Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-01-13
THE DIGNITY OF LABOR.

ia WHICH Jley treated western peoplS--sts iiiiig
that at all meetings and conventions, western de-
legates were elbowed out of the way, and made to
take lower places by the superclious effrontry of
eastern dclcgates-and concluding with the idea
that Western people owed it to their manhood no
longer to submit to such treatment.
This article we saw copied aud commended in
several instances.
The last WATERFOWL Register, under the head of
I" A ,cord NTH orr Contemporaries !" makes long
appeal to the brethren to set themselves against
lcountenaneing eastern papers. The article is too
long for us to quote entire, but we will give ex-
tracts from it to shew its doctrine:
We desire 10 call the attention of the publish
ers of papers in this State, the great injury they
are doing the business, by the indiscrminate lau-
dation OF Eastern periodicals. and the publication
of these Vulnerable prospectus which eastern
newspapers have the etfrontery 10 ask of us ives
tern publishers. Generally the first and often the
only excuse that many of our citizens make for
taking their own local papers, is that they receive
eastern papers to the amount which they afford
and therefore cannot patronize their own home pa
pers. The fact is, they generally rely upon Dor
rowing home papers to ascertain local news, and
prefer paving their money TO sustain overgrown
eastern publishers rather than expend dollar or
two for their own county papers"
eth state of things, however grows out of this
indiscriminate putting Of eastern papers
"For one we do not believe in the publishers of
western papers cutting their own Threats any Ion
ger, and hope that our contemporaries in the State
will look upon this question as we do, and for their
own interest will put stop to this influx of east
ern trash.
% Friends of the press, let US endeayor to rcme-
dy this evil 1t lays at the foundation of success,
and we have a right TO protect ourselve from the
piratica designs of our eastern publishers"
simultaneously with the Register we got copy
of the Chicago Democratic Press, containing lea
der under the head the g Western Press" in idea
precisely like that of the Register. 1t says:
" In one respect we think the Western Press
shows too much subscryiency to the large eastern
newspaper establishments. We allude to the Gus
tom of gratuitous pus and the free publication of
their prospectuses:
"Why should we longer be vassals to these cas-
tern lords 2 The West is abundantly able to sus-
tain press in every respect adapted to her wants.
She has both the writer's and the readers She
has the capital, the skill, and the industry to
accomplisha this object. If she fails in it to a
degree, it is because her patronage is divided part
going to support her own press and part to the
ern papers, who have no sympathy interest in
common with her. The Western editors, who
publish Eastern prospectuscs for nothing are very
effectuay cutting off the right arm of their own
support"
"
owe wish to see this Western dependence up
on Eastern talent and capital die speedy death.
/ 1t is degrading to our nobcr instincts and dis
graceful falling of from the seltreliant and enter
prising spirit which characterized the early settlers
of the western wilds."
Some years ago O. S. Fowler urged the people
of America to sustainhis Phrenological Journal, on
the ground that it a shame and disgrace to
this country to import from England all its Phre-
biological reuding.
All this is in bad taste, and is very fallacious
doctrine. The true Dignity of Labor should rise
above all this, and not suffer itself to be debasc
| by such low, whining cant.
AS general rule merit will always make itself
felt. There some exceptions Garrison's Ii
berdtor, the ARt,Slacesy Standard and various
ligious and political papers of the rarest ability,
but devoted to objects entirely apart from, OF
above the peoples tastes, have to be supported by
contribution. But this is not the rule General
ly newspaper that ought to be supported, will be-
Wisconsin, and the West generally, have more
brain, energy, mental force, than the same number
of people East. Because it requires all these cha
racteristics to induce pioneer emigration. But
there are no Great Men there is little refinement
polish, profundity. Wisconsin in real solid sense
and general intelligence is behind no State in the
! Union but it has no profoundly great men. Ii
/ has no Sumner, Everett, Seward, Marcy, Cass,
/ Chase, Hale, &C., &c.
This is an adequate reason for the treatment SO
much complained Of Western delegates are
more less uncouth, ignorant and unsophistica
cd, in their department., than Eastern delegates
and the reason they take back places, is perhaps
/ from the above cause.
There are bright exceptions to this ; and these
exceptions are never aggrieved because they arc
not appreciated. Benton is never sighted. Col
Fremont is never consigned to an obliyious corner
So of the Press. The American Press in gen
eral is more adapted to Progress-to Democracy
to the living, growing wants of the mass of the
people-than the British. But the Magazines and
general Literature cmanating from London, Edn
burg, and Dublin, as a general thing, in profundiy
of research, vastness of comprehension, and cx
haustiveness of logic, far overshadow as tc
balk all attempt at comparison. Yet the Tribune
is perhaps the greatest Newspaper in the world
And the EUening Post, Independent, National
Era, &C., have few equals in any country. These
papers, the Ecening Post excepted, all commenced
with the current against them but have been un.
paralIeledly successful, because of their merit.
Merit will meet its reward, everywhere and he
who whines proves, thereby his weakness The
Local Press of the West if it is true TO its duty
to the local news of the vicinity, and the wants OF
the newly developing country. The Eastern Press
cannot compete in this and therefore does not in
terfere with it. But how often is the Local Press
thus true How often do we anything in the
generality of the Western Country Press, except
stale clippings, and stereotype notices of Cooley
and Graham And how can they expect to sue
coed by this =?
No Western Editor, with brains in his head, and
industry in his fingers, has anything to fear from
the competition of the Eastern Press. Such one
will always be on the tor wave of success in any
County where Twenty-Five copies of the Tribune,
or any other like good eastern paper are taken at
each post office.
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