Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1884-08-29
NO. 46.
Country journalism.

discourses as follows:
1t is said that any fool can stand
adversity, because he has got t
stand it when it comes, as there Il
absolutely no other way, but thai
the true test of a man is to stanC
prosperity. A great many mel
are so constituted that they vii
declaim vigorously against th'
robbery there is in taking ten PEI
cent. interest, when they are poo
and obliged to borrow money, whC
would turn square around, if the.
could meet with sudden good for
tune and become capitalists, and i
they could not get twenty-five pc
cent. they would take all they could
get. They would put away thei
former views on the subject, cut al
their old acquaintances and taxi
exactly an opposite position from
their former one. 1t is said tina
Senator Jones was a hard money
single gold standard man, when HI
was first elected to the senate, anC
he made a speech which was chief.
influential in causing Grant to vetc
a sort of silver initiation bill tina
congress had passed. At that tim'
Jones was immensely wealthy, an(
money came tumbling in on him t
an extent that was positively
annoying; but all at once things
changed. Jones' mines petere(
out, he had begun several enter
prises that required money to carry
on, and he became crippled and
hard up. Then it was that Jones
saw where he was mistaken, and
ever since has been a warm friend
of silver, demanding that it be
placed on the same footing as gold
with free and unlimited coinage
The government can't issue toe
much money to suit Jones now
Well, that is simply an illustration
and a preliminary to what We
were gong to say about country
journalism. There is probably nc
country journalist, who depends
solely upon his paper for support,
who does not hope for better thing
some day. We recollect that was
the view we took Of the matter, and
we recollect that we said then, il
we ever got to be one of those
metropolitan chaps, where it was
all salary and diamonds and no
work in place of slab wood, duns
and three mems work to do inside
the Office and out, we would never
90 back on the perfesh, though we
wallered in wealth. Well, we are
not yet wallering in wealth, though
it would be idle to deny that The
Sun is a success, and looking back
at the corduroy road over which we
have come, we desire herewith to
renew our pledges Of devotion to
the country journalist of the state
that we have known in other days,
and assure them that our heart
beats warm for our native land
When we think of the hard drudg-
cry most of these enterprising,
workers do in a week,
and the small amount of thanks
and cash they receive in return, we
feel as though something was
wrong somewhere. Why it is that
in many localities the people do not
the Importance OF a
good newspaper, and sustain it by
a liberal patronage, tn us making it
a better paper, is one Of the most
unaccountable things in the world.
We have no urgent call now to say
what we do, but we tell the people
of every locality where a paper is
published, no matter how small
and insignificant the paper may be,
that every dollar they pay it for
subscription or judicious advertis-
ing puts two dollars in cash in their
own pocket. We have figured on
it, and we know. 1t may not look
so on its face, but it is very deceiv-
ing. Lots of schemes that look as
though they had millions in them,
like the man who is sure he can pick
out the right card in three-card-
monte, fail to return anything like
millions, while other schemes that
do not seem to amount to anything
scarcely pan out whole handfuls of
nickels Unexpectedly. And4the
country newspaper is of this class.
We are not at liberty to give the
whole thing away, by explaining
all the particulars, but country peo-
Die may rest assurea that we I'M
lerstand the matter, and that we
IRE not steering them into any trap
loor game, that will let them down
,ut of sight. Subscribe for your
ocal paper and pay for it in ad-
rance, and if you feel at the end of
he year that you haven t got your
moneys worth, then your fortune
s made. You can go to any mu-
ieum and get a salary of $4,000 a.