Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-05-02
why People should Not sup-
Fort a County Paper.

| oNS "HS Sl~selul puptic, some'
thing works on my philanthropic
disposition, and am compelled to
break that vow. My natural dlspo-
sition to protect susceptible world
against swindling schemes gets the
better of me. I'm afraid my philan.
throplcal spirit will be the ruin of my
varaclty. What is the matter now?
What extraordinary calamity IL a.
bout to bsfali tbs country, that am
forced TO disregard my VOW and go
to writing2 You we'll ask that
Why people are being duped and
swlndled ont of as much as two doll
lars per year by newspapers. l have
known newspapers in this state, in
counties which have no moro than
fifty or sixty thousand inhabitants,
&etua!ly have nearly seven hundred
subscribers; And the ungrateful
|lgnoramus who edits it had the af
frontery to pretend that he was
working hard to build up the coun.
try, and complained that he was not
halt supported. l have sat quietly
and noticed this thing long enough.
My conscience hurts mo for not say.
ing something against it before. /
am satisfied the following arguments
will convince the most skeptical. So
We may speedily hope to see the
newspaper nuisance abolished.
II you have newspaper in your
county. and it pretends to be above
slang and vulgsr witticisms, and
low jokes. :.ers o,S<t subscribe for it,
because sg gsapapers are not popular.
The paper that pretends to keep its
columns free from any but the
purest literature doss not receive
! enough patronage to enable it to
improve any.
Whenever a county paper begins
to advertise the excellences of your
lands, the culture and refinement of
your people, stop your subscription
and withdraw your advertisement.
The reason for this is, you would
soon have food OF immigration
which would want to establish edu-
cationAl facilities, if the paper was
allowed to live and advocate such
principles. Of old Mlssissipplans
abhor any such state Of affairs.
Above all. do not patronizo an
editor who has been laborlng for the
county a number of years. They
always put on alrs-bsgin to talk
about sour county They'll take an
interest in your public administra.
ton; and everything else tending to
the general good OF the citizens.
Don'tyou support sny such paper.
Find tauls with it. Send communi-
cations to some other paper and in.
innate that lively editor is wanted
In yoar town. This will do The bus.
mess, Learn your editor that he
can't pretend to build up yopr COM
munity, and then ask for the patron
age of the public as 3 remup Grafton
OF course you'll want TO sec his
paper, just to see what new idiocy'
he is up to. But you need no
subscribe to do this. Just. drop into
the Office every week and ask to-
the paper just few moments 'to SCI
If you can find an advertise "a snt.
| No matter if some people dc thinl
this mean: 1t Is because you show
more sense q than they do.
Now, some papers so along very
smoothly for . few months, like /
christian enterprise, and never asl
for money. Well as long as thi
lasts, every man, woman, and chill
IN the county should send in thei
names. They should also praise th
editor and tell everybody how mucl
he Is doing tor the advancement Q
, local interests. Send it of to al
, friends abroad and tell them it rep
, resents your county in its true llght
! But as soon as he sends you
dun just coolly inform him tha
| you would be pleased to have you
paper stopped. Don't give him an,
!. reason for this; The proper way
! to call upon all your neighbors an
/ begin to show how senseless it is I
1 support . paper at home, and run
down al you can.