Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-03-20
WHY DO WE NOT
BOOM THE CITY OF HOP
KiNSVILLE?
WE WILL TELL YOU.

The question was asked us few
weeks since by one of lIopkinsville's
most prominent business men, "Why
we did not keep lIopkinsville adver-
tised before the public like the wes-
tern papers," which come to us well
filled with descriptions Of the adyan-
tages offered by the cities in which
they are published. We told him
) we had the "boomer" if the citizens
ofIIopkinsville would only furnish
the ammunition with which TO
"boom," and mentioned the fact to
him that the cities in which those
papers were published were paid so
much year to keep them well
before the public and every business
man in those cities not only adver-
tised in such papers but worked for
their sustenance. When the public
spirit of IIopkinsvllle is compared
with that found in these cities,
fast growing every day, wide diff
ference is found. Our people have
the wrong idea of building up city
for they seem to think that no mat
ter how much they send from home
for what can be bought here, it sim
ply amounts to nothing, and that
Hopkinsville will get along some
how. When such examples are set
by our banking institutions, ware
houses and business men, it may be
expected that every branch of bust
ness will follow suit.
We are not discussing anyone's
privileges TO do just as they see fit
and proper, but are only pointing ont
such feelings aad actions on the part
of our business men that serve to re-
tard the city's interests rather than
help to build it up.
Take our banks for instance, that
many years back used to feel kindly
toward the newspapers, and kept
their printing at home, but such is
not the case now, for St. Louis, Gin
clnnau, fhiinosiPII-, aud other nlaces
do the printing that should be done !
by home Offices. And why do we
say this 1t is because the newspapers
are constantly inviting people to our
city and working for the CONNER
cial interests thereof, which as a nat
ural consequence swell the deposits
in said banks, necessarily benefiting
them. Then again we pick up pa
pers from Greensboro, Clarksville
aud other cities that are imbued with
the proper spirit and we find bank
advertisements, but you will not find
any in your Hopkinsville papers
only those the law requires. We we're
in hopes the new bank, soon to open,
would set good example, but like
tho others has strayed from home
for its printing supplies. Our banks
should expect their depositors
from ST. Louis, Cincinnati, and
Philadelphia, and other cities where
they send their work rather than
expect them from Hopkinsville and
Christian county. We have heard
our bank officials wonder why Chris
tan county people placed their mon
ey in Clarksville banks, when they
were offered good banking institu-
lions in this city, and yet they set
the bad example of straying from
home themselves. This is the wrong
kind of a public spirit, and the ex-
cuse that the amount spent from home
doesn't foot up much will not do, for
every dollar sent from home that
could be kept in circulation here, will
help that much to swell the CONNER
cial interests of our city, and amount
to good deal in the course of
year.
Take our warehouses, that have
received all the support through the
columns of the papers from time to
time, they could bring to bear for
the up-building of the Hopkinsville
Tobacco Market. They too have set
a bad example by patronizing out
side papers who never have nor new
will speak word for our market,
and the few triiling dollars saved on
a little job work can never make up !
the difference in favor of the influ-
ence of the home papers, in laboring
for the up-building of thelIopkinsville
market. 1t is a sad fact that the
Clarksville Warehousemen pay more
for an advertisement in the Hopkins
vile papers than our home houses,
which shows they appreciate the pa
pers circulation and influence. When
ever this practice is given serious
consideration, we believe it will be
stopped. Where any one makes his {
money there is where he should spend =,
it with other branches of business,
and it will in the course of time fall
into first hands again only to repeat
the same mission, but as long as the
practice of sending from home is
kept up, just so long will Hopkins
vile move along some how or other.
Give the matter some thought for it
is worthy of careful consideration.
A Gard.