Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1872-01-06

To rHK READHR.--il being the season
OF the year when q word personal Is in
order, we avail ourselves Of the yearly
privilege to say something " our paper
aud It's prospects Or course we are
ambitious 20 keep our circulation Of
the past year good, aud confess 10 con.
siderable anxiety 10 increase IL for tho
year 1879. To DO this we offer you for
the coming year paper almost exclu-
sively devoted to your home interest---
one that will note your progress and
improvements, aud your schools, your
churches, your industries ON the farm, in
your shops, aud IN whatever field Of
useful labor you are employed. This
should be the aim OF tic county paper
That il has been the alIn and purpose
OF the Times for the past three years,
you who have read the paper well know.
The great danger TO our own paper, aud
the local papers OF the country, lies IN
the ruinous competition Of the city press
These sheets, printed from the matter of
their dailles, cost but little more than
the paper on which they are printed, aud
can be afforded ut rates which would
sweep away the country press at once
or the value OF the city weeklirs usually
circulated in this section we do not
speak, only to admit that they are cheap
AT the price asked, aud well worth TAX
ing. But, candidly, did you ever stop
To thlnk that these papers neither know
or care anything tor You or your pros
pcrity, or for the welfare of pour town
aud county? You caunot take one OF
these foreign papers to the exclusion of
your home paper, without striking
blow at your own best interests. We
therefore ask you, in making up your
list Tor 1872, to put down your HOME
paper first, and then add such Others as
you may feel inclined.
The above is from the Geneva Times and al
though specially designed for that journal and
lis interests has n much broader application,
and the points made touch tire interests of its
co-laborrrs in the county. 1t shows with con
Il lerable force and clcarness, some of the diff
cul les W ich most of the local prints
and their proprietors have to meet and sirug-
gle against. OF course, where matter can be
used over the second time-maklng up a
ekly from the matter prepared and set for a
u uHi9- huNduihBC Is ntlu III making up
large, well filed sheet of general news. with
which it is hard to compete. The only re-
course of the local press is To give the reader
the best possible cOmpend of local and home
news. This ought to command home patron
age but if it does not, ard the home paper is
LEFT 10 driveland languish the qlesi;, is left
for solution-ls il policy, and can we afford to
neglect our own interests and institutions
those identified with our prosperity welfare
land distribute our patronage TO tl.Osc who
have no interest or concern in common with
us, and whose only Object is to gather up our
dimes to he expended in building ZIP of other
places and communities? This OF course, is
free trade, and lis effect is just what this thtO-
ry legitimatly imposes. While it is true that
patronage thus sent abroad leaves the hon c
paper TO leaunpss and struggle for existence,
The opposite course taking care of home in
trrests-builds up and strengthens home pa
pers and ADDS 10 their influence, power and
usefulness. There is, it seems to us, some
thing in this matter worthy of the reflection
of our citizens, and these appeals TO the peo-
pie of the county ought Net TO fall upon deaf
ears.