Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-06-24
support your own Papers.


when you can get your work as we'll done
at home as it is done abroad, it is alwa-s
best to encourgc your own workmen.-
This just principle of political economy
is as applicable in the matter Of news
papers as it is in every thing else. 1t is
true and forcible when applied
to the necessity Of supporting an indie
pendent press in this city.
There are hundreds of persons here
who are ever ready to exclaim 40! yes,
Washington ought certainly to have its
own penny paper-a Journal Of ali indie
pendent character, conducted with ability,
by mon Of marked character, and advo
eating strongly the great interests Of the
metropolis. - Certainly" chimes in
another good citizen, eve should have
such a paper here by all means. But can
it be supported! Have not several papers
Of that kind been tried in Washington,
and failed!"
And these worthy gentlemen finish of
their colloquies by expanding their money
to buy papers printed in other cities: pa
pers filled to the brim with advertisements
of rival concerns, and overlooking with
cards, and letters, and manifestos Of rival
political factions, cliques and cabals, in
whose discordant and disgraceful move
ments the inhabitants of Washington can
not possibly take any real interest!
Ask such gentlemen why they thus pat
ronise the papers Of other cities in prefer
ence to their own, and they will reply ::
g. O! we want the telegraphic dispatches,
and the letters of gossipping correspond
ents." And for the sake of getting these
few grains ofswheat-if wheat it is-they
swallow column after column of worthltss
local trash. Of no sort of consequence to
them, beside any quantity Of the vicious
advertisements which every respectable
parent ought to be ashamed to take
within the sacred precincts Of the family
circle.
But see the fallacy Of the reasoning of
those to whom we allude. How can our
citizens expect that an independent press
here will publish the latest telegraphic
news, unless it is sustained in so doing
by the subscriptions and advertisements
Of those Immediately and directly con-
cerned, by their own business in sustain.
ing penny paper in Washington /? IF
but a small part of the money paid for
advertising and reading patronage to pa
pcrs from other cities were given to an
penny press here, it could
be published every evening on hand
some sheet-it could contain all the latest
dispatches, and an amount of
reading matter that would
he gratefully received among all our
'aniles.
We are aware that this is plain talk:
and some may be uncharitable enough to
nsinuate that it is dictated solely BY
selfish considerations. But we assure
our fellow citizens that it is not so. The
proprietor of the Daily Evening Star has
abundantly proved the sincerity of his
lesire to give the good people of Wash
ngton an independent daily paper by
the large sacrifices he has made. The
success that has thus far crowned his
efforts, in spite of the disadvantages
under which he has labored, is conclu.
sive proof of what can. and will, and
shall be done by perseverance. "Tbere's
no such word as fail in this concern.
Citizens of Washington !-capitalists-
workies-men Of business-lovers of good
order and pure literature-we appeal to
you. What we have said before in this
case we say again: 1.-The Euening Star
is bound to shine and it certainly will,
and that gloriously too, if you will bear