The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1883-01-25
NeWsDaDer Education.

Sensible men have long ago dis
covered the value of a good newspa-
per educator in the family.
How newspaper pays its sub
scribers can be at once seen, says Mr..
j. w. Crazy, of Florida, writing to
the Pensacola Advance Gazette, if
you will give the matter little
thought. Suppose you take a paper
that is issued only once a week; you
get fifty-twO copies year, each con-
tanning the general current news of
the times.
The educational advantages to the
family, derived from only weekly
paper, are cheaper and more impress
Sive, useful and thorough, after the
children have learned to read, than
the teaching in the ordinary schools.
1t is notable fact, and many emf
nent examples might be referred to,
that families who are never without
newspapers become more intelligent
and more influential than those who
go through the ordinary scholastic
studies without the habit of reading
newspapers. After reading, writing
and arithmetic are taught to child,
if a choice is to be made between
school books and newspapers, it
would be much more beneficial to
the child to give it two or three
Well-selected newspapers to read than
to confine it to the textbooks of the
school. Newspaper education is poly
technic and universal, and is indiS-
pensable to proper qualification for
true American citizenship.
A good newspaper saves money in
all business matters. If you want to
sell or buy anything yOn will likely
see the current price in the newspaper,
and you will also see what you might
want advertised; you don't have to
take hearsay, and thus suffer from
mistakes and delays; you must
turn to your paper and know
all you wish to find out. You
will often save the subscription
cost of your paper by one single order
for ten or twenty dollars worth of
goods. You will often find chances
for good bargains advertised that can
not be found in any other way. A
few months since merchant in
Pensacola advertised to sell a certain
staple article of provisions very cheap;
there was quite large lot of it, and
the consignor ordered it sold at once.
l sent an order, and when several of
my neighbors in the country saw
what 1 had gotten, and I told them
the price, they said: IF you had told
us, we would also have sent orders"
L said: IF you will take the papers
you will always know in time,
without waiting for secondhand
talk" 1 saved the price of my news
paper subscription in Pensacola for
one year by that single transaction.
Indeed, it would be impossible to
enumerate the amount of pecuniary
benefits received from newspaper adj
vertisements alone, to say nothing of
the general information of vital i'm
portance contained in them.
Journalism in all its depart
ments is business that re-
quires more self-sacrifice, more in
defatigable labor, more patience,
endurance and nice discrimination
than any other profession. There is
no class of men that furnish so cheap
ly the indispensable intelligence, wis
dom and virtue, for the support of the
government and welfare of the peo-
pie, as the well-trained and efficient
journalist. Every good citizen should
take and pay for good paper; he
owes it to his country, his family and
his own self-respect and interest.