The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-11
THE HOME PAPER
WHAT 1T IS WORTH.
How Does All This Strike You?
Fogy in Lenoir Topic

cOunty's resources, trying to elevate
the citizens and help them on to
greater prosperity, Our home pa
per has become fixed necessity,
and every cit;z4n ought to feel
bound to he a subscriber. County
pride, if nothing else. should Induce
Us to stand by ouf home paper and
the man who from sheer indifference
fails to support his home paper, is
wanting in county pride. [ am
ambitious enough to want my countv
to be the equal OF any Of her sisters in
point OF intelligence and enterprise,
If not in point Of wealth; and with>
out good sound, healthy and en-
terprislng home paper, this intelli>
gence and enterprise must be want
ing. Again am ambitious enough
to want my county paper to be the
equal of any other county paper, and
without a liberal patronage from all
our citizens, this cannot be. The
home paper should make its weekly
visits to every family within its ter
rtory. We cannot aff)rd to assume
the responsibility of rearing family
without providing all legitimate
means for education. A good news
paper ls splendid educator, and
our children will eagerly read it
when they are slow % read anything
else, and in course Of one twelve
months they will have done a vast
of reading that otherwise would have
been neglected. | knew a man once
with a large family of Children we'll
educated, and the man was poor ,
and being asked how he managed to
educ ate his children, be replied: 81
kept them we'll supplied with good
newspapers and other literature, and
sent them to school what | could,
and they educated themselyes.'
The ne wsp spers help to create q
thirst for knowledge. There are
children to-day well-uigh grown that
do not know the world is much lar
ger than their fathers farm or their
own neighborhooi. The newspaper
enlarges the ideas of our children as
we'll as our owa- | know of no place
where we can invest one dollar that
will yield us such large. returns as
ia our home paper. Then it is a
great mistake that people make 10
subscribing for Il paper abroad to
the neglect Of the home paper. 1t is
simply enrichlng others while We
impOverlsh ourseivs. 1t is about
equal to saying, we have little or nc
home pride. | have no word to a.:
ter against subscribing to paper;
abroad if we just take our home
paper. The first two papers for US
30 read is our home and church
papers then as many more as oul
inclin alton dictates But on. saye
| can get a larger paper with muci
more reading matter for the same
price abroad than at home. Tha
may be true, but you cannot afford
to he without your home news
Your county pride is at stake anC
you cannot afford to sacrifice that
Then even if we would all patroniz
our home paper with paid up sub
scription. our hard worked editor
conld enlarge their papers aud Civ
US much more reading matter
Another says. my neightor take
the home paper, and I read it. Vel
8 that Is Jlst stirginess to the core,
q we are at all able to subscribe for
I paper. Some people excuse them
e selves by saying the editor is G
d ferent bolitics and therefore W
. viii not take his paper. | insii
2 that that ls not valid excuse, an
e that we ought to read the home p'
h per for the sake Of our home new
e If my countv paper was of dtfferer
4 politics from mine, | would still sui
4 .crlb to and read it as home el
II terprise and agree to disagree wilt
D the editor as to politics.
n II conclusion | suggest that v
ali feel 1t our dutr 10 aid the edit
In making oOoj home paper I
l. sending him item of news from O
50 neighborhood~, and those compete
= or accustomed 10 writing, cOntrlbu
"a now and then TO the coluiuos of t.
ID paper. We should feel hat it
e, oar paper and ihaL in some mea
;, ure we are responsible for Its 81
IA cess.