The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1885-06-17

We head our columns this morning
with an item of news which we hope aud
believe will be good news to our people
at home and abroad.
The long recognised defect in Raleigh
enterprise has been its lack OF unity or
Joint action. The best team in the world
would make slow progress IT only one or
two horses pulled together. Durham
would not have grown from an old shanty
into a city, within twenty years, II the
merchants, the cotton men, the tobacco
men, the professional men, etc, had
stood aloof from each other, or failed to
make a joint effort to Boom" the place.
In no feature of business is the lack OF
concentration more manifest than with
the press. Raleigh with about 5000
(whitel population has more newspapers
than Richmond with 50, 900, double the
number of Charleston with $4,000; hve
times the number of Montgomery, Ala,
with 80. 900; three times the number OF
Wilmington with II, 600 or more. What
are the consequences? You readily rec
ogaize them. The business is over-done
and u~nder-done; instead of half a dozen
strong, and hourishing, well-printed,
well-edited papers, extending their news
and views to every quarter OF the land,
we have what we have. e. much better
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from what they ought to be: and could
be; but for the unnatural competition.
Our business men are liberal: but they
hesitate to advertise in one paper lest
twenty Others take %otfense at not getting
a bite of the cherry
For these reasons We feel assured that
our people will take pleasure in the an
nouncemeAt that two of the most widely
read papers Of the State are about to
unite under one management. The Stat
Chronicle, which Mr.. Walter II. Page
made SO popular from Murphy to Manteo,
and which Mr.. F. B. Arendell has beer
conducting for some months past to the
qualification of his readers, will on Tues
day be joined with the Farmer and Ne
chGnac, which for so many years has gone
in and out among you, The new arrange
ment will give the new paper al excel
lent press, new type and fixtures, a
beautiful engine; and other advantages;
chief among which we count the favor
aud support of a score or more of proml'
nent progressive and successful younG
business men In Raleigh, Durham, Hen
dcrson, Winston, Fayetteville, Whining
ton, Asheville, and other points, present
stockholders of the Chronicle, who viii
continue to hold a fractional stock 10 tie
new paper; the chief control and owner
ship remaining with the editor of the
Farmer and Mechanic.
From the foregoing it will be seen that
the public cannot suffer by the change.
None of the better features of the Far
mer and Mechanic will be lost: many of
its defects will be remedied and supple
mented by the best features of the ChrOn.
tcle: while a DOUBLED CIRCULATION
will accrue to the patrons Of the paper.
Every friend of either paper is heartily
urged to give his active support to an
enterprise which has done something
for the State; learned how to do more
and better: and hopes to do a thousand
times more in future. In England the
test of Loyalty is-''Saue the Queen ~
In North Carolina the word should be
Help to push forward our State p"
Owing to illness of Mr.. Arendell,
and the business changes in progress,
no edition of the State Chronicle will ap-
peal this week. 1t may be that no edi-
ton OF the Farmer and Mechanic will be
printed next week June 24th): but if
anything of special Importance should
occur. our extra Will be issued.
RANDOLPH A. SHOTwELL.