, 1857-11-20
Your County PaneF,


The following from Fowler and Wells Life Hustrd-
ted, is good and to the point, that we recommend
it to our friends with but few comments:
1--WE occasionally receive letters in which the wri
ters express their determination to stop their county
or village paper, and take our publications instead.
We always regret to receive such intimations. We
think man ought to support his own paper first, and
then il he af 1d to take paper from a distance
let him do so, aud we shall be happy to furnish him
Life Illustrated The county press j., in our opinion
the most important in its effects on the enlightenment
Of the nation. 1t conveys in thousand rlls intel
ligonoe 10 nearly every home In the country. The
country press ought TO receive cordial support. Ev
cry place should try 10 have its paper OF such ch,
acter that people could be justly proud of IT, To this
end let them pay promptly advertise literally, recon
mend warmly, and in every way stand by the editor
as long as they can conscientiousy."
Much has been said Of the newspaper, and much
still remains to be said In its favor 1t is the source
through which the world is made acquainted with all
that is trnnspirng at home and abroad. 1t is the
source from which many great men collect facts to
string out long speeches. In fact, the newspaper
does for the locality where printed and circula
ted than all other things combined without news
papers what would be known of this village and vi
cinity in foreign lands? The paper Is made to rum
pet the rise and progress Of our town aud country
regardless Of all political and personal feelings. II
tells Of the merchants-"the hotels, the drugs and
medicines, the lawyers-the doctors and all 0thel
classes 1t tells of the improvements, and, in fact
as the printers dera once said to the man who wantet
to know what kind Of machine the printing pres
was?
why, the world is brimful Of live bright, indus
trious thoughts, which would have been dead, if il
k.1 lno, q, bo,- Etn vrho ho the NJ
rollers Immortality, indeed! Why, peoples minds,
he continued, with his imagination climbing into thu
profanely sublime-"people's minds wouldn't be i'm
mortal If it twasnt for the printerat any rate, il
this planetary burying ground"
This is the fact men without tie printing pres
would grow up like plant-aOurish and expand 70
few short years and then die down and pass away
and never again be heard Of. Yet, with all the &C
knowledged benefits Of the press we can find in ou
own enterpnsing village men of wealth who do no
take the paper What are such men to he valued o
by the community? Valued because some unlorseel
circumstances over which they had no control, hav
enriched them. Nothing else could have given then
place and fame-nothng else would do it. The pres
has assisted greatly in building up men, and yet h
newspaper is not even a secondary necessary will
many Of those who have grown great through its nu
ence. The press is the source upon which railroa,
companies rely for much of their success, and tn
press has been the Of establishing and bGildnI
many roads and those roads, through the rise of pro
perty have enriched many persons who now sit dow
and fold their arms and appear to think that it re
fleets credit upon them TO declare that they do no
take any paper. Subscribe for your own papers first
and then take as many as you can afford to SEN
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