The Russellville Democrat., 1882-02-16

subscribe or not. That is easily under stood. The paper gives you character. While it does not directly single you out, it forms and gives character to the people of the county collectively con- sidered A newspaper bespeaks a civ ilized, moral and intelligent people. That sort of character is worth some- thing, and as an honest man, you ought not to want something for nothing. When you go abroad you carry the character of your county paper with you. You, in fact, are judged abroad, to great extent, by your county pa- per. If you have no county paper at all, strangers say wha. a set of yahoos you are. If your paper is personal they say you are waspish. If your pa per is intelligent and liberal you are at once taken for thoroughbred, well-to- do, nice people. If, however, upon close acquaintance, your department does not sustain the character your pa- per has given you, do not fall out with the paper for the paper cannot make you, by instinct, q gentleman. All it can do for you is to introduce you, ie the introduction is not favorable your paper is responsible, unless, in fact, the order of things at home justify tie impressions made by your paper. Your county paper is an educator. It does not only inform you of what is going on at home and around you, but it keeps you posted on the general topics of the day. It points out to you the chanel so that you cannot mistake the current of the spirit and education of the age in which you live, inter spersed with valuable historical facts and incidents, it enables you to coni- pare the present with the past, and form some ideas of the future.
 Your county paper is a promoter of family reading. The children and mother delight In it. Children are much fonder of reading home news, and concerning things of which they have some knowledge themselves, than they are of desultory abstract reading, and concerning things of which they know nothing. The county paper is the darling of the family. The child- ien watch the mails for it and eagerly drink in it's contents. They all gather around while the mother reads, and when she has finished, each child must read for itself. They understand what they read of about home, hence they acquire the habit of reading un- derstandingly, which is Of itself great acquisition. In short, your county pa- per bears intelligence to every eottage, and shame to the cottage door in which it enters not.
 Especially ought every family take the county paper this year. This is go- ing to be an exciting year in politics. Questions of great moment will be can vassed and discussed. Perhaps this will be the most exciting year ever ex- perienced in Arkansas politics. Giants will meet in joint and fierce debate. The little cattle that have heretofore slipped in and shaped politics because of their diminutiveness and alacrity to slide in at narrow places on some thin guazed policy, will be re- tired. We will have no more of this Sunday school twaddle in politics. The best talent from all parts Of the state will be brought to the front. Men of broad and comprehensive views will conduct tho next campaign, and lessons of instruction may be drawn from what is done and said,
 Another unanswerable reason that every man should subscribe for the county paper, is that the county can vass will be confined to the limits oi the county Of course, and the news droppings cannot be had in any other paper in the state.
 Come, every one of you, and send in your subscription for the DEMOCRAT for the current year.