Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-07-12
to stop the New York Tribune

All the newspapers in the country, that are bar
rem of home news and therefore not read, willing
to charge the cause of their failures to anything
but their own laziness, are conspringto put down
the New York Tribune. We have noticed that
every sickly rickety, for-sale paper in Wiscon-
sin. with one or two good scolding papers that
are well read, are down on the Tribune. This
| is wrongi the New York Tribune has done more
to improve peoples tastes and thirsts for news
reading than all other city papers put together,
and we believe the more Tribunes are taken in
any vicinity the more country newspapers will
be taken sL as
There are about 400 weekly and semi-weekly
Tribunes taken in Grant County, and about g.
GOO County newspapers. We have never yet
known one of our subscribers to stop the Herald
to enable him to take the Tribune; we often adj
wise persons to take the Tribune with our paper
in order to get well posted in home, foreign, east
ern and al other news. The man who takes on
lily one newspaper is poorly supplied with the
ways of the world over, and he ought to be ufg-
ed to take another; the Tribune and County pa
per win supply most any man with all the read
ing he has time for
Had there never existed a New York Tribune
we don't believe the country press would be halt
as well supported as it is for nearly all of prn-
cipe. policy, religion, fanaticIsn, sensible and
super-sensbie dictionary, rational, American,
abominable and terrible first appears in the Tri-
bune and then in the country press. 1t is the
newspaper regulator just as much as Nick Bid
dies Bank of the U. s. was the regulator of the
currency-bogus as well as genuine.
In the above the Grant County Herald says
what we have had in our mind to say, for long
time, noticing as we did, the grumbling of many
of our contemporaries at the spread of the Tri-
bune in our midst. We think, with the Herald,
that the Tribune does the country press vastly
more good than harm 1t is quite impossible fol-
any country paper under the most favorable cir
cumstances, to supply the place to the readers Of
it's neighborhood, of the Tribune, and it is just
as impossible for the Tribune to supply to the
people Of any locality the place of their own coun
ty paper, if that paper is anything what it should
be, There can by no possibility be any conflict
between the Tribune and any other paper in its
own locality, provided the latter instead OF lum'
bering up its columns with stale matter hastily
culled from exchanges, is true to its mission Of
developing and bringing to light all there is OF
/ interest in its own neighborhood. 1t is quite i'm
possible in the limits of our sheet, to give oul
readers the news OF the world. We cannot and
do not pretend to, and we rejoice that there is 6
paper like the Tribune to cheaply supply thai
necessity, and at the same time develop enlght
ened and liberal sentiment which shall give for
ward impulse to all proper institutions and en-
terprises, country papers properly conducted
among the rest Nor do we any justice il
the complaint on the part of our contemporaries
that the Tribune is too chcaply furnished, there
by breaking down the country press. The pub
fishers are the best judges of that. They do just
the country press do, furnish their paper for what
they think they can afford to, and that is pecu
liarly their business. The readers of the paper:
understand the matter well enough, and it is MOI
more than once year we hear the suggestion
that our paper is too high because the Tribune
can be had for less. They know paper cannot
be printed here so cheap as the Tribune can, but
they know at the same time, that county OF
neighborhood paper is absolutely essential Il
them, and they arc willing to pay FOR it, the sun
necessary to keep it alive. Surely there is not
man of this county or neighborhood who take:
our paper or any other paper of the county o
ncighborhood who is not benefited during til,
year by it to the amount of 81 - Withou
claiming any special merit for the paper, we pre-
sumo there is scarcely a number issued which is
not worth to some one as much or more than that
five published nothing at all but advertisements
it would be worth that to every reader in year
but when is added to that the amount of local i'll
telligence, interesting, useful, and in various
ways profitable, which is given, it seems to u
folly to fear the competition of the Tribune eithe
in its interest or price. Take the Tribune say
we, to all within the sound of our voice, and i
you think your county. paper is not worth to yot
81 so per year, discontinue it by all means, ant
invest your money in some more profitable man
nor