The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-01-09
HoME SUPPORT OF NEWSPAPERS
A Suggestive Incident at Asheville Teaches
Lesson Applicable Elsewhere.

Editor Williams of the Greenville
News makes the following pertinent
points in a recent editorial:
After suspension Of week the Ashe-
Vile Citizen has resumed publication
in its old form and the same staff, and
is as bright and able as ever. The Cltl-
zen states that when it failed to appear
the people of the city promptly felt the
loss of their daily newspaper and as
promptly took action to secure Its
resumption on sound and satisfactory
basis.
We do not know but that it would be
a good plan for many Of the daily news
papers of the smaller cities to suspend
publication occasionally by way OF
giving an object lesson to their COM
munities of their value and Importance.
Like good men, they are never properly
appreciated until they are gone.
1t is very likely that if the GreenviIIe
Daily News should suspend tomorrow
and announce itself starved out" IT
would within q few hours receive
generous offers Of help to any extent
needed from some Of the very people
who now never give it dollar they can
avoid giving. It was established in It's
present form by men who had little
thought of direct profit but believed II
would be of value to the city in many
RESPECTS. Everybody shares in and ac-
cepts the good it does, but many appear
to think that its support is no business
Of theirs and act as if they had no IN
terest in it.
This newspaper is doing fairly we'll
II has not had to ask anybody for help
and doesn't expect to. 1t grows and
gains all the time, and wherever 1t can
reach and secure a foothold 1t sticks
Nevertheless its prosperity and growth
depend on the support it receives al
home It is one of the strongest ele-
ments in the city's life, one OF the most
;n,nortant factors in her growth ano'
merely as matter of business and ASIDE
from any considerations OF sentiment
has the right to ask for every ooiiaf
that can be thrown i'll its way IN any
Gifts departments.
Greenville is in many respects Sooo
newspaper town. We do not kno"
.nother community in the Inlteo
States the size of this one with so large
and expensive daily newspaper as the
Haws While this is due partly to adj
vantages of location-giving US a clrco-
,o+ion of which two-thirds is outside OF
Craenville-it would be impossible tor
snch g newspaper to be printed here II
+hara WAS not a hearty and generous
support at home. Those who neglect
or refuse to patronize the enterprise are
perhaps, the exceptions, but there IS no
reason for any such exceptions. A gooo
renresentative newspaper is now uni
versallv recognized as one of the nrs1
and most important needs Of every am
bilious town, and such newspaper
when once established ought to receive
the unanimous and warm support OF us
community. The better the support
the better the newspaper is and the
stronger it is made for good. No douo,
there are men in Greenville who would
WILLINGLY give q hundred dollars, or
more, a year rather than have the city
without daily newspaper and VINO
will take job work or advertising else
whore on a difference Of twenty-five
cents and borrow paper to read every
day.