Freeman's champion., 1858-05-27
Newspaporlal.

out q seyen-column sheet, made a
terrible ado about what it was going
TO do, and in less than five weeks
from the appearance of the first num-
Der it jumped down to one-half that
size four columns smaller than the
ChaoYion), which size it retained
until its defanction, about y month
later.
The Kanzas Free State, at Della
ware City, was an eight-column
paper. 1t lived only three months.
During the past year no less than
three seven column newspapers
Register, Citizen, and Democrats Ar
gas,-have been ushered into exist
ence, breathed a little while and died,
at Wyandott City,a town claiming
fifteen hundred inhabitants.
Two papers of a size larger than
the Champion have lived and died at
Atchison during the last six months.
The Runzas Leaders, seven column
paper, Published at Centropolis, has,
after. experiencing sickly existence
Of about one year, at last "kicked
the bucket" it is said. We would
not be surprised to learn that its pro-
prietors had "bled." to the amount
of five hundred dollars.
All of these papers were ably con-
Quoted journals. and most of them
we're wofthy of better fate. Had
not their publishers been possessed Of
the same spirit that pervaded the
heart of the ambitious frog, they un-
doubtedly would be living now.
Their iaiings consisted in tkeir efforts
to compete with older papers, pub
lished in leading Kanzas towns.
They seemingly could not compre'
hcnd the difference between a COM
paratively unmhabited prairie and
city, in their respective bearings to-
wards the support of newspaper.
They did not seem to consider that
in towns like Lawrence, Leaven-
worth and Topeka, the receipts for
advertising and job work, which is
emphatically the life andsoul of the
publishing business in Kanzas, would
reach twenty-five dollars where they
wcul one in such towns as Cen
tropo is, Prairie City, Delaware, DC
Had they taken more practical,
commons sense view Of the case, and
published papers Of dimensions more
in accordance with the size Of their
localities, they surely, from the evil
dences manifested, would have Cx-
hibited more wisdom.
There is not newspaper published
in Kanzas that is, Of itself, a paying
institution. Every one I Lawrence
Republican and Topeka Tribune per
haps--exceptod) that has not been
substantially bolStcrsd up by pecu-
mary assistance from outside sources,
has been compelled to "go under;'
and the occasion Of this state of
things may be attributed more than
to any other cause to the efforts OF
their publishers in overriding the
thing.
We hope hereafter to hear no more
complaints about the size Of the
Champion. ltis larger now than the
community can well support, Towns
in the States at least ak times as
large as Prairie City have papers
published in them smaller than the
Champion, and even iu Doniphan,
Kahzas, a town boasting oil one thou
sand inhabitants, their poper--the
Free PreSs--iS one-third smaller than
the Champion. Osawatomie, with a
population tripling ours, has q paper
of the Champion size, II tcommencod
a larger sheet, but its proprietor,
being an experienced practical printer
saw the impossibility Of existing long
at that rate, and 30 reduced his sheet
in conformity with its support.
We have no disposition to reduce
tho liSe Of the Champion. On the