Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1869-10-08
AMus1NeLY -R1p1ou1ous.


To q man couvsrsant with Newspaper
business and management, one of the
most sxquisitsly whimsical features in
the comic world is to note the air Of
defiant reeklessness; tho authoritative,
crushing tone, the unrelenting, resolute
style Of the mar who, having Become
angersd at something he has read, edi-
torially setting forth positions and ideas
at variance with his own, says Stop
my paper |" He expects the carrier,
the agent or the editor to whom this
fierce mandate 10 spoken, to wither be-
fore his disappearing gazette Ego
down in his boots" as it wsrs-and he
knows he has dealt a death blow at the
vital ~sustenancs, the life of the paper.
He Is surprised to notice no effect what
ever; the order is taken ~provokingly
cool and unconcsrned, and he is aggra-
waited afterward to see that the paper
gets along precisely as well-and per-
haps better-without him or his patron
age. He little considers that in a
financial way ho has simply injured the
paper to the extent Of his few cents a
week, and no more, and that the loss Of
a hundred just such subscribers in q
list of $500 or 1000 is not psrceptible.
The greatest joke 10 the matter is on
himself. He feels s.sort Of malicious
interest in the paper afssrward, and,
hoping to witness its death struggles, he
feels compelled to read it. In order to
do this he has to %pstronize some saloon,
restaurant or other place where the
paper is taken, thus msanly reading i,
at somebody else's expense.
Then, too, there is tho advertiser,
who acts on the same ridiculous prinei.
pie in ordering his advertisement taken
out. He also is greatly surprised aud
aggravated to notice sfterward that he,
too, is not missed, but on the contrary,
under tho peculiar local circumstances
and diversity Of public opinion, the
paper is the gamer, in that in compen'
sation for the loss of his own advertise.
ment, three or four other better paying
and moro important ones have taken its
place. Here, again, the joke is on him
self. He is the only loser-the only
victim. He advertised in that paper
solely as a matter Of business, and be.
cause it was a source Of profit to him,
and no is not long in discovering thai
in taking in his sign-so to speak-hs
has simply bitten of his own nose
hurting himself only and nobody else,
And now, also, he finds that the paper
thrives better without him, and in fac
don't want his advertisement at all any
mors,- considering his patronage toe
tickle and unreliable to be worth having
A well conducted, Independent news
paper, should always express its homes
opinion on all matters of public inter
est, violation Of law, and all interesting
} points in the general welfare, regardless
on whose. heads condemnation falls
and such a curse is always sustained
by the higher order Of public opinion
and the rig~ht-thinking among the gen
eral masses Of the people. All wit
foolishiy contend against this idea, o
try to injure the circulation or business
OF a paper for so doing, are worse thai
wasting their time, and will eventual!
ind that all such injury will revert bacl
upon their own foolish selves. W,
recommend the careful reading of tn,
above remarks by those seventeen busy
do-littles at Virginia, who cruissd abou
from one saloon, restaurant and bust
ness place to another, for three or foul
days, trying to break down our sub
seription list. Not one in the who'll
seventeen ever took the News and paid
for it-they were all Democrats, and
those Of them who can read are vel
come to the use Of the paper we post on
our bulletin board daily for free public
perusal.