Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-25
COUNT RY US. CITY PAPERS.

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The following from the Manchester,
N. H., Mirror regarding country and
city newspaper publishing is worthy
of careful perusal.
GAS the great department store ov-
ershadows and finely swallows up the
small shop, SO the metropolitan news
paper overshadows steals away the
business, and finally exterminates the
small country daily. Every year the
cost of publishing wide awake, pro-
| gressive, up to date newspaper in
creases enormously, and in recent
years the price to readers has been
reduced until it is merely nominal.
| Nothing on earth that costs SO much
is sold for SO little as the paper you
buy for one or two cents. The ex-
pense is mainly met by advertising
receipts. advertising rates depend
upon circulation, and as a rule the
number of advertisers depends large
ly upon the population of the place Of
p utilization. A large circulation in a
small place is out of the question es-
pecially if, as is generally the fact,
the place is reached by competing
sheets printed in the great centers.
In word, it is practically impossible
to make first class daily paper pay
in the smaller cities and towns in
New Hampshire.
~ To ho
weeklies, which are devoted to the
local affairs of the communities they
represent. They have the field to
themselves. The news they print,
while interesting to their readers
who have personal acquaintance
with the people to whom such news
relates, is not of great Importance or
interest to strangers, and is therefore
not furnished by the city journals.
There are too many of these week
lies. We can name town after town
which has two, when one would be
better, because one would be well supe
ported, while two can barely MAIN
tain an existence; but what patron
age there is in their fields the local
weeklies have, safe from outside COM
petition. Their news is exclusive.
Their comments on local persons and
things are peculiar to them. No great
daily can begin to supply what they
give their patrons, and however
many dailies and magazines one may
take, his list is not complete until it
includes the weekly published at his
village home, or near the place ofshis
birth and early associations. a. These
weeklies do a great work for their
localities. Oftentimes they are not
appreciated and the labor and skill
necessary to produce them has scant
rewards, but they live and strive con-
tinually to promote the prosperity
and defend the reputation of the Sec
tions where they are printed. Bel
loaUs Falls Times.
The methods which the Spanish
government is following here towards
the Cuban junta, of continually hav
ing its members arrested for shipping
arms to Cuba, if none of these people
are convicted, will be very injurious
to the Cuban cause as it will deplete
their treasury more than anything
else When one of their number is
arrested about the only way to set
him at liberty is to take the money
which they have raised to buy arms
and ammunition for the Cubans and
bail the arrested man out, as it is very
necessary that all of their more &C
tive friends shall be at liberty to help
the cause along as much as possible
and it is hard to find any moneyed
man who will go bail for man in the
position of these parties who are in
this business, and this usage of their
mo ney so ties it up that it is Of no
futher use. AS it to this country that
the Insurgents have to look for most
of their material and money for car
rying on the war, it is necessary that
they receive some benefit from it in
some other way than in bailing out
their m en- arrested on charge trump
ed up by Spanish officials.
State News items.