The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-12-12
To the Readers Of the Citizen

uaSc LII pcOuuidfy lubtTcbt III |
the Pulaski CITIZEN, and what /
have to say will be simply from a
sense of justice that Is implanted !
in every human heart. The CITI-
ZEN is in its Both year and in all
those years it has battled man.
fully for the good of the people of
Giles county. There has never
been an enterprise that looked to
the up building of her prosperity.
For twenty years l have never
missed reading copy. In this
score of years the CITIZEN has been
absolutely loyal to the good of our
people. In all these years each
issue has been chock full of
whatever the editor thought would
be TO the best interest of all our
people. The CITIZEN has been our
standard paper; we have had a
number Of papers start with a
great flourish of trumpets but they
were ephemeral. The CITIZEN has
been intensely local but always
, conservative, allowing free discus
sion In its columns. Our people
have stood by the paper nobly with
their patronage. One year ago the
sole ownership of the paper passed
in the hands of a widow with three
t children. Soon after she took pos.
| session ST 800 printing press gave
| out and had to be replaced with 8
: new one. She has given the work
her whole attention and there has
been edited clean bright paper
that would be credit to veteran
8 The readers of the CITIzEr
know nothing Of what 1t has cos
to keep newspaper running
= There are a thousand and one ex-
u penses to Jay nothing of the brair
It work as well as liberal expendi-
, ture of muscle. The point / wish t.
. make is all these things must b.
paid:for They must come out O
the subscription list. The list rs
s said before is liberal one of tn,
v best citizens of Giles and her thou
q sands of sons and daughter
in other lands from Maine to M ext
CO. Now / come to the lpoint
o Monday while in the office / looket
# over the list. / find on that lis
hundreds of our very best men
, men whose note is good in bank
who are sadly in arrears; some TO
two or three years, others for al
q this year. Then / took look owe
d the foreign list-our people il
4 Texas, California and elsewhere
These are badly behind. Thes
u people, several of whom have writ
s ten me they would not do withou
| the dear old home paper for tel
q dollars year are owing in man,
: instances for several years. Ties,
gentlemen, many of whom are M
i especials friends do not realize tina
they are robbing woman of wha
= is Justly hers. These are men wht
would scorn to do a mean action
men who are the soul of honor ar,
u with holding from sheer careless
. ness money that belongs to wo-
: man, that woman probably il
Q need ef that money to pay for tn,
q material used in furnishing those
n people agood country paper. Now
i the proper thing for every one wht
. has spark of honesty in his make
I up to do is to send in all the ar
rears he owes and year in ad-
vance. This is what we call tn,
gentlemanly thing do. This is wha
every reader of this paper will say
8 is what he would like done wer,
e his sister or mother the proprietor
Many of the gentlemen who are il
Q arrears possibly are hard pressed
financially. To such l would say in
a choosing those whom you would
pay first do not leave woman ou'
Is who has striven as hard Tor hel
Il money as has the editor. The
:, amounts are individually mere pit
tances, but put together the aggre-
j. gate will make sum that will
cheer the proprietor In her effort.
to serve you. The agents should
go to work gallantly this year anG
roll in bigger list nextEyear thar
1 ever. Theirs is but one other paper
published in the state by woman
/, and am told her people respond
nobly to her support. Surely thi:
people are not less gallant than il
u other sections. l have written the
: above without the dictation of any
g one, but simply.that the subscrib.
8 ers may be reminded OF a duty
q they will not be slow to perform.
/ have found it to be only the pro
g gressive intelligent honest class Of
n citizens who take and read theil
q county paper. Such only need {
x gentle reminder of duty. Hop'ns
that the noble manhood in even
o heart will assert itself and do JUS
tics where woman is concerned
Q | subscribe myself the friend o
Q every reader OF the dear old CT III
. ZEN.
l. J. H. BURRow
Il Lynnville. Tenn.
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