Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-06-19
c. ON M u N | G A I E D.
ELE8CHANDIsE, AND ECON
Cray.

Mr.. EDIToR:-ln your paper OF June
9Th you inform your readers that the
plaltevie Examiner will be discontinued.
In reading the notice | was pleased, as
often have been, in observing your noble
and generous spirit in wishing other pa
pers and editors to live and prosper IS well
as you and yours. In the notice you re-
fer to the causes why two papers cannot
live in Grant County, (namely) that our
County is surrounded it'll cities, railroads,
&c, &c; and that there is in the people
Ia proneness to palronize foreign rather
local interests.
Now sir, we go in for supporting our 10
cal interests, SO long as the benefits are re-
|ciprocal, and we would make some sacr5
fee, but we do not like to be shaved too
close. AS regards newspapers we like the
Herald well; we admire the course it takes
and while it battles the wrong and ad
vocatca the right so unhinchingly we shal..
hail it with pleasure; but it is said that
people go from home to buy their mer-
|chandise, and in reply we say is there not
"a cause; is it not an undeniable fact that
goods can be purchased SO much cheaper
at Dubuque, Galena or Platteville than
they can at Lancaster, Po,osi and other
stores in the ncighborhood, SO that if the
people take their dollars elsewhere the
merchants have themselves to blame.
have talked with many farmers living
near Lancaster that talk of joining togeth-
er and fetching their goods by the load
from some Of the former places. Our
merchants, like the person who killed the
goose that laid golden eggs by being too
much in haste to get rich, defeat their own
purpose by causing their customers to seek
q cheaper markc:-but word to the wise
is enough. LIVE AND LET LIVE.
NoTE.-We intended no censuse of
those who go to -Galena or elsewhere to
buy cheap; we only intended to state a
facts that there arc several cities with
railroads, tolegraphs and other attractions
and news facilities, just near the border and
all round Grant County-that such attrac
tions and facilities provide the material for
popular newspapers which Platteville nor
any other place in Grant Co. cannot sup
|py. Hence, the E:ganainer failed; in
deed, there is scarcely support for one
newspaper in the county. We do our
utmost to keep up with Galena, Dubuque,
Prairie du Chien and other neighboring
city papers in order to prevent their taking
entire possession Of the reading people of
Grant County. We are tolcrably success
full in the free competition, having more
Subscribers in the county than all the doz-
len city Offices of the FIVE surrounding
cities. We resort to no meanness nor un-
fairness to win. Our strength is in our
independence and manner Of stating facts.
Their strength is in their news material
and local attraction. We beat them on
principles AMI in manner of conducting q
newspaper. When they publish better
|or cheaper newspaper than the Herald,
let our readers stop the Herald and send
for the city papers, for we ask no favors.-
Free trade, no favoritism and buying
goods or Intelligence aohere to be had tie
cheapest, compose our motto. We prac-
tice broad track democracy as well as pro-
fess it. We condemn the merchants, who.
like the person that killed the goose that
laid golden eggs, defeat their own pur-
pose; we would say to customers, trade
where you can buy the cheapest and of the
best-though we believe most sincerely
that goods can be had at retail cheaper at
country stores than in the cities; country
merchauis have no high rents, extrayagart
families and corporation taxes TO bear
city merchants have all these and more !;
the former can afford to sell at lower prof
its than the latter. AT least, we can al
ways buy cheaper at village stores than at
city stores. Perhaps groceries and heavy
articles are little cheaper at Galena than
at our village stores, but we know dry|
goods and light articles are cheaper at
country stores. Thanking the writer forI
q flastering notice Of US, We return himI
coed vii, Ed. Herald.