10 patrohize distant newspapers
lin preference TO those who are ever reads
10 advocate and promo'e ,Aeir local and in
diyidu4l interests. Or course such person,
claim the right Of doing as they please,
without regard 10 crcums.a noes, they very
often Do wrong. Il appears to us, mere
gratitude for services rendered, apart from
any other melting motives, should induce
Western people 10 patroniZe Western pa.
oeis; and no where is this daty mere in
cumbent, or the obligation more binding
upon the community, than here at home,
in Illinois, Iowa aud Wisconsin. Here
newspapers do everything for the people
Is a gran, Of land TO be petitioned fot
from the government, who are the ablesl
advocates Of the petitioners? Who perse'
we're SO long and 60 s,renuous!y in urging
the claims Of the State and OF The people
to the consideration and respect of Con
gress? The newspapers-ihe humble
home newspapers. Are they paid for this
Not one cent.
Is a railroad or plankroad TO be built
who does most of the preliminary work
Nho appeals most ablt 10 the people 10 i;
Aehalf-who labors mast 10 gather lnfor-
nation from the experience oil others, anf
Iay it before the community. 50 that the
people NAV be warned against impravI-
dence OF encouraged 10 profit b. circum
stances analogous 10 those which may have
bean advantageous to others? The news
papers Do this And are they aot paid iug
this' No; they are not. Sometimes they
nav be thauked, bG, just as frequently
blamed for their services; but as fur being
paid, no enc thinks q such an act oi jus
lice.
There are thousand other service.
which newspapers render The community
which need not be enumerated, as no read
er can be ignorant Of the fac, that they arc
an all subjects the exponents OF public
opinion, and for all useful objects they art
the advocates Of the qualification of iht
popular desire. Nor are they less useiu
ID the Reproduction of vice than they arr
able in The cause oil human happiness
What is il that the offender breads mor'
than the scalhing rebuke Of the press
Nothing: Neither the pulpit nor the Ba
can make him quail, as can the humhles
country newspaper.
In the cause OF moralitv-in the adsoca
lev Of human righis-in spreading abroad
for the Information Of The people. new fact:
10 science and in arts---in bringing togeih
er a knowledge Of passing events from y
Tho nations, tribes aud people Of the world
what so industrious, what so Influential
what so useful as a newspaper? Every
paper is n cyclopadia Of knowledge, anC
such knowledge, too, as may be sough, fol
in vain elsewhere.
And then it's cost. shat is il? Less foi
year than single ''trea, all round" or ;
few cianrs. Less than anv one Of tht
Thousand luxuries which with most people
have become Indispensable with their daily
fare.
With all these advantages which can be
purchase so chenply, why ia it that SC
large nomber Of human beings refuse 10
avail themselves Of newspaper? We
NAV be able TO account for some inserme-
diate motives which actuate them, but We
cannot account for the primary cause
Who will enlighten US on this subject!
|Of'course no one can, except he who reio
ses to take a newspaper.-Janesriis Gas