The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-11-22
Labor Lost.

per PUBLISHED at Tullahoma, winds up his
enterprise with the following r,h arsal of
his ex perience. 1t is, unfortunately, tho
experience Of more than one county news
paper enterprise. Some pasts of it are az
propIiate to our own community:
Before we commenced the publication
of our paper there was general complaint
throughout the community that we could
not get along without local newspaper;
and it was generally understood that all
our citizens, so soon as the enterprise
should be started, would rally at once to
our support. Relying upon the liborality
and COED wishes of our citizens we en-
harked in the enterprise, taking the entire
risk Of the concern upon ourselves. We
regret to say that our fondly cherished
ho. es have been colIly met our sanguino
expectations have been blasted and our
efforts f9r the public good have not been
appreciated. Those who promised most,
have done the least. and those who pro-
missed little or nothing, have gone beyond
their obligations. There are this dly fifteen
firms or individuals in Tull h)ma engaged
in different branches Of business, which,
depends entirely upon the public for sup
port and patronage. Yet so far as ary knowl-
edge Of that fact through the Apalachia,1 is
concerned they had as well be located in
! the kingdom of Askan'ee, or among the
unfriendly cannibals of the Friendly Isles.
/ Not more than one half of our people are
taking the paper at all, and half of those
who do take 1t, pay their fifty cents grudg-
ingly and act as though they think they
are giving US the amount. The delusion
that the people of Tnllahoma want news
paper is vanished and the idea that that
they will half way support such an enter
prise, has resolved itself into a stupendous
humbuE. The fact now s.ares US in the
face, that We a~ted the thing at our own
expense, will run it at our own expense,
aud get out Of il at our own expense. The
little pi;iful patronage that we are receiv-
ing. for which we are giving value receiv-
ed twice told, will not pay back one fourth
of the money we Lave paid out, to say
nothing of lime lost from paying business.
Without a change, when our three months
are out we quit, under the promise, that if
we can fnd an enterprising printer, wlo
will furnish his own types and material,
board himself and pay his own rent, and
furnish a newspaper for nothing and let
everybody in town assist in editing it
whether subscriber or not. we will at once
get him to locate in Tullahoma and until
such party is found appearances strongly
indicate that this far famed liberal and en-
terprising community will be without a
newspaper. The man now could live upon
the support now received by tho Apala-
chian, could make a fortune selling pea
nuts to wild monkeys, could convert the
snow capped Peak of Chimborazo into a
landscape garden, could persuade politi-
! clans to tell the truth, and could ride on
] a thunderbolt through a thorn bush and
not get scratched. We have tried the long
talked of newspaper enterprise in Tulaho-
ma. 1t done pay, it is a failure. It is no
fault of ours, we shall not cry, it is none
of our funeral Sic transit gloria nlRa1a.
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