The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1872-05-30
Letter from jacksonville.
EDIToR BNTERPSi'E


Error RSTERrSi'E
! see in your last issue, that YOU think
OF severing your connection with your
valuable paper, il the people do not pay
you against the lu Of July, The people
who are Indebted 10 you, or any other
publisher Of a paper, surely ought to pay
their dues promptly. The amounts are
generally small, and although times ara
hard there are but few men who could not
pay 80 small a summit they would only try !
The amounts TO each are very small,
while IL paid promptly, would make Il
considerable sun to you, and relieve your
embarrassment. You could give your
entire attention to your paper aud thereby
be Of more service to your patrons. |
hope your delinquent Subscribers will
think of this-see the point and at once
pay up. There is two sides to any queS-
tion. | have shown up one, and now |
propose showing up the other, The cOurso
YOU have decided to pursue, is in my
humble Judgment wrong as much 50 as
that Of your delinquent patrons, and no
one will doubt their being wrong, not
even themselves. In the first place we
are on the eve of tho most important cleo
ton that has ever been witnessed in the
United States. In fact it may DO the last
/ Presidential election VIC may ever partici-
pate in. Your services are needed OF this
particular time. You have been with us
for the last three wears, and have become
acquainted with the people, so as to un-
, derstnnd them better than a stranger
would. The people understand you,
You have pursued a straight forward, in
dependent course, not pandsring to any
man, or set of men. BY so doing, You
have succeeded in building no your pa
per from the smallest, to the largest sized
paper in Tennessee Ito say nothing Of
its neatness or ability.)
Now will you deprive those who have
and will sustain you, because your delin-.
quent subscribers do wrongl Surely not.
| could write much more on this subject,
but | think this is enough to convince you
and your delinquent patrons, that you are
both wrong. iOu may wish to ask me,
how You can run your paper without
meansl You cannot do 50. But let me
suggest to all of your paying subscribers,
that each Of US obtain a new paying sub
scriber, | will do SO. How many will Z
All can if they will only try. A small
effort on our part will make the ENTER
PRISE a success, SO let all try, and not
put it off, But try now. The sooner the
better.
Mr., Editor, will you please publish the
amount received from d~elinquents and
new subscribers, as it is received so We
may know of the success. Theu let all
subscribers at once respond, %delinquents
and all, and success is certain.
have spun this communication much
longer than | had expected.
SUBSCRIBER.
jacksonville, Tenn, May 25th, 1872.
In reply to tho above, we can only say
hat If our friends will respond promptly,
andd their duty to their county paper,Suc-
cess viii be certain. We wish to remain
here and serve the people,and will do SO to
the best of our ability. All we ask is a
liberal patronage, and prompt pay on the
part of those who are indebted to us on any
account. Since our last issue, we are
glad to state, FIVE new names have been
added to our list If each subscriber will
do as suggested in the above communion
tion our list will be greatly enlarged, and
We will be enable to give our readers a
better paper.