Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-03-24
Encourage Your Country Newspaper.
Pomeroy's Democrat.

tlemcnt of bills and encouragement
to enterprise, the editors of all papers
which are helping to herald improve
ments, great or small. There never
was newspaper, no matter how
small, that was not worth more than
the price asked for it. AS light is to
time, to growth and r1pening of fruit,
SO is the press to thought and to pro-
gress. Some men are too poor to
take paper. No man is rich enough
to do without Ole, aud more if he can
obtain them. Food for the stomach,
food for the brain, are alike nccess Try
to perfect growth. The editor who
is encouraged will be better editor
next year than this, unless he be a
snarling, selfish, growing, egotistical
old bundle of cross-grained antagon-
isms, begotten in spite and at natural
enmity with all the honest world
But such abnormal monstrosities are
few. The ordinary edl;, L Is man
of brain, thought, power, intelligence.
A student of nature. y thinker. A
sympathizer of his fellow men if
they will permit him to grow to them.
In all the Western and Southern
country, especially, industry Is plow-
ing for enterprise to plant. Here
abouts are hundreds of newspapers
lamps IN the hands of genius to light
the people on TO the way to better
and more beautiful homes. Why not
give them u New Years gift? Why
not settle up with them-pay all you
owe-pass receipts and begin the
New Year arlght? That is the way
to help men who help others. That
is the way to make your home paper
better. That is the way to crowd
your village ahead. That is the way
to sustain the always needed, bat
never properly appreciated, country
editor. We have been there and
know all about it. We know how
good a man feels to be spoken kindly
to-encouraged and made strong in
his good intentions. Kind words
did the business.
1t would be good idea for every
editor to prepare a rousing New
Years paper-an address, so to speak,
to tell therein how much his place
had grown-who were ahead and
who ought to be dead. To give a
resume of yearly business, successes,
enterprises, etc, of the village; TO
tell in a general and special yhow
everybody from the cradle maker to
the grave-digger had got along dur
ing the past year; to tell who had
succeeded, who had kept honest, and
who had turned up rs tramps or
thieves. Then it would be just the
thing for every resid mt Of the place
to buy from ten to hundred copies
of such Il New Years address and
send them far and wide, to every
friend, relative or acquaintance, that
the ones who received such papers
would know of the place where the
senders lived. How such addresses
would call the boys from the sleepy
east to the live, rattling, growing
west. How such a disposition to tos
ter enterprise would encourage the
country editor, no matter what his
politics.
One reason why so many editors
consume their energies in the scram
bic for county printing and patronage
is because they are not half so well
supported by business men, farmers
and the general public as they should
be. They like to live. They mus,
live by some means. Too many of
them have no moral help, no senti
ment of assistance about them. They
are expected to live, but God only
knows how. They open offices, but
patronage is slow to come in. Sc
they 90 out to hunt for it. Then
their papers suffer and the scissors
are left in charge. They visit stores
mills and offices for items of news
and business, but do not find profit
Then they call into the saloons, join
hands with lawyers, set up little
ring and dabble in local plumbers
when they started out to be Journal
lists. Talk of what the papers owe
the public! The public owe the pa
pers quite as much.