Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-02-06

son, and we preface them with a request to keep down their temper until they have fully considered the force and iustness of our remarks. You are deriving your support from the people who reside in this city. They purchase your calico, sugar, stove pipe, pills, and other articles of merchandise, and the money they pay for these things enter into the circulation that makes times easy. or course they psy you prices ranging from twenty 10 i've hundred per cent higher than they would pay Tor the same goods in the east, and they could save quite R handsome sum each year by individually or co-operatIveiy sending to eastern markets for their supplies. In such Bn event, how long would 1t require for every business house to be compelled to close its doors and place upon it @ sign, "To Let, CheapF Every one of you cgu see the force O. this argument, and vet there are pros pering firms in your numbers who prac- tIce n some thIIcs exactly that which you regard Gs almost terminal oflense m others. There are two daily newspapers published in ,his city, both provided with facilities for doing sil classes o! job work. These newspapers bring GUS toners to your doors and strangers to your town, and by letting the world know what there IS in and about your city they raise the drapery of utter oblivion and make 1t possible for you to do business here at all. How many of the present residents of Tucson would be here to-day If there had been no newspaper here? Just stop and ponder :his question few moments. While you are asleep the good words of your . local papers are making such lasting impressions upon some people some where else in this broad country, that viii bring them also to your doors to adj more dollars to your till. In this age people judge a town or city from the character oi it's newspapers. They are tue mIr-ors that reflect an uueTring in- dex of the commercial standing and en- terLrise ol the place, and their iniiucnce reaches far beyond the harvest of to-day, for thelrs IS au enduring record that meets the eye of some one until its fair pI.ut b comes dimmcd with the destroy. ing hand of time. Customers may not rnsh like mob so soon us your advertisement appears in the newspaper, but they read what you say. and If you express 1t just rigns, they will remember 1t and when they want what you have to sell they will ind you. The iOO work oi a newspaper is one of the principal means Of its support. IL helps to pay the many employees necessary to con duct a printing office and through them It again reaches the merchant and gen eral business publIc You may be able, perhaps, to get your job work s ht;le cheaper in the great cities where the printers can live cheaper and are paid less wages. but the money you thus send away IS an ac:ual loss to yourself, and it IS a drain of the finances of the community. We know of several prous- nent merchants who habItually prac- tico this species of robbeTy-fOT 1t Is nothing less-and It would make their cheeks burn with shame stould VIC mention their names, and their custom CTS woull turn away and inquire of themselves, why cannot We do like wise, aGd buy everything where It Is toe ch"apest?' Ita party has a grudge against another, he is almost sure to go to the editor and tell hIm a downright he to make his foe appear ridiculous or at Q disadvantage; fl man of promin- ence gets into a disgraceful episode, he begs the editor not to mention it, not that he cares, but for the sske Cf his wife and family" They expect paper to suppress legitimate items of news; ;o to abuse some one they hate; to lie for them when they have some axe to grind, t4N AD bI ENANAHA N"' t-" Ao oA-N the'r chestnuts out of the fire, but they will beat hIm down on the already low price of advertising and get competitive bids all over the country for a job on which there is a margin Of one dollar profit. Such merchants have no right to expect d good word from the press and 4 exact justice was accorded them they would soon close mp business. They are an injury to the place they are bleed ing to death.