Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1854-01-12
eastern Timfs.
BATH. JANUARY 10, 1854.
The Railroad and the Daily Mirror.

The Railroad and the Daily Mirror.
Our remarks week before last upon the lack
of facilities offered by the Kennebec and Port
land Railroad, and the apparent existence
of narrow policy in the management OF It's
affairs, we have reason to know are in agree
ment with the opinion Of seven-eighths of the
business community. Still they or we arc
actuated by no feelings of hostility TO the cor
poration; and our remarks were intended
more for Improvement than injury of the road
That the result has been healthful, we ser
witness already.
AS usual, when large bodies are attacked
there are always diminutive bodies, creeping
along under their wake, kind Of sentnels and
defenders, who though they were not taken
into consideration at all, make great deal OF
noise, and like swapping cur, bark great
deal more than they bite. OF this description
appears the Mirror. Any structures upon the
railroad are called by the editor, ''slurs," at
tributed TO base motives, refusal of free tickets
and the like-precisely such motives as APP
pear most potent to his mind. However, as
the bark at ourself barked the Daily Mirror
into existence, or rather drew it out of po-
sition of extremity between wind and water,
where 1t has been gasping lately, we should
be cruel 70 complain at an operation where the
ultimate good of the people of Bath is SO much
concerned. We shall not do it, as we are
perfectly willing to bear our share Of support
ing public burdens.
The Bath Mirror man would be taken as
maintaining remarkably liberal notions. A
free ticket would not buy him, oh no-he
wants something more-say an arrangement
with the superintendent, that he does the
printing, including the barking.
A newspaper ought TO st0nd on something
that looks like a basis, Independent Of the
whims and changes of the multitude. Its per-
manancy should come of itself and not of the
crowd. Then there can be independence
The Mirror man has different theory. In
stead Of going to work and building up bust
ness and patronage, our citizens have been
treated lately to jeremiahs upon the duty of
supporting a daily newspaper. Suspension
comes because the people do not take hold,
and heralds fly all over the land screaming
that Bath cannot support a daily paper. Anon
somebody promises aid-"things is worked
and out comes the daily all right but the
spinal cord, and that seems to be missing.
We suppose it has been kept back for the
"aiders" to hang the bantling with bye-and-
bye. And this is the editor who accuses us
Of being ''bought and sold in the Market" of
''pufing for money!" and ''blowing for the
want of it," If anybody has pulled and
blowed for support more than he has for some
months past, we should like to find him. Far
be it from US to interfere with the deserved
patronage Of the Industrious, and we would
not throw trig in the way Of the success of
the Bath Daily Mirror. But let the manager
take care of his own concerns, and not attempt
TO lmpugn our motives above all, let not him
who acknowledges himself as existing upon
public benefcence, and dying when material
aid is Withdrawn, whose morning song and
evening lullaby are ''give, give" be SO greedy |
10 deny to others the motives which he has |
not the inclination or the capacity to appreci-
ate.