The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-01-13
a WORD ABOUT OURSELVES.


newspaper are indicative of the
growth and prosperity of the town in
which it is published, and the region of
country through which it circulates.
1t is with no spirit of Boosting that we
are enabled to say that the circulation
of the Neacs is nearly three hundred and
fifty larger to-day than one year ago.
We perhaps have no right to boast for
with the increase of population which
has been given to Emporia and Lyon
county during the last year, a paper
that could not gain some additional
patronage would certainly be a poor
affair. Still we feel qualification and
pride which are but natural. Looked at
in one sense it may be true that we can
take no great credit to ourselves for an
increase of patronage that we could not
well avoid obtaining. so long as we
published paper that was at all credita-
BILE still, regarded in another aspect,
the case is not so devoid of credit to us.
A large share of the immigration that
came to us in the year 1870, as also in
previous years, is directly traceable
to the influence of the Ners. Over four
hundred copies of the Netcs fall every
week into the hands of as many per-
sons living outside of the state of Kan
sas. Nearly every new citizen who
comes to us has been subscriber to the
kEmporia Ne,cs in some other state, and
the number of those who, having come
to US during the year 1870, told us
that they first obtained the Kansas fe-
yer by contact with the Emporia NeloS,
has been surprisingly large. Thus we
have been instrumental, in no trifling de-
gree, in adding TO our population, and,
in this way, in increasing the circulation
of our paper.
We enter upon the new year with
much brighter prospects than we had
one year ago. We have not only lar
ger subscription list but also a much
larger advertising patronage, while our
Job Office turns out 80 per cent. more
work every week than at the beginning
of the year 1870. A reference to our
advertising columns, will verify the as
sertion that nearly all the patronage
which the paper receives from this
source is home patronage. We are tru-
ly grateful to our business men for
their very liberal support in this direc-
ton, there is no town extant-of the
size of Emporia-that gives more lib
eral advertising support to its papers !;
and whatever benefit the Nelcs is to
EmDoria is directly the result of this
Iiberality without it it could not pros
per, and probably not live. And we
submit, does not this iberality in adj
vertising pay? Is it not profitable !?
Even if the price paid out for adyertis-
ing does not come back in the way of
| increased sales consequent upon adver-
Using, do not the benefits derived from
immigration that may be directly traced
to the influence of live and widely
circulated newspaper, moro than COM
pensaIe for the money paid to the prin-
ter? But we venture the assertion that
those who advertise most largely, will
tell you that it pays to advertise, pays
in the matter of dollars and cents, di-
rectly derived from judicious advertis-
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and again by our most liberal patrons.
A prominent business man and most
liberal advertiser, remarked few days
ago: ''I have lost more than five hun
bred dollars because was away from
home and did not get back SO as to adj
vertise my holiday goods in time for the
advertisement to reach the eyes OF
your readers in the southwest" An
other said: 81 am confident that my adj
vertising in the weekly pays, and pays
well, for know that get country GUS
toners by the score that I would moi
otherwise obtain"
In our job department, we deem our
selves fortunate in having the services
ola skillful and tasty workman. There
are few offices in the State that are pre-
pared to do as good job printing as We
are daily turning out. We have expen
ded nearly thousand dollars during
1870, in increasing our facilities for eX
ecuting job work, and we are expecting
to expend probably as much more before
the close of the present year for thu
same purpose.
And now a word about our Daily
Some meddlesome persons who are not
perhaps, very good friends to us, per
sist in saying and endeavoring to make
others believe that we do not publish
; later news than the Topeka papers
, We do not see how they can possibly
succeed with intelligent persons, fol
even a fool, if he can read, ought to b'
: able to see that our afternoon dis
patches do not appear in Topeka
) DaiIies until the following day, TWEEN
} ty-four hours after their publication il
the NelcS. Yet we understand tina
some have the hardihood to deny this
: and the audacity to spread the repor
that we do not get the dispatches at all
but steal them from the Topeka papers
Well this is too much even for chris
tan patience and forbearance, neither
of which graces we possess to any
alarming extent.
But we feel good deal like the man
who having reached the summit OF a hill
with, Gas he supposedly load of pump
kins, and discovering that the end
board OF lIis wagon had given away anG
his pumpkins had all roIIea TO the foot
of the hill, concluded to say nothing a
all for he couldn't do justice to his indig
nation. We cannot do justice to ours
neither can we understand what such
consummate blockheads should want
with paper at all.
RAILROADS AND THE PEOPLE.