Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-01-26
A nALY PAPER

 le-.ake the publication of a daily paper v ere a daily Faper Is not needed and wl-'e 1t will not pay its way. The citI- 2 u7 of Fl Pasc, who seem to be wide va.,e and energetic.clamored for a daily paper, unGl they found some one who was wiling 10 uudertlke to furnish one after having received substantial and from men Of means with a further un- de1tanoing that more cash would be forthcoming from the same source, pro- Ei-id 1t was needed. lis needless to say -hat more cash vas needed to put it on paying basis. The enthusiastic haczers of the man who undert ok the job ot running a daily paper ID Fl Paso, pu' up money and kept putting it up altl the amount began to run up into ta thousands, with no better prospect 1l a return than when She daily was l-5. established. or course the business manager had to bear all the blame, and with a more competent management the paper womb surely pay. More men were "r0pej in who went down in La-r pockets and put up a new supply. ba. the thing would not work; bills ac- cLnulated faster than the money came il. md the paper went under not long since, and there does not seem to be much hope of is resurrection. The Lone Star, a sprightly and newsy paper, o1 1'iizshed r tha. town Bvery Wednes- lsg and Saturday, discusses the ques- tla of publishing a daily paper with su-a good iudym and sound sense, .-ai We feel justified in quoting the fol- owing extracts from it's columns:
 There are a number of business men l- .hls coEnunIty who are clamoring ..- daily paper. We meet them daily, sl- their scereotJ ped inquiry IS, "why don t you start a duly?' The writer has 1ean at some pains in his personal con- v,rsauols with these men to explain TLy dElly paper would not pay in Fl iaao. Some of the c,amUrers have been
 vmced, but many have not; and to
 a latter class We direct the present r.cle.
 -n the eas-, daily papers are scarce in ns ot l4ss than ten thousand inhsb-
 its and are not met with ct all in
 rns of the size of Fl Paso. N ot that
 1ple there care less for reading the llly news; but because the railroads uerglug from tLe great cities carry the rat morning daIlIes tO all the smaller owns within a very few hours after .-ay are published, and the resident Oi
 own O1t yIug great city anywhere 7.hn hundred miles can read his - raIng paper at the breakfast table
 as conveniently as though 1t were
 IolIshau ID hIs own town. instead of -.y or hundrad miles away. After 6 ,.lle the people thus accustomed move 'l5 west and build up new towns and
 1-ung printers are called upon to
 nlsh them papers. These begin with
 mall weekly and If the town prospers
 reass It 70 seven or eight columns,
 king, possibly, little money by the
 lture, provided the enlargement be sgt attempted before the time IS ripe. Bu. in time these
 1ple miss the daily telegraphic
 ws. They are too impatient to await ls slOw delivery Ot the mails. bringing usm the news one, two or three days Id. So 1t happens that the men who atrOnlZe tue country weekly begin To l-ge the editor to give them a daily. .-ey know nothing In the world about Ls cost Of running a daily; they only ,aow IL wlll pay. They are themselves IliIng to increase their patronage -lbabiy to double It-Rnd the wish be- 0ming father to the thought, they actu- -yt believe the enterprise in which they sl Euch a lively interest themselves .innOt but proEe remunerative to the lblsher. Unlucky the publisher who
 ows the enthusiasm and the argu- Isnts of his well meaning patrons tO .Iud his own Judgmenti The patrons I've promised collectively to "see him trough. But there is a lack of indi-
 iual responsibility which renders it most difficult to raise the necessary .unds to pay of the printers on Satur- Jay nights. The very people who are most tnXiOus tO see the enterprise sue '-ed, and are really quite liberal in the
 ppOrt they give 1t, cannot understand loW in thunder 1t can cost so much
 
 The people are metropolitan to an ex- mt uuusuai even in western towns. Iley are intelligent, too. and 1t is not range they should clamor for a daily paper, seeing that they know nothing in le word about its cost. But they had
 st as well settle themselves down with ] ie conviction that. until this city gets arEer and times better, no daIly paper m live here except through the direct a1ntribuhous of the people.
 There are many people outside ot El Easo, who have no idea of the cost of -1nnlng a daily paper, yet they will c.aulo- for more news. There are some -len even in Tucson who find fault with Ie meagre teIegraphic reports of the I6c2l press, and their local pages. Some 1f these men who talk the most sup u1rs the local press-God bless them % the extent of a dollar month, with Ilt contributing anything, for a mere description amounts next to nothing n this country; they want you to lay own an eight ps ge paper on their door .,ep every night! Now if all our citi- -a1s were as niggsFdly as the ones we fer Co, THERE WOULD BE NO DAILY e.PERs IN TUCSON; DO, not even a weekly. such men should hide their heads in name. or never again speak disparag- ugly of our local press.
 These people should know that it ,jsts something tn get out even so poor a paper as the CITIZEN. Aside from the sst of rent, gas, material, t.legraphlc .sws. and incidental expenses, the IrrrzEs has on its regular weekly pay -lHs twelve able bodied men and four llys-sixteen in all-and much of the me two or three additional men em- loved on ext-a work, making about 7enty men employed IA the CITIZEN Iice.a larger number than anyother ID Tucson employs, with 1 me single exception. The daily papers of rrcson are not great papers, but they 1 re pretty good papers for such a town. hey might be much better, if such men | 8 we have referred to would open thelr carts a little, instead of thelr mouths o much.