The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-03-07
a Very Petty Business.

They have found ou! THAI
they can n%or"Anprd' to exchange their
daily edition for country weeklies, and
the latter are notified that they are
hcnccforth TO be satisfied with the
Unlon and American in hebdomadal
doses, or else they are to he shut out
altogether from the enjoyment OF that
priceless boon,
The attempt is made to justify this pro
cedure Oh the ground OF economy,
The publishers Of the Union ana
American claim that neither reason nor
Justice demands that they exchange
q paper tic price OF which is ten dol
lars Tor one valued at two. Lot Us sec
how this is. II there were no extra
ncons considcrations--if the question
were only 4 commercial one of dollars
and cents--then the Claim put forth
would he fair and allowable. But is
this question Of dollars and cents all I
Is there nothing else to be taken into
consideration Let rs suppose Il ease
or two. Suppose, for instance, every
country weekly in the State were to re
fuse to exchange with the Union and
A merican--wha. would become Of its
columns Of State news, n Of the most
interesting features of its daily edition,
and which IS ~purioincd regularly from
its country contemporaries with equal
appreciation Of It's Importance and dis
regard OF credit to the sources from
from which it is obtained? Suppose,
again, the country press should take Il
notion to tell the people what every
newspaper man in the State knows to
be a lact-that, in point Of enterprise,
ability and everything which goes to
make a genuine newspaper, the Union
ard American is UNNECESSARILY in the
rear Of the journals OF other cities Of
!. the size Of Nashville. Suppose The
country press, induced Ivy the boast
which one OF the proprietors OF Tho
Union and, American is said to have
made, to the effect that, in a year ol
two, he intended to have such q well
organized and efficient corps Of co:
respondents throughout the State tina
the Union aud American silouid tax,
the place OF the county press, anc
render the latter mnnpccssary-sup
pose, We say, the country press, actu
alcl by this unmanly and ungencrVu
design 50 unblnshingly proclaimed
/ should rcturn it in klnl. and enter int
Il combination to render unncccssar
the existence Of the Union and Amrri
can outside OF Nashville. SUI pos
that the country press, during the re
' cent session OF the LEGISLATURE, ila'
! not ALLOWED, regard tor the honor q
u their own party and what they know
6 to have been unupprcciatci gencrosit..
to indncc them to suppress many facts
hut haI taken the liberty 10 print wha
they knew to he truc--would whitcwasI
have been quite as cllrctual, think you
Suppose, finally, that the country pres
| which this great metropolitan newSpa
| per regards AS not worthy an ~exchan4
:. should conclude now to tell what
knows about special legislation ant
the like, do YOU imagine that the odO
i in which the Peoples Own Paper woul
be held by the people themselves woul
he altogether as savory IS the roprj
ctors of the Peoples desire?
# Wesay nothing Of editorial conrtes
men who scarcely affect to conceG
the contempt in which they hold til
Z entire class of country editors coul
+ hardly be moved by an argument c
a this sort.
. We say nothing Of the habit of sue
papers as the New York Hcralh, tn
Louisville Courier Journal, the Mobil
Register and the like-a paper wl,ic
. initiates these great dailies in ncithc
enterprise, ability o interest is no
likely to follow their lead in the singl
:. item Of appreciation Of its contempora
ries
There is but one course for the cOun
Try press TO pursue, in order TO brin
these gentry TO their senses, and /
awaken them to that appreciation Q
the power aud dignity Of what they ar
pleased to call 'peunyroyal journalism
which they seem so strangely to ha"
. forgotten. 1t is for every countr
publisher to cut of, at once and tinall,
the Union and American from his eA
, change list to decline to send his pa
0 per to the Union and American, ever
=. tho pnnulsI lI,snriItIn i,ri,,n ln ntI.,
ed to refuse to be hrihed with lhci
precious weekly for which no countr
A paper has any possible use, ami, if
be sent, to return it post paid, as til
Herald has done, and finally, to resolv
that hereafter it will print the fail trut
k about all matters which concern tn
people, whether it hurt political frien,
= or foe. Let the country press unite i
) the pursuance Of this policy, and per
c severe in it until the next meeting q
f the Tennessee Press Association. an,
we shall see what we shall see.
/ Since the above article was put il
type We have received II letter from til
t publishers Of the Union and American
enclosing two dollars, and requestin,
that the Herald be sent to them. Til,
two dollars went back by the next mail
and the Herald will not 90 at all
Every independent publisher in thu
State, who is similarly approached
will follow Our example.
Right, Mr.. Herald. The HONE
Journal was on your side in the matter
before yon expressed Yourself.