Richland beacon., 1877-10-27
The Country Press.

Do,bc city papers say anything in
regard to your parish Nothing 10
tLrv contain notices Of your schools,
meetings. churches. improvements
and hundreds OF other local matters
of interest which your home papers
publish without pay? Not 'n 'irn''
10 they ever say word caicuIa'cd l"
draw attention to your parish AMI all
in lis progress and enterprise! Not
line And there arc men who take
such contracted views of this matter,
that unless they are getting as many
.onare inches Of reading matter IN
their own a. they do in Il city paper.
thew think they are not getting 'he
worth of their money. IL reminds us
Of man who took the largest par OF
boots in IA box because the price was
the same Us the pair rluch smaller,
that fjcd hiu.-Il'c~t Ftttcio"a
>,JitCi
b The above observations are in the
main correct The city papers, how
ever. give more allen,io" to country
interests than the Sentinel credits
,tcm with; bat i! is none The less
true that il is the parish paper which
looks fully and especially alter the
home interests of its people. y well
edited country paper is OF invaluable
service 10 q community, and every
citizen of the parish should subscribe
for it and pay for it in advance before
he thinks cf taking any Other journal.
There are no papers We READ with 50
much pleasure rs our live country
exchanges. They give US the class OF
intelligence which is cf most i'm
por,ancc to the public, and through
their cola nns we keep e' ropport with
the people Of every portion OF our
own aud neighboriDg States.
Among the country papers OF Lou,
isiana there are number conducted
with intelligence, spirit and lnde-
reudencc these papers we always
D know represent and influence the com:
" muuitv in which they are pin ted, anu
: ue attach great value to their articles
There are others which are almost a
II disgrace to their parishes and deserv"
7 no support. Tteyv are horribly
printed; they contain less matter lhan
i an apprentice could set in two day.
l. and they never furnish us with an IN
"a teiligent opinion or an item OF loca
d news. A live, energetic countr;
IL editor does more for his community
~ and generally gets less pay for 1t
VI than any other citizen of the pari.h o
county. However, there has beel
81 improvement of late years in Tn
ne respect. The country editor VIII
w. conducts good paper is no longer
ne as he used to be, sort of mendican
'u who is expected TO drink free whisky
live on So per week, and borrow tha
People read more newspapers now
the standard Of ability in c9untr
journalism has been raised, and IL
~ country editor, wLera az 70 70
worker, is a pan Of cOnscaneaa,,
nmong bis icliow-c citizens. Bu. -
IL country press can yet he improve
ith AID it is, it seems to US, the duty
md every citizen of a parish, where
er- cntcrnrising paper is published, to a
at the cditJr in improving it aud
ng, creasins its influence by substrlbI
ley to and paving cash for it. After
ms has done that, let him forward ca
ven order for the only rcpresentati
fler Southern and live newspaper in NJ
och Orlcans-the Democrat.-Ner
gets ieGns DfmbcrO'.
'ns Give US your hand on that,
md D'"'o''"'' ''' 'u "'' do S'"e' 'ou'
DOT. you are correct.
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