Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1888-03-10
convenience of lying in Jail. Let the
law be understood and administered
impartially to all.
NEW ENGLAND LETTER.
Our Newspapers Should be Supported
Some Argument in their Favor.

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Thousands never think once the
inconvenience they put an editor to
when they fail for six months and a
year to pay up their subscriptions.
One says she has plenty of subscri-
bers; what little / owe him doesn't
amount to much" True, it doesn't
amount to great deal but it takes
these small mites to make large sums,
and where you make that remark and
fail to send in your dues probably a
hundred are doing similar thing,
and so the enterprise that is dependent
upon the amount of subscribers for
support is weakened and is very often
compelled to suspend. But you say
"send me the paper regularly"
Well, if you will send your subscrip-
ton he will not only give you paper
regularly but one that is spicy, rich
and interesting. But you say he has
whole columns of advertisements; they
will keep his paper running In
deed advertisements are good when
ever the editor can secure them but
do you not know that business men
will not advertise very extensively
in any paper unless it has a wide
circulation! The number of adver-
ments depends very largely upon this
fact and if you want the editors "ads"
to run his paper then give him wide
circulation and this can best be done
by those who are already subscribers
paying their subscriptions and getting
others to take the paper But you
say 81 would take his paper but 1
never see anything in it about my
town and people" Well the col
umns of the paper are open and to some
extent free for correspondence and
if you would drop the editor postal
card occasionally we are quite sure he
would not consign it to the waste
basket every time. But you say 'the
paper dwells too much on religious
themes" OF course there are strict
ly religious papers and there are others
that admit into their columns news
coming from any respectable source
be it religious, educational, social or
political. But you say'I don't like the
editor of that paper; he and | are not on
friendly terms" You may not like
him personally but that doesn't argue
that he is not a good editor simply
because you do not like him. Where
you have aught against him there are
hundreds who admire him and men
and women too who are capable of
deciding what it takes to constitute
true gentility. 1t is hardly right
for you to cease taking good news
paper and in many instances boycott
the editor, your peculiar dislikes to
the contrary Notwithstanding, AL
though you may dislike him he may
give the public good readable paper
and may furnish you with just the
information desired. You say again
that II would take it but Mr.. A.
doesn't take it, and he is a man of
good judgment" We admit that Mr..
A. is q man of considerable fore
thought and discretion but is Mr.
AS opinion and judgment to be taken
in preference to host of others who
deem it right to support the paper ?
Is Mr.. A to be the criterion for a
whole country! Must the community
wait to receive directions from Mr. A.
before it can act Abosh |! Away
with such nonsensical argument. Go
and pay your subscription and feel
free. G. L. b.