Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-09
Sunday. February 8, 1880.
TALK.

The Livingston Daily Enterprise.
after an experimental test Of about
four months IN what is claimed to be
the liveliest and most promising town
in eastern Montana, has come TO II
quit. A lack If patronage is the rea-
son assigned, and PROFESSIONALLY the
true one. The incident furnishes a
text from which we are inclined 10
preach a ermoD Bozemsn, Liviug--
ton and Billings have each tried again
and again to make n daily paper stick
and tailed. Miles City has had tie
DAILY YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL with
out interruption since October, 1852.
There is no question but that a daily
paper adds to the reputation of any
town that will support it, not only by
what its columns contain but by it,
simple existence. A community that
is progressive emo iyh to support a
daily paper is one that In the expires.
sive psrlance Of the day, ''has no fiies
on il and n contra the announce
ment that the daily paper has sus-
pended is invariably accepted as a sigl
of existing depression in a community.
The YELLOWSTONE JOURNAL hss
never permitted itself to indulge ID
the repr.hensible habit, too common
among country papers generally, of
bewailing publicly a lack Of support
from those who should be il, patrons.
Such q course is not only indecent but
unwise-indecent because it parsdes
an enterprise whose chief glory il in
dependence Of expression, In the role
of a mendican'; unwise becau .e 1t
publishes its financial Weakness and
thus Injuries its credit. Private and
personal solicitation for business and
support is legitimate. but We do not
belle We that any paper ever gained
one patron by a published announce.
ment that 1t was not receiving the
support il was entitled to and by i'm
plication II not openly charging those
who should be but were not among It's
patrons with psrsImony and lack of
public spirit. A business. house that
fails of the proper supper; for its con-
tinuance simply closes its doors aud
quits, but If before doing SO it took
advantage of printers ink and public-
Iy called Its neighbors to account for
Withholding patronage it would -imp-
ly be laughed at and It. demise DO
doubt accelerated. A newspaper in its
most important relation to It's proprie-
tor is simply a business enterprise, and
because it has daily or weekly access
TO the public it should not place itself
ia the ridiculous attitude Of bulldozing
the supper. that Is not accorded II on
bushes. principles. While the JOUR.
NAL would thoroughly appreciate a
more extended local support 1t has no
complaint to make and In this con-
nscion simply presents TO the people
OF Miles City the inconte.sable fact
that 1t has preserved aud maintained
for this city the proud reputation of
being the only town in Montana east
of the mountains that has thu sand to
run a daiIy raser, aud ak: them 10
make a note Of It.
In using the Incident of the disson-
tinuance Of the Livingston ,aper as a
text for this discourse, we do no,
mean to insinuate that the Enterprise
INDUCED in any "beefing" referred to.
IL siuIpIy announced q cessation ol
publication on acc, uDt Of lack Of pa.
tropage, which was in accord With
true business principles. When our
support drops below zero we shell do
the same.