Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1865-03-16

.OHESHlRE, reD. Id, lDOo. 81
Mr.. STEWART I'm o. late number of the
Joarnal ! was pleased to read an article in
the farmers column, from a subscriber near
Rodney, on the necessity Of newspapers IL the
family
| trust the writer of that letter will not stop
there. His remarks are well timed, and we
assure him will have good effect.
You invite the farmers and other classes to
send communications to the Journal This
may be easy for lawyers, doctors and preach
ers to do, but for a rough listed farmer, the
thing is not quite so easy as hoeing potatoes.
The lawyer might send you an essay on the
policy of keeping out of the clutches of the
law. The doctor advice would be swallowed
with more satisfaction than his pills, and the
arguments of the preacher might be read with
profit by larger congregation than he could
ever expect to have. ..-.a ...... . .
But all this would be against their interest,
and few there be nowadays, who will act
wholly for the public good. ".'
Farmers as O class are not so selfish. If
we have light on any subject, we are willing
to impart it to others without fee or reward.
The farmers column in the Journal gives us
this chance 1t is one of the best improve
ments in your paper, and if you could spare
US two columns, it would be still better
There are intelligent farmers enough in this
county to fill them every week. We may
murder the king s English little, and not be
able to explain our ideas very fully, but that
| is matter you can amend.
| Now started out intending to say somet
thing about farmers supporting their county
paper In Cheshire we do this tolerably well,
yet, am sorry to have to say, that there are
several good Union men among us who are
too saving of their dimes to invest the small
sum of two dollars in the Journal Yet they
neighbor This shows they approve of the
sentiments Of the paper, and therefore it must
be that they dislike to part with the dollars
hope some Of them may read this, and open
their hearts enough to send in their names
with the two dollars They are anxious to
have their children educated, but don't see
that the best education their sons can have
will be of little use, when they go into public
life, unless they have knowledge of the bust
ness of the county, which they can only have
by reading the county papers.
I sec the Legislature are endeavoring to
punish truancy at school, and are using every
means to obGge parents to send their children
to school. Now | think they should 60 one
step further, and oblige every head of fami-
y to take newspaser of some kind and pay
for it, and any head Of family too poor to
do so, should be furnished at the expense of
old bachelors, who would 4us be doing some
thing for their country.
Now, if You are not already out of patience,
Mr.. Editor, will only add a word to farmers
from other townships Let us hear from you
on this subject. When any great political
measure is presented to us, it is agitated and
talked about. Agitate this newspaper ques-
ton In this crisis Of our country no man
can afford to be ignorant or rnise his family
in ignorance. The want of newspapers in
Southern families, brought on this war. Had
they been rightly instructed, by the free use
of papers, we would to-day have been at peace,
So, here in the North, wherever you find a
rebel sympathizing Copperhead community,
there you don't find newspapers. Don't you
see it? OREM.