The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1854-02-02


How few among the great mass of the
people consider how much is lost in not
taking their own county paper. A man
located in the midst of community-that
community united by law and convention
al rules Of local nature-he has become
component part of that community, and
hence he is or should be if worthy citi-
zen, interested in whatever effects or con-
cerns any portion of that community. He
cannot ss y his duty to those around
him unlea9 Understands the affairs that
concern taem or what befalls each and
every potion thereof. And how can he
understand those things, or how so cheap
ly get the requisite information as to take
his own county paper? Thereh gets the
local affairs though imperfectly we admit
in many instances because of the great in
convenience and expense under which the
printer labors to procure the current events
O. localities, remote from lis Office. Yet
it is the most certain and extensive source
of information with which he can be pro-
vided. Then let every citizen subscribe
for his own county paper, where he will
get all the important foreign, eastern,
western, northern and southern news by
telegraph as soon as they have in any part
of our country, and our foreign countries,
as soon as it reaches our shores
Some say, am taking paper from a
distant town or city, and cannot afford
to take another. If that be the fact, and
his neighbor takes his own county paper,
the latter will be several days in advance
of the former with news, markets, and
foreign arrivals. For instance, we have
given from day to day the markets at New
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charles
ton, New Orleans, at the identical time OF
sale, while he who takes a paper from
either of those cities, must wait the arri-
val Of his paper by mail, from three to
twelve days. Even in business point Of
view and feeling of reciprocacy, the per-
sons who buys and sells, should feel bound
to patronize paper where he disposes Of
his marketable commodity. Say for in
stance, a farmer is on his way to market
with load of wheat, and while he is on
the road despatch reaches the printer
that wheathas advanced this day ten cents
per bushel, at New York, The paper SC
announces the fact, and the farmer re-
ceiyes ten cents a bushel more than he
otherwise would have done for his load
or whatever quantity he may have. Here
the farmer has been benefited in the one
instance, several times the amount of q
paper for the entire year; and perhaps, he
does not take the paper through whose la
Dor and expense he has been thus bene'
fitted. Ifso, he is not doing towards 9th
ers as he has others to do unto him. Sc
it is in all the business transactions of life
And he does not patronize has but little
claim on the community in which he is 10
Gated to buy of him his produce, wares o.
merchandise. The feeling of encourage
ment, the spirit Of the motto, s'live and
let live," should pervade every breast
Let the farmers, mechanics, merchants anc
laborers of whom the printer is one-pat
ronize their own county paper. Wher
this is done, if there are among us those
who desire paper from a distance, as {
matter of course he should take it; bu
this thing of putting in plea that Il an
taking distant paper or would patron
ize you," is sure subterfuge, unworthily
expressed-it should never be mouthed
-Sandusky Mirror.