Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-10-01
TO WHOLESALE MEN.
A Few Plain Words Addressed To The Wholesale Merchants of
 Pine Bluff.

To the wholesale trade of Pine Bluff the GRAPHIC desires to address Q few remarks for their considera- tion on the part of the press of the city.
 We desire to start out by saying that the wholesale dealers of Pine Bluff are not as considerate and generous toward the local press of the city as they ought to be, and as they usually are elsewhere. It is a well known fact that there is not a city in.the land making pretentions to be a wholesale center where there are not daily newspapers. The wholesale house and the daily newspaper go together. No out side retail merchant would think anything of town pretending to be wholesale business where there were no daily newspapers. A town of insufficient importance and public enterprise to support a daily news paper or newspapers, would be con- sidered by the outside world abso- lutely of no importance. A town without a daily newspaper Is 8 dead town. 1t is no more adapted to this age of progress than the stage coach to the railroad. Railroads and daily newspapers go together, and there can be no wholesale trade center without both.
 The premises considered, we desire to remark that Pine Bluff is not lacking for daily newspapers or wholesale houses. The daily news papers are not as large SIS the St. Louis Republic or Globe-Demoerat neither are our wholesale houses as large as some in St. Louis. The daily newspapers of Pine Bluff are as large as their surroundings and patronage will warrant; so are Pine Bluff wholesale houses. But, strange as it may seem, there is not an exclusively wholesale house in Pine Bluff that has an advertisement in a Pine Bluff daily newspaper. This is rather an anomalous and ex- traordinary condition. It exists nowhere else in Arkansas or out of it. The Little Rock and Fort Smith daily newspapers carry an advertisement for nearly every wholesale merchant and cotton factor in their city; SO do the St. Louis, Memphis and New Orleans daily newspapers. Now. when any one of the wholesale houses in Pine Bluff make any new improvement or addition, or make a big purchas of goods or cotton, the local daily press gratuitously heralds the fact to the world. Some times when they do, they sell an ex- tra copy or so of the paper, but us often they don't. The treatment of the daily press of Pine Bluff by our local wholesale merchants is exceedingly illiberal and parsimoni- ous. 1t is that of unparalleled and inexcusible neglect. Not one of them would wish for a minute to see Pine Bluff without daily newspapers, yet their appreciation is sexceedinglyblunt and unsubstantial. In addition to the fact that they do not advertise, some of our wholesale merchants send abroad for lithographing when printing would do just as we'll; or if they have small job of print ing, turn it over to an independent job office for the sake of saving st quarter. The good deeds of the local press, and it's benefit to the town and community, and especially to the wholesale merchant, are soon This is rank injustice The daily local press deserve better of the community, and especially the wholesale houses. The Pine Bluff newspapers are earnestly striving for the upbuilding of the town and community, and the advancement of the local trade of every kind and charac ter, and their efforts are worthy of consideration and re- ward.
 The DAILY GRAPHIC is making ar engagements for a splendid tele- graphic service which will give its readers all the news eighteen hours ahead of any other daily newspaper. We will begin receiving that service sometime during the present month. This telegraphic service involves additional expense. If it is appreciated and the paper sufficiently patronized to warrant the expense, it will be. continued; otherwise not. A newspaper cannot rise higher in public enterprise than is sustained by it's environments