Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-02-18

| w poy tueiT taAes uutiif CudTHet
WIN penalty, aud perhaps until their
property is sold 10 pay deliuquencies; by
failing TO receive the premiums to which
the Annually published list Of our Agricu
tural Societies might show them 10 be en-
titled; and in varions other ways.
III. IL is tie dW y'of all those citizens
aehOlhabitua avoa themselves of The column.
Of Heir County Paper to avdance their in.
terests or CRAFTY their pride 10 subscribe and
pay for IL. We say this, not as suppl.
ant Tor unmerited favor, but because
justice to both publisb and subscribers
demands that IL should be snid. We have
no peculiar reason to complain, our pat
ronage being as large, il not larger, than
that of County Papers in generals vet we
entertain no doubt that, If all citizens of
the class above ment ioned should favor us
with their support, our, subscription lis,
would contain at least two thousoud names.
Aud why should it not? Every man who
seeks hearing through the press, 10 so
doing gives good evidence that it is of
some value to him aud why should he not
aid in supporting III BY refusing or neg.
lectlng to do 80, be becomes a consumer
but nou.prOducer. Does be ever ask him.
self how the paper which heralds bis name,
thoughts aud actions to the world, with
out money and without price," is sustainedH
we can assure all such that it does not
sustain itself, that it requires patronage
and that. if every body should follow their
example, could not exist. .sU -
Ill. Better patronage wM make bel Ter
papers. We are aware tha. i. may be
truly said that County Papers are not all
as coed as they might be made. The
country press can never compete with the
city press in the publication of general
news; it is idle to attempt it, aud no in.
telligennt reader expects it; but, within it's
own sphere, and for its own particular
objects, it can and should be made as in
teresting aud useful. In the variety and
character of its selected articles, it should
excel, and. in the ability of its original ar.
tlcles, fully eqnal. the city press AS 10
telllgence is no more abundant in the city
than 10 The country, there is no valid rea
son why the tone Of the country press
should not be as elevated as that of the
city press. But, to enable country pub
lishe's 20 make better papers, they must
be more generally and literally patr6hz.d
To such persons as my seek ~ establish
their own wisdoniand acuttnsss by decrying
everything useful in their own community,
and who, while reading little and apprecia-
ting less, make it q point, on occasions,
to sneer at our County Paper, we have
nothing 10 sayj but, 10 the larger and
more just and intelligent class. of citizens,
we freely confess that it falls below our
own ideal; and it shall he our constant aim
to cooperate with them in improving it,
Horace Greeley, though reputed chief of
the Editorial fraternity. could hardly be
expected to.produce Tribune in country
village, with less than one thousand sub
scribees; and, surely. more will not be ex-
acted of any of its bumbler members An
editor, to be most successful, should be en-.
able to devote ell his time to the Iabo-s of
his profession, and, to the extent that it is
necessarily occupied by other abors. his
efficiency as an editor is impaired. Make
the editorial profession as remuueratiye in
the country as in the city, and the county
will afford as able aid interesting papers
Liberal patronage will command the re.
qnjste skill as certainly as supply follows
demand r.
Nv. A paper IS regarded! abroad. as a
fair inde1 of The intelligence and thrsH of
the people ohere it is published. This pro,
portion is self,eviden', and needs no eluci-
datiop; and we merely state it as one of the
many arguments 10 favor Of a moro just
and liberal policy in regard to the country
press.