Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-12-08

which west tennessee mas
received through the Tribune and Sun,
and from no other source has it receiv-
ed it, is the individual enterprise and
the individual expense of the editors.
Not one cent has been received by the
Tribune and Sun from any source for
the collection, preparation, and publ
cation of the notices Of West Tennessee
soil, climate, timber, natural advannta-
ges, etc., etc. The only encourage
lnent we have received in the shape Of
money has been the purchase of few
extra copies on two occasions for send
ing broad. We receive plenty Of
compliments, plenty of empty thanks,
and the more substantial encourage
ment of seeing that it is doing good
for the State. The work which was
undertaken in the public interest was
entered upon after careful reflection as
a settled policy. We only regret that
we are not paid for it. With money
to help us we could make the work Of
advertising West Tennessee much more
thorough and effective. AS it is We
are doing the best We can with the
means at hand. We advise the
STANDARD to do likewise, and trust to
The reward which awaits all good edi.
tors beyond the golden gates. In
eighteen months of this kind of service
we have sold thirty>six dollars worth
of papers at the cost of the paper to us.
While we are willing to do this work
for the good of our State and section,
as far as we are able. we don't want il
understood that we are paid for doing
it. We are willing to be paid for it,
and would be glad if every county in
West Tennessee would furnish u;
enough money to advertise it we'll
While we would not decline help in
pushing this important enterprise, we
don't believe the newspapers of the
State should wait for the public t.
move in the matter. They should b.
pioneers in the work and lead not fol
low pulic sentiment"
1t would seem from the reading O
the above that the editor of the Tri
bune and Sun has gotten the idea tina
Madison county constitutes the who'll
of West Tennessee and the Tribune ant
Sun Office the hub around which tn
entire section revolves. We are undo
the impression that Haywood count,
made very creditable display of it
products at the Louisville Exposition
perhaps other counties in that section
did the same. Isn't Haywood Yves
Tennessee county? Was not this diI
play very liberal advertisement of tn
county? Did it cost neither time no
money? or was it "the individual Ell
terprise and at the individual expens
of the editors of the Tribune and Sun
We learned from some source, W
think through the columns of tn
Tribune and Sun, but perhaps we al
mistaken about this, that descriptiv
circulars, maps, etc., Of some counti'
in West Tenn, were gotten up and ser
North. Was this all delusion @
our part, or was it another stroke {
the Tribune and Suns individual el
terprise ?" But perhaps the Tribur
and Sun, Rip Van Wrinkle like, "don
count that" as advertising. If it be
fact that the Tribune and Sun stanC
solitary and alone in this great work
advertising West Tennessee we regr
very much that the farmers and bus
ness men of that section are not as e.
terprising as we gave them credit #
being. The editor of the Tribune al
Sun must have cotton little confus,
at the banquet and rather lost |
reckoning when he charges "that t
STANDARD continues to stick this poi
at its people from week to week." v
! don't remember to have had but t
one article on the subject. Nothil
was further from our mind than t
thought of conveying the idea that t
Tribune and Sun, or any other pap
was getting any pay for the putting
was giving West Tennessee, and o
article is susceptible Of no such &C
struction. The editor of the Tribu
and Sun goes off mad because
. fancies he sees in our article an intim
ton that he is getting pay for his win
and then bemoans his fate because
does not get pay for it. "Oh, cons
, tency, thou art jewel" truly.
1t is part of the work and purpc
of the STANDARD to advertise the 8