The Bozeman weekly chronicle., 1888-07-04
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. l'tNN filI'i lil' ~. dul ttiopt-NlIlill
circulation of 10000 to $4,000 each, or
/ an aggregate circulation of say $4,000
copies for each ,lay, or 241.O00 copies
for each week. Their regular issues
never contain less than eight pages and
frequently run up as high as twenty
/ four pages, or six sheets for each paper
issued. The rapid and healthy growth
of the newspaper business in st. Paul
and throughout the state has been mar
velous and has more than kept pace,
apparently, with the remarkable de
vclopment Of the state in all its mater
ial resources, its manufacturing enter
lriEes and prosperous industries.
Coming to our own favored Territory,
the Montana press has so far had
Short but an interesting and somewhat
eventful history. Only Il quarter of a
century has elapsed since the first press
was set up and the first newspaper
| printed within our present boundaries.
To the credit of the pioneer newspaper
Publishers in Montana, be it said that
they did their work well and set ex-
amples worthy of imitation. They
wisely concluded that nothing that
money could purchase. skilled labor
produce or bright minds evolve was too
good for their enterprising, intelligent
and apprrciative patrons. We remem-
her how in The early days of Montana
journalism the Montana Post, Helena
! Herald. Rocky Mountain Gazette, New
Northwest and the Bozeman Pick and
pIow were justly regarded as models Of
the art, both at home and abroad. To
those rreditable efforts and examples is
doubtless in Il large measure due the
acknowledged general attractive ap-
pc&rance and superior character of
Montana newspapers to-day. Exam
pies ereryway worthy of imitation
were early set and which later candi-
nales for public favor did not disdain
to follow. The result is that Montana
journals, in points of ability, Typography
and quality of material, stand at the
head in the long list of press produc
lltliS Ill an iilt anu ito III
the I-non. These reflections lead TO
the conclusion that most if not all of
Montana newspaper publishers have
been actuated, at least in great part, by
Il higher ambition than that of simply
making money out of the business. 1t
is not unreasonable to suppose that
few papers nay lave been started in
Montana through unworthy motives,
such as personal animosities, the pro-
mitigation of some inpracticable, pet
theory OF simply for Il grub stake" yet
such have been exceptions to the gen-
elitl rule. and. lacking in the essentials
oI correct principles,-laudable ambi-
tion, integrity of purpose and II fixed
determination to serve the best inter
ests of the public-they have been
short-live,l, dying "unhonored and I'M
sing"
But we have probably prolonged this
address beyond any point OF real interest,
and must bring it to a close. A few words
by way of suggestion, however, may not
be deemed inopportune, coming as they do
from one of age if not OF ripe experience.
However humble your lot, or unpre-
tentious your station in the field OF jour-
nalism, never lose sight of the facts that
you are or should be, gentleman-the
peer of all your patrons and a reliable
news-gatherer in the community in which
your lot is cast-that whether your cfrcu-
lation reaches 800, 500 or 1000 you have a
larger, if not more intelligent and ap-
preciative, audience than any preacher or
platform orator within the range Of your
editorial thunder; and that your weekly
) or daily productions will be critically
scanned and deliberately estimated in the
scales of calm, deliberate public opinion.
l If you do well, your efforts will be &C.
:, espted and duly appreciated, but il you
r do wrong then sin inevitably "lieth at the
: door" Be just and fearless, ever con.
y scious of the well.known and oft-repeated
A maxim that,
| Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again,
The eternal years OF God are hers;
And dies amid her worshipers."
In the next place, be yourself, and not
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