Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1882-12-09
COUNTY VS.. CRY wEEKLiES,

The article below, which we pub
lish verbatim from the Pulaski Cit
izen, is one of the clearest and
most cogent arguments in favor o.
the home weekly as against the for.
eign weekly that we have ever seen
in print. We want every person
in the country to read it, and pom
der, well the reasons why. they
should support their home paper in
preference to helping fill the Golfers
of some wealthy foreign journal.
Every line In it appeals with equal
force to the readers and friends of
the News :-MurJrees6o1o Ne,0S.
81 can get the Nashville weekly
American or Courier-Journal for
one dollar, and why is the Citizen
two dollars ?'' SAID a friend from the
country. .t
A city paper pays its printers to
set the type for the daily and it
pays for its dispatches and other
matter for the daily. 1t prints six
days week and gets about six
times as much for it as country
weekly. Then it takes all this mat
ter that is already paid for and
which it has made profit on and
prints weekly with it, and it costs
it only the paper and the press
work. A country paper has to pay
all these expenses for its iss ,e that
a city weekly avoids. A city paper
has nothing about Giles county
affairs in it and does not advocate
any Giles county enterprises, but
what does the country paper do?
1t furnishes home news.
1t reports home doings.
1t reports what is done in court,
sickness, incidents and accidents at
home.
It announces home meetings.
1t fosters and pushes your pixies,
railroads, looks to your needs and
advocates home enterprises.
1t holds up your county and men
abroad look into it as in a mirror
and see what we are and what we
have to sell and how rich our lands
are and whether we are law-abid-
ing, etc., and they are induced to
come and buy horses, cattle, lands,
etc., and live with US.
1t shows our own people what the
world is doing outside.
1t gives prices and shows what
the supply is and what the demand
is and thus gives its readers "point-
ers" when TO sell what they have or
buy what they need.
1t gives home people an oppOrtu-
nifty to know each other better and
to communicate with each other.
1t is a channel through which
one man can talk to all of his peO-
Pile. .....
1t is a record of home doings that
men may reler to and is often used
by the courts.
1t shows when lands or houses are
to be sold or rented, where bargains
may be had, where and when to
buy cheapest, and when and where
to sell produce best. aH.
1t gives its columns free to all
home enterprises. ..f...
1t labors to build up it9 town and
county and champions their inter-
eStS.
To get all these facts and watch
all these matters and arrange them
and set them in type and print and
mail them, it has to hire men.
Does the city weekly help the coun-
ty and home people thus?
The Citizen makes less money on
4 subscription at 50 than a city
weekly does at 81, because it has to
pay for getting up matter that the |
city paper does not.
Because one horse is worth $50 is !
no reason why another may not be
worth 500. You pay according to
the service you expect of a horse.
Why not pay paper according to
the service it Is to you and your
A business man ought to sustain
a home paper because it is helping
his town and his people and keep
ing up public spirit and home enter
from these he gets his
profit.
A professional man is indebted to
It in like manner, and laboring
man the same, and all class of men |
alike.
Every business enterprise and |
man in Pulaski ought |
% be represented in the Citizen, not |
alone to sustain it, but that all our |
advantages may appear to outsiders,
and the town may be seen to ad-
by outsiders. 1t would
build up our trade, induce others to
D,ox,a horo xv hon fhau coo aui1Qn0po |
Of such a live town and people, new |
each mans individual trade would
be increased. s.
Every reading man in the county |
should take it that he may keep up |
with all these matters and take ad-
of the things he learns in
its columns; and to sustain and |
make it still more useful, he would |
induce his neighbors to take it.
In view of these facts, is not your
home paper worth ta0jce as much to
you as a foreign paper?
We spend all we make at home.
A foreign paper spends not a red
cent here. We pay taxes and live |
and labor here and love this people |
and are trying to help them prosper.
A foreign paper getsyour dollar and
It is gone forever.
We hope we have answered our
friend. Now come, let's all help |
1nce, and run the Citizens list up
10 5000 names by January 1st.
Every man be an agent and per-
,uade your neighbor to take il.
Finally, we would like for our
friends In the country to write us
and tell us whether or not they |
think all the business men in Pulas-
ki and every professional man
should advertise in and sustain the |
Citizen. We would like to have |
postal from each subscriber on this
subject, and a postal from men,
Der of the family. Let each one |
write his or her opinion in few
words, and then say down at the |
bottom of the postal card:
"I am going to get the Citizen a
new subscriber" - 57s9