Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1857-06-04
SUPPORT YOUR COUNTY PAPERS.


The following just and truthful remarks in ref
erencs TO the support Of Home papers we copy
from that excellent Republican paper, tho Ohio
STATE Journal, and would commend it 10 the es-
peria attention Of the people Of this county:
In every county in Ohio there sle at least two
newspapers published, generally one Of each po-
itical party. As general thing they are poorly
supported. The editor BIS TO be printer clerk
and pre@uan. He can III afford 10 devote much
Of bis time to the mere editing Of the paper
He depends more upon the ajObs" which ere
brought to bis Office, for support, than upon TIE
income derived directly from bis paper. II the
Republicans and Democrats 10 each Of the coun.
ties would each subscribe and pay in advance for
their county papers, they would do good work
for themselves, their families their party, and fOr
the printer. 1t is the local pres of the several
counties which, after all, has the most influence
upon the county elections and 1t is a shame that
they are not more generously supported.
As il is, the profits of the profession are conf.
ned. chiefly to the large cities like New York. Gin
cinnat, dc. The Tribune weekly has a very ez.
tensye circulation in Ohio, and yet it seldom con.
tains as much information Of real use to the sub
scnber as the well conducted county papers. The
city papers print large editions. They derive a
large revenue from their immense advertising pat
rouage. They are thus enabled to have large
corpse Of editors to take charge of the various de-
parments of the paper There are upwards of
forty persons engaged in the editing Of the Daily
Tribune exclusive Of their foreign correspondents
We presume that there are not less than ten or a
dozen persons engaged in the same way upon the
Gazette and Commercial Of Cincinnati. In this
way they are able to make much better paper
than country editor can possibly expect 10 make
who not only has to makehis own selections, write
bis own editorials but set up, print of, and mail
bis own papers. If the country papers were sup
ported with sufficient beEality, as they ought to
be; to permit the editor to devote bis whole time
to the editorial department, the people of the
country would be great gamers by it. As affairs
now stand, we can only hope that an effort will
be made in each county in the State to increase
the subscription lists Of the local papers, including
those of our own county.
One of the Cincinnati papers has frequently
sneered at the Columbus papers has done what
lies in it to iDjure them. If the Columbus pa.
pes possessed the means which that paper posses
ses to employ ASSISTANTS, perhaps The Columbus
papers might be made as useful and interesting as
those of the Queen City. 1t is hard work for one
person to edit daily and a weekly paper. We
have to examine half hundred exch anges in a
forenoon, gather the news and write editorials.-
This goes on day after day. month after month,
and is hard work. This is the way in which
the Columbus papers have to be edited, and in
stead Of heapiug abuse upon us, we think we are
entitled to some credit for doing as well as we do