Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-28
KICKERS AND CRITICS.
Their Peculiar Relations with their Home
Papsrs-How q Paper May be Made
More Helpful and Creditabe.
Waco Day.

\ merchant OF Fort Worth recent
complained that THE GAZETTE devoted
too much space ana gray matter TO
booming outside counties. To this COM
plaiut and criticism THE GAZETTE made
the following reply:
-. THE GAZETTE has done soma very good work
for Fort Worth, but this paper not do il all.
II The GAZETTE boOmS ''other counties ut in
tervas in its work for Fort Worth it is because
'other countless contribute hye-sevenths Of
the total circulation of The GAZETTE. This
paper has been doing its share for eight years in
behalf OF Fort Worth and Tarrant county. and il
the city had put into the Golfers of THE GAZETTE
all the money it has thrown away insufficient
advertising mediums mucn more would have
been accomplished than has been done. THB
GAZETTE spends more money in Fort Worth than
the city spends on the paper, yet the paper never
wearies OF we'll doing. Merchants should
call on the people to do so rieIhing for them
selves. Fodder or no fodder The GAZETTE
has stood TO the rack, and if it strsys out iuto
''other countless it is because the grazing at
home becomes at times alarmingly dry. -
Commenting on the above remarks OF
THE GAZETTE the Galveston News adds:
1.-THE GAZETTE had to go into other counties
remain stpendiary upon its local commun-
ity This may nave been nuts for the local
community but it was tough The GAZETTE.
The truth is that the daily papers of Texas are
far ahead of the local communities in which
they published. There Is not local COM
munity in Texas that is credited by the last CEN
sus report with a population OF over $1,000
East or West with three times 40 GOO population,
that pports . daily newspaper the equal in
any way of such daily papers published
in Galveston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston or
San Antonio? Not in the whole range, North,
East, South or West, population to population,
can such excellent daily papers be found
published in Texas. They have sense enough
left them, however, to HE themselves into other
counties or they would go to the wall. Yet
there kickers around who imagine that 4 pa
per belongs to town, and that II such paper
speaks well of any other place it is false to its
town.
Everything said by THE GAZETTE and
News in the above extracts is true aud
to the point. OF the several morning
papers in Texas there Ia not one that
could meet its current expenses or any
considerable portion of its expense bud
get out OF the business it gets from lis
home town. II this applies with so
much force to the larger cities-Dallas,
Galveston and San Antonio-each with a
population of nearly or over 40, 900, it
applies with special force TO the smaller
cities, where the population does not
even 20 up to 20 900. And yet in those
smaller cities the dailies exhibit push
and public spirit that would be consid-
cred exceedingly enterprising in a city
of 40, 900 or 80, 900 souls, outside of
Texas. All that the daily press of these
large and smaller cities has ever
asked is the moral and practical support
of the communities in which the papers
are published. 1t is not expected that
every business shall tax itself to q bur-
densome degree to help the home paper
to work for the community. It is not
even that every business
man, firm or corporation shall feel 1t g.
duty to advertise. But certainly the
home paper has a right to expect that If
is done it shall be as liberal
as possible and that 1t shall not go to
outside schemes or "fakes.' Also the
home paper has a right to expect that If
ts home people see fit TO hold business
rom it and get the benefit Gas they do)
IF its work for the town free en- 1 without
price, the least they can do and act de-
cent by is to refrain from criticising and
neering at it because, il a 10, 600 popu-
alton town, it does not rival a metro
oolitan paper-a Chicago, st. Louis or
SeN York journal. The Day has been
printed in Waco seven years Qackiug one
month";, commencing when Waco had
ess than 5000 Inhabitants. In its con-
uct, enterprise aud standing as a daily
'aper IL has pushed far ahead of the
own or the revenue it gets from the
own and every body here knows it. The
Jay, to-day and every day, gives Waco
$ much prestige and reputation abroad
( a helpful and creditable nature as any
Institution In the town, without any ex-
option. 1t pays out as much money
very month to wage-earners who live
ere and spend every cent OF their earn
lgs in Waco as 1t derives from its Waco
usiness. Yet in the face of these facts
be worst kIckers, grumblers and critics
ne Day has to contend with are people
hose practical interest in the paper, as
by the amount of business
hey do with US, is so small that il doesn't
mount TO anything. The best way to
lake paper truly helpful to town is
, help the paper-not by bonuses. but
= giving it business and heling il to help
self. All the dailies have TO look
broad to some extent for business. II
ieJ did not they would soon suspend
ALLEGATION.