Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1882-01-09
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The agent OF tho News in Gold Hill
says that q subscriber stopped his paper
last week because the paper published
An article which condemned Sunday
laws. The loss OF the subscriber 10
cause Of deep regret to the NEWS man
aeement, because it will miss the twenty
five cents per week which the subscriber
would probably have continued to pay
for the paper IL i. had not been con-
Quoted 90 as TO displease him. And yet
the fact that the NEWS says somsthine
tha. displsasss somebody is very grstify.
ing TO the writer. II be should write
week after week. and write nothing to
call forth criticism. be would feel badly,
worse perhaps than the management
feels to bs obliged to ioreso the privilege
Of receiving weekly twenty-five cents
from the aforesaid indignant subscriber.
Criticism Is something to DO desired.
and 10 q man possessed Of any spirit or
ambition. hardly anything can be more
depressing than absence Of criticism.
And there is one thing which the writer
will be happy always to foreso-ths fsi.
tering commsndaiion Of some. soft-pated
nincompoop. usually manifested by pat
ting ones back. and by the you're .
clever fellow" expression. because hs
writes nothing that displssses anybody.
When q man becomes so angelic and
mellow that the products Of bis brain
and pen are so iusipid as not to cause
intolsrant bisots and corrupt officials to
dislke them, 1t will be time for him to
prepare his ascension robe. The earth
will then cease to be . proper place for
his abode.
But, in all seriousness. what do peo-
pie expect Of Q newspaper Z? Do sub
scribers to q paper expect that II will DO
10 conducted week after week that every
article in it will please them 2 Even IL
there is something published in q news
paper daily that Is not in accord with
every subscribers views, is there not
sufficient in it that does please to mako
il worth the price Of subscription Most
certainly no subscriber thinks no can
injure q paper by spitefully stopping his
subscription to 1t, therefore no man
ought to be silly enough to discontinue
his paper for that purpose.
The management Of the News be-
lieves that it gives to every subscriber
the full value OF the money he pays for
the paper. It endeavors to do so. any.
way. When any man feels that the
paper is not worth the subscription price
1t Is his privilege to discontinue il. But
when q man stops . newspaper simply
because OF an expression Of opinion in
1t that IL not in harmony with his W
opinion. that man shows himself to be
either m intolerant bigot who would put
thumb.screws on q hereto II be pos
ssssed the power. or a man silly enough
to cut Of his nose to spite his face.
And 1t would DO safe to say that no man
sver stopped q paper for spite who did
not borrow q copy oil the next issue Of
the paper to learn what, IL anything.
was said in II about him.
Bat attempts to muzzle the press will
not succeed. although there will always
be some men foolish enough to try.
The News believes that the community
generally appreciate a bold. honest and
frank newspaper, and 1t will therefore
continue 10 discuss the live topics Of the
day. whether they may be Sunday laws
or Monday laws. without fear or favor.
And while il would be pleased to increase
its subscription list daily, 1t will not
content itself with the discussion OF
mere airy nothipgs because some mar
row-minded man stops his paper when
its honestly expressed opinions do not
coincide with his.
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