The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1858-04-29
COMMUNICATIONS.
For the Potter Journal
A PLEA FOR POTTER COUNTY.
No. VI.

No. VI.
Believing that quality is not deter
ulined by quantity, we feel little hesltan-
cy in putting in our "Plea" for those
who own and publish Country Paper.
We do this the more freely, since there
are those who seem, to us 1T least, to have
mistaken notion Of the nature and office
of Country paper Our own opinion
upon this subject is, that Public J0qF-
nal ought to be conducted by person
whose general knowledgeis is every way COM
petent forthe task and he should present
his readers with paper every way worthy
of their perusal Let the articles be as
pointed as it is possible for them to be,
only let them be true. Let them sting
men to the quick, only let the language
be chaste and strictly proper, and we say
20 on. We say toe, that Country Pa
per ought to disseminate general informa-
tion upon all subjects in WHICH the peo-
pie have an interest, No country paper
can be sustained by advocating any one
thing, no matter hoy important that one
thing may be- This does not arise from
the nature Of the subject to be advocated,
but from the paucitY of those interested
in it. In the country some are interested
in Politics, some in Religion, and some
one thing, some another. Now it requires
all of them together to support paper,
and all ought to help in this: Should |
indulge in strong drink, | think it would
be further mark of my folly were | to
get angry at the Editor for publishing
something in favor Of temperance; and
buster out my thunder in telling him to
stop my paper If no man would support
a paper unless it met his own views, and
that, too, upon every subject, we ask who
would subscribe E? and for eyhat paper i?
All that a man can ask is, that, should
the paper present anything in a false or
wrong light, he have the privilege to cor
rect the mistake through its columns
This is fair and We conceive all that ought
to be required. Ii this be admitted We
earnestly ask why not give hearty sup
port to papers published in our county.
MuItitudes send for Papers which are
published at a distance; with this we
have nothing to say, but home should not
/ be forgotten. We confess here that we
are not fully informed about the sappor,
which the county paper receives, but
judging that it shares in the lot Of other
professions, we have spoken as above
/ The narration of fact reported to have
been done at distance, is never clothed
with the power, nor the interest Of that
which is done near by. Still further, ev.
cry person in the county should feel him
or herself bound to furnish for publica-
ton everything Ehich can BE Of interest
to the community or the public at large
Then give the paper your support, give
;. it the benefit of your abilities, and let II
be part of your business that the paper
shall be a Hring reolity; because, We
look upon paper as being somewhat O
an index to the people among whom it Is
published; because, we look upon thi:
in somewhat the same light as we lool
upon public bujldtngs They ought tt
be the pride of the people, so ought the
newspaper; it ought to be looked at b,
the people as child of their own, in which
they feel the deepest interest. Sustain i
: then by all the means in your power, anC
its fruit will pay back with increase.
In order that there might be o righ
distribution of york we would put in ou
'Plea," also, fQf the Ladies. In the ligh
.. in which ,re Judge, we would assign t
them the whole work of teaching tn
Common Schools in our county, not fo
the purpose of having the teaching don
cheaper, but because they can do it jus
} as well as men can; and, ifsQ, they ough
to have just as much pay forit. We cor
fess our reason has often been beEildere
j when We have thought that Yoma
: who teaches the same school just as we
as a man, and he gets $50 per mont
: and she only SIS. Can any modern PHI
e losopher help us out of our difficulty i
t understanding this? 1t just locks to u
t like getting Tailor to make vest for u
: he charges us 81 so, but gets q ,ooma
: to make 1t, for echich he pays her Is cts. j.!
If the vest is worth 81 80 to make it, wh
e rob the woman by paying her only OF
d half? Or if she gets enough why rob tt
e person who gets it made out of 70 cts
r So we reason with teaching school If
e is worth $50 per month for man TO teac
It it is worth the same to woman wi
V does the same work equally as well. "
# have asked a reason for this aud ha'
i been answered that women did not nee
y as much money as men; that their cloth
e do not cost as much. But this is n
n true. Ladies' clothes cost as much