The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1879-09-30

w Moiuay CHc udlly HToTNtcT 1Uuc1 Suo-
pended publication. As the publisher did
not see proper to %nnounce his reasons for 50
doing, w shall not undertake to advance
any reasons for him but while thus abstain
ing we shall take advantage of the opportu-
nifty to say a few words on Montana newspa-
pers generally. Our observations very point
eddy are to the effect that there are too many
papers already in Montana that it would be
far better for the reading public Of this Ter
ritory IT their patronage were concentrated
on a few journals, provided the proprietors of
said journals had sufficient enterprise to make
the Improvement of their papers keep pace
with their enlarging patronage. Cauvassed
and drummed over as Montana is every year
for newspapers already established, the
founding Of a new paper hereafter in this
Territory will be a matter requiring a very
considerable capital, more especially if a
header be taken into the full current of ex-
pehse by publishing a daily at once. And
here, it We may be permitted to say it, is
where Mr.. Freeman made a mistake. He
undertook to publish a daily without having
established in this Territory the firm basis of
a large weekly circulation to rest upon ;
whereas if he had taken the trouble to con-
suit those already engaged in the business
and well acquainted with Montana's capabil-
ity in the way of newspaper support, we very
much doubt if even one publishing house
would have told him that its daily without
the weekly would be a pecuniary success or
would even pay expenses. The information
lie might have secured by applying for it in
the proper quarter he has since learned by
costly experience, and the ruinous expert
ment is abandoned before it is yet too late.
We ale not informed as to Mir. Freeman's
intentions, further than that he will continue
the publication of the weekly Inder, for
which he has a large list Of paying subscribers
throughout Utah and Idaho. Gradually [the
normal growth of the newspaper is gradually
the paper will win for itself support in Mon
tana, and then, when the proper time arrives,
lies, the daily Inder will again throw its BAN
her to the breeze. Butte at present doesn't
support one daily. Whatever may be the
experience of other publishers we frankly
confess that our daily is a large bill of ex-
pense, and that if the weekly were not bring
ing us in a handsome revenue the daily could
not be published at all. For all this the
daily will continue to be published. Nc
danger of its discontinuance, even if the
profits of our business were doubled
or trebled thereby. By and by the people of
Butte will come to regard their daily paper
as anecessity, and when they do they will give
it better support. Occasionally some of our
friends get veXed at what they are pleased to
term the "cussedness" OF the MINER, but
their Gispleasure never lasts very long. A
paper must other be a milk-and-water affair,
too timld to pronounce an opinion on any
subject about which sentiment is divided, or
else manly and outspoken, proclaiming what
it believes to be the truth, NJ matter whose
toes may be stepped upon in the operation.
The latter is the course taken by this paper,
and it is to this course that we intend to adj
here. In discussing questions of public i'll
terest or in describing events which may
transpire we shall never have either friends
or foes, but instead, every nan shall be treat
ed with the respect we think he deserves, and
what we say about him will be the truth SO
far as we can get at it. A somewhat intimate
acquaintance with the Montana character
convinces us that a paper of this character
will win, and it is a paper of precisely this
character that the MINER will continue to be,
Those who admire its platform will be vel.
come to its subscription lists; those who fan.
cy the milk-and-water style will be equally
as welcome to bestow their patronage in some
other quarter.
From Thursdays Daily.I