The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-06-02
The HOMO Paper.

over the advantage 10 community
local newspaper affords and how many
ever compare the benefit to be derived
from the weekly budget Of home news
as contrasted with the daily mass OF
misintormation, sensation, indecency,
and crude thought pouring out over the
sixteen to thirty.six pages of the great
city journals?
Is II worth the while Of anyone who
has other work in life to wade through
the dreary columns Of these metropoli-
tan papers for the infinitesimal amount
Of value received?
Take any of them, the bigger it is
the drearier, and what do we find
Glaring, jiggerpe, hysterical headlines
announcing events Insignificant to nine.
ty. nine per cent. of the readers even II
true, and half the time incorrect or ut
terly false, though in nearly every case
casting reproach upon some heart, or
shadowing some household with shame.
Here pages Of wild talk by sma,t Alccks
in regard to political affairs; there pages
Of description OF some horrible atrocity
cabled perhaps from the antipodes, from
which sensitive reader turns with hor.
ror. Now glo.ting over the downfall OF
some man and womanIwho chad alw lvs
stood high in the community and OF
eminently respectable connections"
then the mysterious disappearance" OF
some fast girl who is invariably of good
family" and "hiehly educated, beautiful
and attractive" but in reality has been
leading bad life and has gone to some
OF the resorts to which such yes lead.
Again, in one and the same i,sue, whole
pages may be devoted to the details OF
some great sensational revival meeting
and other whole pages to the Latonia
races, whilst interspersed are reports OF
sin and crime, OF accident or death from
all the world over, the most of which
are of interest solely to the localities in
which they occur and of but little there,
and, too often, the editorials are but re.
flections tending to injure belief in de-
'cency, morality and purity among man.
kind.
Such is the matter brought before us
and ours in the great dailies. They
strive to see which can outvie the others
in size, and in doing go they draw to.
gether as with muck. mass of
garbage, label it "news" and insult their
readers with it.
But let the local paper come to your
home ana the home is safe. 1t does not
pander to the salacious, nor to the bes-
tial. 1t does not wreck homes or torture
hearts by lies or ,insinuations. It ex-
tracts from larger journals such informs.
ton as is OF any value. and it gives its
readers news of those in whom they are
concerned, OF people whom they know.
1t comes like letters from friends telling
of the sickness or health, of the pros.
perity or adversely, OF the Happiness or
sorrow OF those in whom we have q
personal interest. 1t tells OF the comings
and goinys, the changes and the events
occurring in our midst. What do the
people of Highland county care about
some broken leg in Oshkosh, Winsonsin?
or some suicide in Deadwood? They
would rather hear that Billie Overman
had got married. or Frank Leslie got his
new barn done that George Fuller and
Ed. Pierson had gone fishing; or that
Col. Tom Vance had been kicked by
mule. 1t is OF more interest to US that
the blackberry crop is promising we'll in
Brushcreek or that Sam Patton will
soon be again able to run down rooster
for dinner, than to know what the Hon.
Beelzebub Porker, of Oklahoma. thinks
of the Presidential probabilities in a
two column interview; or to know that
the entire detective force OF Red Dog,
Arizona, are engaged in ferretine out the
perpetrators of the murder OF Dennis
OFlannigan in Mike Murphy's saloon.
We would rather read an article on some
home topic than to peruse an editorial
every paragraph OF which wells vice and
sneers at virtue, mocks at honor and in.
sinuates that every person has price,
exults sover the losses of good men, gloats
over the fall Of women and tends to de-
stroy all faith in humanity. Yss. the
home paper is the best teachery:and the
best messenger, and next 10 ,thsta city
weekly. In these the news" Il sifted
and the chaff thrown away. They are.
more reliable in their utterances, moro
honest in their convictions, more
thoughtful in their views. They are to
the dailies what the eober matron IL to
the fast girl, what the .steadfast, wise
father is TO the fashionable dude. and