New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-28
CITY AND COUNTRY JOURNALS.

Two or three inland Contemporaries nave m"ss uu'sn
" us as assuming dictate in recent ar
tcle. the manner in which Country Journals should be
conducted The truth lay thus: Complaints were
made BY Country Papers that the City Press. and es-
pecialy The Tribune encroached upon, impoverished
and threatened destroy the Newspapers printed In
the Country. Pleading to this INSTRUMENTATION
would have subjected to the mPutason OF treating
the Country Press with disdan or contempt had va
pass.d il in sence-we said in substance that, The
better portion Of the Country Press did not realize tue
hardship per unite in the under conslde
ration: g That the journals which did encounter
detressve rivalry from the City Press we're too gene
rally filed in good part with extracts from the Guy pa
pers many of which had been read BY their more intel
e.n patrons before they reproduced it, and so came to
heir patrons as old news, which is no news at all
g. That country journal filed in good part with local
Intelligence and taking to record promptly ever
casually food fire. marriage death, religious, Poli'ca
or other convention church. furnace or factory erec
tion clerical settlement removal, untimey frost
pfotrscted drOuth, &C. &c occurring within SAID Jour
nails natural radius of circulation. could hardly TAU OF
receiving an adequate support, even though every man
in the county should be subscriber 20 City paper
So much truth we uttered, being imPeed thereto oy
the complaints Of certain country papers that The
Uteky Tribune Vas so cheap and so comprehensive as
10 work serious damage to the Country Press.
It's pone of our business, we freely admit that many
Country Journals see fit to I'LL their columns almost
entirely from those of the City Press but when We
End ourselves accused of taking away the subscribers Of
those journals by making too cheap and TOO az
tractive we feel that we may fairly repe the accusation
-. LaI;o 10 ho fha f-uth ia a
common mistake of our Country contemporaries which
assumes that the free circulation of City papers in their
several Counties restricts that of their Let each
County in the State be fairly canvassed aud the general
result will show that those Counties which are most
liberal in their patronage of City journals are likewise
nest liberal 10 those printed within their several limits
ulIe Counties chat fc~est City papers proportion
ably TO their population, most niggardy 70 those
printed in their midst.
liza County journal give al the news of the County
with such Foreign and other Intelligence as lt airymsy
ctizenof that County can no more afford to do without
# because he takes City paper than he can afford to do
without house because be has excellent farm True,
an individual may and then stop his County paper to
aleope from the City, but this is generally done on an
understanding With some neichbOr who continues to take
the County paper that they shall exchange papers and
the deeper interest excited the wider range of tastes
crst6ed by two papers than by tends inevitably to
increase the number of subscribers to both For gen
er As the habit of newspaper reading has become, there
ore still hundreds of thousands Of American families
sbundantly able take paper yet stumbling on some
how without one Let all seek TO render our jour
nails acceptable as they really Indispensable to thou
sand, after thousands Of this class and from day to
aay make fresh inroas into the domain of Ignorance
instGd of turning our against each other.
There one serious evil TO which the Country Press
is subjected that cannot fail to cripple its energies aud
lessen its usefulness. We alude to the excessive mil
hDlcetion of newspaper establishments: For instance
the County Of Chautauque in our State, having some
6OOOC inhabitants aud very little trade save the inter
change Of It's own Agricultural staples for goods, has I'll
We mistake noD aize regular newspapers issued from
sr different villages These journals can hardly pay
less than $1,000 per annum for ypesettng and Sl,5Ot
fer Editibe-together slO5OO-wbich, II concentrated
On ree papers would suffice TO place them II 'he IRON
rnk both in ability and amount Of matter, while ensur
iIg hand ome return for the capital invested and an
Increase Of advertisements because Of the increased
value given them BY threefold circulation We do mo-
imply that the Chautauque papers are not now good
W. only insist that they cannot be made good while
tey remain so numerous they could be if there were
BAT two or three OF them. Where every village Boosting
second meeting house supposes newspaper establish
reut essential TO it, dignity interest the Country
journals are inevitably exposed TO most damaging com
petition and 10 comparisons which cannot fail 70 be obi
ou, We protest against any saddng Of the City Press
! uith the consequences Of such folly