Arizona citizen., 1873-12-13
About Newspaper Patronage--LocaI Pride and BuSiness--Some Refer eRce to Cold-bIOOded Facts.

The Daily Arizona Miner appeared De-
 cember l, as per announcement-the ma
 terial points of which we copy into THE
 CITIZEN. The paper presents good ap-
 pesrance, as all printing by that office
 does; and whether the proprietors be-
 lleve it or not, we hope they may be able
 to make the daily success. We have no
 faith that there is sufficient patronage in
 Arizona to properly maintain a daily
 paper. We don't think any weekly has
 enriched its proprietors, nor are the pros
 poets bright that they will very soon; nor
 can it be said that the weeklies are not
 creditable according to the circumstances.
 The Miner and CITIZEN have no superiors
 as weeklies on the frontiers, nor can any
 of the old States show two as neat and
 well-flled papers. We only state fact
 known to every printer and editor who
 see TIE CITIZEN, that it is now mechan
 ically model, and in its attention to Ari-
 zona interests, can hardly be eXcelled. It
 prints more matter in the same space
 than any paper ever did in Arizona, and
 not one within our knowledge equals
 it in this respect. In these statements,
 there are no bids for patronage. The
 proprietor of this paper is independently
 poor and always expects to be. He has
 never sought patronage by trimming to
 anybody or measure and would only de-
 test himself if he ever should. Excepting
 E. D. Wood, our merchants get their
 cards and bill-heads printed in San Fran
 cisco or New York, and we find no fault.
 On this basis, they will mainly patronize newspapers from abroad If The Daily
 Miner could be got here in advance of the San Diego dailies, we presume it
 would be preferred if its news continues
 of sufficient interest. At present we do
 not see that The Daily Miner can hope for
 many subscribers south of the Gila, for
 the reasons that its price is S20 per year
 and it cannot be received any quicker
 than the San Diego dailies at half the
 price. Our people talk it this way. Busi-
 ness is business, says everybody, and
 many here now say that San Francisco is playing a hog game in sales to our mer- chants, and the trade to considerable extent is going to the eastern cities. It may be said local pride should make men support their local paper. Admit it should, and it must also be admitted that 1t don't. A few feel and act upon local pride, but the masses always have and al ways will act upon cold -blooded figuring of how and where to get the most for the least money. Gush as we may now and then under the inspiration of some i'm portant local event, it will usually be found that just as the eXhilerating effects of the champagne die away, so does all local pride which costs money to main- tain-and headache comes on. Speculate and figure and crate as we may, the mass of men-especially those who come with in the class called "business "-make a l Practice of spending cash for the quickest tangible returns. Everyone is pleased when some one else spends money fer the future, and nearly all laugh at such an one when he fails. "He meant well but any " fool might have known better," say the exact business class. Valueless sympa- thizers say "what pity so liberal tel- low has so little sense."
 Again we sincerely say that we hope The Daily Miner will be a success We also | say to the gentlemen of Arizona, that when we give them paper so costly that it will break us down in health or means, | or both, we shall expect no sympathy and would only despise the kind that would be rendered; and we further say that in all our newspaper experience, we never have had better support-comparatively speaking-or more prompt and willing payment of dues, than in Arizona. Mur- dered and plundered by Apaches as they have been, and business unsettled by trifing military commanders and heartless and demoralizing peace commissioners, the only wonder is that any thing not an absolute necessity to existence has been built up. THE CITIZEN has tried to be good and true to Arizona interests and often too when it was the judgment of