The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-02-05

II any one doubts our assertion, for
proof We refer you tu our advertising
columns, where you find the story told
in full.
Mr.. Mccormack has made rafting
good local paper of the Record, has
written up everybody and everything
in complimentary and lively manner.
and he finally confesses that it dees not
pay. Bell y Gruel!e, Gruelle & Lind
say, A. $. Lindsay, J. c. Ogle & Son
and then Geo. A. Ogle all tried the
Journal and it took five years to kill it.
Then Caldwell 4 Bloom started the
Record, after lapse of over year.
Caldwell left in q few months and Rob.
J. W. Fool Beast Bloom, Of Garner,
Iowa, run the Record till he played
out and left with the contempt of ev.
cry decent human being in the county.
Then Geo. W. Penn took the Record
and tried it as Democratic paper.
Then F. NJ. Mccormack leased it and
changed it back to a Republican paper.
And all confess that it don't pay.
Why is It? Well, there are several
reasons: l. The business men of Wor-
thington never were and never will be
liberal supporters of newspapers. They
say miller and the ADVANCE" will
get on with or without us. We do not
need to shell out any money to have Il
good newspaper" 2. There is not
enough business to support two news
papers on purely business grounds.
One can live, but two cannct without
some party or other aid outside Of reg
ular business. 3. The element opposed
to the ADVANCE is an illiberal element
in everything, politics, religion, socle
ty, and everything else. 1t takes in
nearly all the the moss backs and pull
backs, all the narrow-minded and mar
row headed people, and about all the
"white trash" They are willing to
pay something to keep another paper
going, especially if it will ''blackguard
Miller" but not enough to keep it alive,
and when the pinch comes they shut
their narrow hearts and narrow purses
and leave the publisher to his fate.
AS to the ADVANCE it has lived here
and flourished here, in spite of the ma
lignant hatred of this element. A
prominent journalist from abroad told
us last winter that our career and our
biatnrv roo ovoopt;onol +hot m ot ho p
such case could he found on record.
The idea that man should hang on
against such odds, such devilish hatred,
and sucl. untiring efforts to destroy
him by all manner of slander and an
noyance: that he should speak his
mind openly on all subjects without
fear or favor; that he should weather
the grassllopper cape and pass through
the Scylla Of bigotry on one side and
the Charybdis OF fanaticism on the 9TH
er, and sail serenely into port with every
color flying and a full cargo aboard,
this was what excited the wonder of a
man who has had large experience in
journalism in other States.
We have no patent on the process
and We can tell how the thing is done.
Hard work, close attention to business,
economy, and above all, stick-to-a-tive.
ness and independence will account
for it.
The ADVANCE is on good footing.
We have piled up a very handsome
property, as Gne as any in Worthing'
ton, on the corner of 10th street and
18th Av. and we have the whole Of il
firmly in hand. And if Bro. McCor.
mack, or Bro. Penn, or any Other
printer will stick to it. economize and
treat the Adcance dcccntly, we believe
yet that they might make it after I,
tough first year, and they will always
find in us = brother printer and a
personal friend at least.