The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-03-05
Che Marietta gonrnal.
Marietta, Ga, Friday, March S, 1875.
SUSTAIN YOUR LOCAL NEWSPA-
PER.
A Few Sensible Thoughts for Marietta
Business Men.

Business Men
But few people appreciate that it
is their dnty to sustain their local
newspaper. In fact it should be es-
teemed pleasure to all good citizens
to extend not only all of their own
patronage to the local newspaper but
to induce their friends to do likewise.
If the interests of your community
are attacked, it is the local newspa-
per whom you all expect to rush to
the defence of your interest. If in
ternal improvements are to be made,
charitable institutions fostered, edu
cation advanced, morality sustained,
it is the local newspaper whom all
look to to assist in furthering those
noble causes. If any community pos
sesses natural advantages over your
competitors, it is your local newspa>
per whom you look to to labor to SO
impress the outside world. If cor
rupt rings get into power and Cypress
you, it is the local newspaper whom
You expect to expose their foul
deeds. If outside capital is to be at
tracted to your. community, it is the
local newspaper which is expected
to exhibit the advantages the capi>
talist will reap by bringing .his cap
ital and investing it among you.-ln
fact, no matter what is to be done
Tor the material or moral advance
ment of your community, you all ex-
pect the labor and influence of the
local newspaper. If individual en-
terprises are to be fostered and en-
couraged, the local newspaper is at
once appealed to, for all appreciate
the advantage of a good word among
strangers from those who know
man well. And yet how many per,
sons who have been assisted to the
top round Of the ladder forget their
local newspaper when they have
few dollars worth of printing to have
done, and fly away to strangers in
a strange land, only for the reason
that they can save few pennies.
We hold that the local newspaper
has a right to claim the patronage of
its business men. 1t earns time
over and again every dollar which
it receives, and we repeat that it
should be pleasure for them to ex-
tend it gracefully and joyfully.
If the merchant and business man
is right in sending abroad among
strangers his printing, what right
has he to expect the patronage Of
those among whom he lives. Sup
pose local newspapers were to use
their influence in inducing their read
ers to send abroad their orders for
every article of merchandise which
they might need, keeping them post
ed as 10 where purchases could be
made cheapest, would not the public
howlY And yet this would be but
fair retaliation to those merchants
who send abroad their patronage in
his line.
The patronage extended to the To-
cal newspaper not only remains in
your community, and assists in sus>
tanning its material prosperity, but
it enables its. proprietor to publish a
newspaper which would be an honor
to the community and credit to its
business men. Nothing that we
know Of makes a more favorable i'm
preston upon the stranger in behalf
ola community than healthy, pros>
porous newspaper. 1t is prlma tacia
evidence that the town is made up of
live, progressive men, and is not
composed of narrow contracted
minded men whose whole aim and
object in lite is to make dime and
then measures its circumference
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