The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-02-23
YOUR COUNTY PAPER.
Many Reasons Why it Should be
PatrOnized.

MANY Reasons why 1C 0QOulO De
Patronized.
A correspondent of the Oxford Public
Ledger contributes the following:
So far as | know every county seat
in North Carolina has a newspaper, do
ing what it can for the education of the
county's resources, trying to elevate the
citizens and help them on to greater
prosperity. Our home paper has be-
come a fixed necessity, and every citizen
ought to feel bound to be a subs criber.
County pride, if nothing else, should in
duce us to stand by our 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 county to be the equal oil
her sisters in point of intelligence and
enterprises, if not in point of wealth: and
without good sound, healthy and en-.
terprising home paper, this intelligence
and enterprise must be wanting. Again
| am ambitious enough to want my
county paper to be the equal of ny other
county paper, and without liberal pat
ronage from all our citizens this cannot
be. The home paper should m axe it's
weekly visits to every family in its terri
tory. We can not afford to assume the
responsibility of rearing a family with
out providing all legitimate mea rs for
education. \ good newspaper is a sp lendid
educator, and our children will eagerly
read it when they are slow to read any
thing else, and in the course of twelve
months they will have done a vast
amount of reading that otherwise ould
have been neglected. knew a man once
with a large family of chindren well edu-
Gated and the man was poor, and being
asked how he managed to educate his
children he replied: II kept them we'll
supplied with good newspapers and Of :her
literature, and sent them to school W hat
| could, and they educated Intensely rs. -
The newspapers help to create a tn lrst
for knowledge. There are children to-
day well-nigh grown that do not know
the world is much larger thon their
fathers farm or their own neighborhood-
The newspaper enlarges the ideas of our
own. know of no place where we can
invest SIS that will yield us such large
returns as in our home paper. Then it
is great mistake that people make in
subscribing for a paper abroad to the
neglect of the home pnper. 1t is simply
enriching others while we impoverish our
selves. 1t is about equal to saying, we
have little or no home pride. have no
word to utter against subscribing to
papers abroad if we just take our home
paper. The first two papers for us to.
read is our home and church papers then
as many more as our inclinatiOns dictate.
But one says, 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
h., ~
pride is at stake and you can not afford
all patronize our home paper with apaid
could enlarge his paper and give US
says. my neighbor takes the home paper,
and read it. Well, that is just stingi-
ness to the core, if we are at all able to
subscribe for paper. Some people ex-
cuse themselves by saying the editor is
OF different politics, and therefore we will
not take his paper insist that is not
valid excuse, and that We ought to
read the home paper for the sake of our
home news. If my county paper was Of
different politics from mine, Iwculd still
subscribe to and read it as home en-
terprise and agree to disagree with the
editor as to politics.
In conclusion l suggest that We all
feel it our duty to aid the editor in max
ing good home paper by sending him
items of news from our neighborhood,
and those competent or accustomed to
/ writing, contribute now and then to the
columns Of the paper. We should feel
that it is our paper and that in some
measure we areresponsiblefor its success.