Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-02-06
Country Newspapers.

Country Newspapers.
1t is a common occurrence, that citi
zens Of this county, who are not subscri
bers to our paper. come to our Office, buy
a single number, and say they woulc
ike to take it regularly, but they are
nowtaking one, two, or three city papers.
which contain more general news, more
politics and more miscellany than the
Chronicle, and that We print too many
advertisements. We grant all this may
be tue. Still they want 10 sec our pa
per in order that they may know what
is going on at home, but they cannot af.
ford to take so many papers. Now most
of these men are intelligent in ordinary
matters, but il never seems to enter their
heads. that the advertisements cost the
subscribers TO our paper not one cent
So far from it we could not print a paper
one half as large. if it were not for the
advertisements. There are not half a
dozen county papers printed in the Uni
ted States, in which the advertisements
do not absolutely pay for a part of the
circulation. The papers cannot exist
without them. The subscription lists arc
too small. And why is this Il is not
because there are not readers enough in
each county to sustain a paper, withou'
any advertising patronage at all, bu
simply because such men as those men
toned above do not help to sustain it,
They should recollect that the larger the
patronage of a paper, the better the pa
per can lie made. There will be more
news, and fewer advertisements, better
talent employed in its management,
and better material used.
Now we do not blame our friends fer
taking a CRY paper. Far from it. They
should do it, by all means, if they car
take more than one But they should
first patronize their home paper. And
they should not only take II themselves,
but they should use their influence 10 in
crease its circulation, and they should
also contribute, each man, his own mite
to increase its interest, by furnishing the
publisher with ccounts of any incident
Of interest which may transpire within
the limit Of the county or within the
bounds of its circulation. We repeai
that this is the duty of every citizen
And why Because by the local news
paper, Improvements Of allkinds at home.
are encouraged, sustained, noted and
brought before the public, property en-
HANGED in value, and the business O.
each individual increased and rendered
more profitable. The affairs of the coun
ty, the township, the village and the in
dividual citizen, are looked upon with q
feeling of interest by the conductors of
the local press, and the prosperity of the
former is carefully watched over, and
guarded by the latter, to the utmost o.:
their ability.
There aie a thousand matters of inter.
est constantly transporting in our midst,
which though they are but TITLES to the
world at large. AMI would receive no at.
tenlion at the hands of the city press.
which, still are of the utmost importance
to our W citizens, and which can be
obtained from no other source, than the
local newspaper. 1t is plain, therefore,
that however deficient in some particu-
lars, the country papers may be. still
they are invaluable to those residing
within the sphere of their influence, and
their places can never be supplied by the
larger and more pretending, but often
less useful city papers.