Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-05-26
Hear Him Howl!

The Democrat of q recent issue contained an
article in reference to its subscription list,
which we publish entire, considering it about
as interesting as anything we can give our
readers-particularly those who advertise,
The Standard also publishes it, and prefaces
it as 1.-THE semi-occasional wall of the Mon
mouth Democrat over its scanty subscription
list" We have recently learned the probable
cause of its appearance, and as the article was
published without a 'head," we prefix the fol-
lowing, which explains the matter:
THOUGHTS
SUGGESTED TO YE MIND OF YE EDlToR.oE yR MON
MOUTH DEMOCRAT, ON BEBoLDING ONE OF YE
"RIsING GENERATION" OF FREEHOLD IN YE ACT
OF RAISING A CLUB OF SUBSCRIBERS FOR YE
N. Y. WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
at is a fact that the circulation of the
Democrat isnot what it should be in this county,
and the reason of this is, that Democrats have
been careless in regard to it; in consequence
of this carelessness, opposition papers have
been introduced; not the county papers alone,
but such papers as the Tribune of New York,
the Trenton Gazette, and the Trenton True
Democrat. These papers are all engaged in
teaching doctrines that Democrats detest, and
yet, strange to say, they bring them home to
their families, and by so doing corrupt the
rising generation with their hateful doctrines.
In making these remarks, we speak not for
our paper alcne-for although we should like
every Democrat in Monmouth to be a subscri-
Der and reader of our paper, and believe that
the first duty of the Democrats of the county
is to sustain their county paper, yet we are
satisfied to see any good Democratic newspa-
per circulating here in place of the opposition
paper. The Times, at MidlletownsPoint, the
Trenton True Ameracan, and the New York
Daily and Weekly News, are all excellent
family newspapers, and commend themselves
to the patronage Of Democrats.
GAS many farmers 10 this section have been
induced to take the Tribune for the sake of the
Market Reports, we would say that the New
York Meas is not excelled in that particular
by any paper, and in other respects is not a
whit behind its older rivals.
"In conclusion, we again remind our friends
that we have no travelling agents to solicit
subscribers. We depend for the extension of
our circulation upon the friends of the paper
to recommend it to those who are not subscri-
bers.' If this were done at every convenient
opportunity, the circulation of the Democrat
would soon be doubled, and our means of in
creasing its usefulness and influence would be
correspondingly increased"
We cannot conceive why our neighbor
should recommend the circulation of the New
York Netos, and Trenton True american, in
Monmouth, when the Democrat is, week after
week; filled with the choicest morsels that it
can Gull from those papers-and more particu-
larly from the latter. When we take into
account the well known character of the True
american, and its anything but enviable repu-
tation among the people of Monmouth, we are
constrained to believe that the re-utterance of
its teachings" by its mouth-piece-the Demo-
crat-may, in a great measure, account for the
'Jaet," las our neighbor says, "that the cir
~culation of the Democrat is not what it should
in this county.n Those shoots that follow
and endeavor to i~nculcate the teachings of the
True american, if not already, will soon be no
better thought of than is it. 1t has for a long
while been engaged in teaching.doctrines that
Democrats detest,n and ardently seeks to cor
rupt the rising generation with its hateful
doctrines" But, thanks to the good common
sense Of the "rising generation" and of vast
numbers of the generations already risen, these
efforts are duly appreciated. The Democrat
would be as proftably employed in fishing for
whales with a pin hook, as trying to soap the
people into a belief of the absurd and well I'M
schemes of the I'M True american.
The Democrats reference to the Middletown
PIT. Times. is a well deserved compliment. The
Times is a good paper, and unlike those of
which we have just spoken, its position thus
far has been fairly maintained, and its articles
we'll and decentlg written.
We presume the Gazette, True Democrat,
and Tribune, will feel very bad should they
see this attempt on the part of the Democrat
to diminish their subscription list-particu-
larly the Tribune. We do not apprehend,
however, that either of them will be forced to
suspend business in consequence.
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