Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-01-15
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every good thoughtful citizen to IL
, IL duty, a d that Is, If he owes hi
4 county paper a dollar to march al
: like man and pay it, and, ii he i
, not already Il subscriber 10 go anC
do so at once. And here are thu
reasons for all this. The printer
, needs all OF the money that he ha'
earned during the past year. Ills
means are scattered al over the
country, and he cannot go around
and gather them UP. You should
come to him. He needs paper and
ink, has to pay cash for them, and,
in addition must pay his hands, buy
wood and coal, and get bread, meat
and clothes for himself all depend
ent upon him. The payment OF the
little that you may owe him will be
LOT no great Inconvenience to you,
but the want Of it is very great to
! him.
/ Now as to the other part OF our
| remark that you should take his pa
| Der. If YOU are not already doing SO.
First we affirm that it is to your
individual interest. The mere pub
1 LEGATION OF good newspaper IN a
1 county gives an actual, real PEE
cuniary value to all property owned
| in this county. We do not under
take to estimate how nuch, Dut the
| fact is demonstrable. What gives
value to land? Not the mere rich
ness or prodactiveness of the soil, as
essential as that is. 1t is the exist
ence of concomitant conditions. 1t
depends upon its surroundings-the
presence Of schools, churches So
ciety. facilities of trade and travel
in a word, the possession OF as many
of the results of civilization and
science as possible. The greatest of
ciyilizers has been the press which
pours its broad stream Of light
everywhere, lighting up darkness,
and penetrating the dense gloom OF
ignorance. With the swift moving
trains. that traverse the land bear
ing the produce of the county to dis
tant markets, and practically ami
hilating distance, with the steamer
that plows our rivers, upon ike
errand, we are quickened to life and |
renewed industry. The county that |
possesses most If these adjunctS Is
the richer. The counties that have
the least are the poorer. Ana that
is the reason that land5 in our por-
ton of the state, just as rich natu-
rally as in another portion, are I
worth a dollar or two per acre,
while the latter may be worth fifty
or a hundred fold more. Ground in
New York is worth millions of dol
lars per acre.-iust because it has
the more of the surroundings of in
telligence, and the rule holds good
everywhere.
Just suppose Sumner county had
no good turnpikes, no railway, no
telegraph office, no printing presses,
no churches, or good schools. just
the picture.
If the figures could be made we
doubt not that,the printing offices OF
GalIatin add more than the sub
scription price of $500 per annum
to every acre of ground of Sumner
1t may seem eXtravagant,
but it is not far from the mark.
All of those things make property
more valuable-the want of them
show poverty.
If we have newspapers they ought
to be good ones. The better they
are supported by their people the '
better they will be. The. bettersup-
port YOU give them the better able
The printers will be to inform them j
in every department. Slave them .
with mean, grudgery support, and
The result is apparent.
Now all through these rapid re- 5
marks we are putting it upon the {
ground that it is your interest to
nave good newspapers. DON'T hold
pack and give as your reason that q
you don't like the editors, that you
lon't agree with his policy, and s
Won't read his paper. That is the
lext thing to being born a simple G
on. OF what account is paper to '
you that merely echnes yOur"own /
opinion? III you would act very i
rather take the paper that e
-ou don't agree with, if you will a
axe but one. Just remember that v
III the smartness in the world is not c
II your head, and that maybe you 0
night learn something from the
,aper you don't like. Try it, and b
'on may wake up to the fact that n
our own notions are not quite as a
Iear right as you thought ali along. a
But recurring to the point at p
which we started, commence your \
ew year with IA liberal backing TO
our county papers, ind have a 81
lear conscience at the close. 81