The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-04-30
OUR DUTY TO OUR HOME
PAPER.

PAPER.
So far as know every county
seat in n. G. has a newspaper,
doing " hat it Can for the educa-
ton Of the people, tie develop
ment of the county'5 resources,
trying to elevate the citizens an d
b clip them on to greater pros
p7lity. Our home paper has be-
come a fixed necessity and every
citizen ought to feel bound to be
a subscriber. County pride, if
nothing else, should induce US
to stand by our home paper and
the man who from sheer indif-
ference fails to support his
home paper.is wanting in county
pride, | am ambitious enou IN
to want my county to be equal
to any of her sisters in point of
intelligence and enterprise, if
not in point of wealth; and with
out a good sound, healthy aud
enterprising home paper, this
intelligence and enterprise must
he wanting. Again [ am ambi-
tious enough to want my county
paper to be the equal OF anyother
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 territory. We cannot
afford to assume the RESPONSE
bility of rearing family with
out providing all legitimate
means for education. A good
newspaper is splendid educa-
ton, and our children will eager
ly rad it when they are slow
to read anything else,and in
course Of one twelve months
they will have done a vast a.
mount of reading that other wise
would have been neglected. !
knew a man once with large
family of childl Ell we'll educa-
ted, and the man was poor, and
beingasked how he managed to
educate his children, he replied
Il kept them we'll suppliid
with good newspapers and other
literature, and sent them to
school what | could, and they
educated them selves. " The
newspapers help to create a
thirst for knowledge. There
are children to day well-nigh
grown that do not know the
world il much larger than their
fathers farm or their own
neigbborhOOd. The newspaper
enlarges the ideas Of our child
! ren as we'll as our own. |
know of no place where we can
invest $l.5O that will
yield US snch large returns as in
our home paper. Then il is a
great mistake that people maj he
in subscri b.ng for a paper
abroad to the neglect of the
home paper. 1t is simply en-
riching others while We impov-
erish ourselves. 1t is about e.
quail to saying, We have little or
no home pride. I have no word
to utter against subscribing to
papers abroad il we just take
our home paper. The first two
papers for us to read are our
home and church papers, then
as maby more as our inclination
dictates. But one says I can get
larger paper with much more
reading matter for the same
price abroad than at home.
That may be true, but you can
not afford to be without your
home news. Your county pride
is at stake and you cannot al
ford to sacrifice that. Then if
we would all patron:ze our home
paper with paid up subscrip-
ton, our har] worked editors
could enlarge their papers and
give US much more reading mat
ter. Another says, my neigbbor
takes the home paper, and I
read it. Well, that is Just
simply stinginess to the core, if
we are at all able to subscribe
Tor a paper. Some people ex-
cuse themselves by saying the
editor is of different politics,
and therefore we will not take
his paper. / insist that that is
Yot p valid excuse, and that we
ought to read the home news.
Ii my county paper was of diff
ferent politics from mine. I
would still subscribe to aad read
it as a home enterprise and "a
gree to disagree with the dit,r
as to politics.
In conclusion l suggest that
we all feel our duty to aid the
editor i'll making a good home
paper by sending him items of
news from our ueighborh Gods
land thoso compotont or oo.,