The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-09
vOUE COUNTY, PAPER,
uAEY REASONS WHY IT SHOULD BE
PATRONIZED.
Cor. of the Oxford Ledger.


SO far as | know every county
seat in North Carolina has news
paper, dong what 1t can LOT Tue
education of the county's resources,
irving to elevate the citizens anu
help them on to greater prosperity
our home paper has become nx>
ed necessity, and every citizen
ought 10 feel bound to be a suDscr''
Der. County pride, if nothing else,
should induce Ms to stand by our
home paper, and the man who from
sheer Indifference fails to support
his home paper, is wanting IN coun
~ pride. | am ambitious enough
to want my county to be the equai
Of her sisters in point of intelligence
ard enterprises, If not III point OF
wealth; and without good sounos
healthy and enterprIslng home pa>
per. this intelligence and enterprise
must be wanting Again | am am
bilious enough to want my county
panel to De the equal OF any other
county paper, and without liberal
patronage from all our citizens THIS
cannot De. The home paper should
make its weekly visits to every
family il its territory. We can not
afford to assume the responsibility
OF rearing family without provid>
ing all legitimate means tor educa>
tion. A good newsper is q splen~
die educator, and our children VIII
eagerly read 1T when they are SLOW
to read anything else, and IN the
course of twelve months they VIII
have done vast amount OF reading
that otherwise would have been
neglected. | knew man once
with "a large family of children well
educated and the man was poor,
and beng asked how he managed
to educate his children, he replied !:
IL kept them well supplied with
good newspapers and other litera>
tur.. ana sent them to school W hat
| could, and they educated them
selves
The newspapers help to create a
thirst, for knowledge. There are
children today We!i-nigl grown
that 10 not know the Wor.i is much
larger than their fathers farm or
tneir own neighborhood- TGe news.
pape- enlarges the Ideas of our own
know Of no place where we can
invest $3.50 that will yield us such
large returns as IN our home paper
Then it is a great mistake that peO'
Die make in subscribing for a paper
abroad to the neglect OF the home
paper. 1t is simply enriching 9th
ers while we impoverish ourselves
1t is about equal TO saying, we have
little or nc home pride. l have nc
word to utter against subscribing
to papers abroad it We just take
Our home paper. The first two pa
pers for us to read is our home an(
church papers then as many more
as our lnclinatiOns dictate. Blu
one says, | can get larger pape1
with much more reading matter fol
the same price abroad than a
home. That may be true, but yot
CAN not afford to be without you
hone news. Your county pride il
at stake aud you can not afford tt
sacrifice that. Then even if w
would all patronize our home pape
with paid up subscription, on
hard worked editor could enlarge
his paper and give US mnch NOR
reading matter. Another says, N,
neiehbor takes the home paper
aud | read it, Well, that is jus
stlnginess to the core, II we are a
all able to subscribe FOR paper
Some people excuse themselves b.
saying the editor is of different pol
tiles, and therefore we will not TAX
his paper. l insist that is not
valiG excuse, and that we ought t
read The home paper for the SAX
OF our home news. II my count
paper was of different politics iron
mine, would still subscribe to an,
read 1t as a home enterprise an
agree to disagree with the editor a
to politics.
IN conclusion l suggest that "
all feel 1t our duty to aid the edlto
in making a good home paper b
sending him items OF Eews from on
neighborhood, and those competen
or accustomed to writing, contrib
ute now and then to the columns {
the paper. We should feel that
is our paper and that in some meas
ure We are responsible for its sue