Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-09-21

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70 say We have reached this point
without discouragcmcnts and draw
backs would distinguish our enterprise
as successful beyond ordinary ven
lures. We have only to say thai or
progress has been marked by inces-
SAINT peroqsl labor and sacrifice, the
details anfextent Of which only We
will ever know. The paper has pass
ed crises that, in less determined hands,
would have overborne and crushed
out its life. From the first until
now, and from now henceforth, 1t
has been and is our cherished de
sire to make the JOURNAL q perma-
nent institution Had we wished less,
our career would have been ended,
and the paper numbered among the
category of things almost forgotten.
Enterprises of this character are nee
essarily full Of venture. Popular
wants, appreciation and support, are
uncertain and capricious. The ex,
tent of one or all can only be ascer-
tanned by experimental test which
requires time. labor and economy to
develop their correct proportions.
Success is happy result for the com
munity failure is, to those immedi
ately involved, downright disaster.
Many people commit the great error
Of Withholding support until they see
whether an enterprise succeeds. The
time in which it most needs susie
nance is the one in which they dis
courage it, In very many instances
the reasonable consequence is q fail
ure of what, with a little help from
the right quarter, might have been
creditable journalistic representative
of the community. Then these wise
acres, iii the profundity Of business
acumen sagely pronounce the result in
accordance with their expectations.
Another better aiming but not much
more effective class, are those who
support the paper the first year Gin
order to give it start As il It pa
per, like mining car down plane,
only needed "a start The trouble
is they illustrate with the wrong car.
The upward bound one moro fifty
represents the local paper. Let US
help it up one, two, three, four rods
now, all hands and ropes off, it will
take care of itself OF course, it doesn t
so up-it doesn't even stand still :
the debris at the bottom tells how
something indispensably useful was
lost. Nay, more, it betrays in a pre-
eminent sense how a community per
mitted the most effective and telling
reflex Of its enterprise and intclli-
gence to 90 to disaster and nothing
ness. We need not, probably, hint
here that long established fact that
newspapers assist in building and Civ
ing character to the town-how, in
deed the standard of the town is read
lily indexed by the appearance and
makeup of the local paper-how its
business is invariably depicted in its
Observation-Disclosures its locals cxhib-
it its activity. Or, on the other hand,
how It's appearance may display a
striving to contend with the grasping
thousands around it, and an effort to
wiring an existence from the close
listed community Of business men
whose champion it always is. The
local paper needs steady solid, general
support, not for a year only, but for
years excessively. Thus sustained, it
must ascend the "plane' of American
journalism-a "plane' to which as yet
no summit is disccrnible.
We might classify others who have
and will fail, from impractical and
frivolous reasons, to encourage us, but
the preponderance has been so largely
in our favor that We gladly turn to
more satisfactory feature Of the sub
ject. We have repeatedly received
assurances from numerous sources Of
the acceptability of the JOURNAL, all
of which are valued highly as coming
from ladies and gentlemen amply
qualified to Judge. Were these flat
tering testimonials not tangibly OK
pressed We should not esteem them
worth mention here
TO such as these, with others who
have outdone all, our success is due.
The interest felt by some in the estab-
lishment of a paper in Frostburg is
such as to make it q success. What
ever there is of credit in it is largely
due to them
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