Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-04-23
COMPETITION AND STUPIDITY.

When competition forces some folks out
of old beaten paths of half century and
they do something that lifts them trlfie
out of ancient ruts, they never tire boast
ing about it. Like child with new
suit-never grow weary admiring them
selves. And this is enterprise. Any very
rich fellow with plenty of Doodle can
make show of wonderful progress by
paying high for all he gets; but it's the
common, every day plodder, who has no
bank account worth mentioning in com,
parison with his opulent competitor; but
accomplishes as much at one. sixth the
cost incurred by the other fellow, who
displays what we call enterprise. A pa
per that pays four cents for special tele-
grams is not "up to snuff" 1t may be
quite "enterprisng :" but it is also quite
stupid.-Rock Hill Herald.
We take it that the foregoing paragraph
has reference to THE ENQUIRER, and as
nine out of ten of the newspaper readers
of York county will understand it the
same way, we will take occasion to base
few remarks upon it.
The occasion of our esteemed contem-
porary's somewhat ungenerous pique is
the move of THE ENQUIRER in bringing
it's news square up to date by liberal use
of the telegraph. But really we do not
think The Herald should blame US for
this. We foresaw that in times like those
now upon us that unless we should supply
the natural demand for the freshest news,
we would presently find the daily papers
encroaching largely upon field to which
we have to look for support. We have
always appreciated that newspaper is
strictly business enterprise. We recog-
nize that, as a rule, intelligent people, III
subscribing for nt wspapers, usually in
vest where they can get most for their
money. We think they are eminently
right, and for that reason we see to it that
THE ENQUIRER is best. If it is incon-
venient for our esteemed contemporary,
The Herald, to get out of the beaten path,
we are sorry; but we can't help it other
wise.
Again, we would not have referred to the
matter had our esteemed contemporary
not done so hut however much we would
like to be rich, we cannot help being
stupid. Up to a few years ago, we were
pretty well fixed but one night mistor-
tune came along, the accumulation OF
lifetime went up in ashes, there was no
insurance, and we were flat on our backs.
Our friend will remember that we did not
stay there any longer than we could help.
Had we been in the shape some people
had previously represented us to be, and
are still representing us to be, we would
not have undertaken to make Il new start.
We would have left the whole thing right
where it was. But it happened that it
was then lust as it is now. We had more
paid subscribers than all the papers pub
lished i'm York county put together. So
we went to work again, and to this day,
every dollar that could be spared from
our debts, has gone to make THE En-
oUIRER better and better Our debt has
not been entirely wiped out but it is in
easy control we thank you, and TIE En-
QUIRER-but doesn't she get there BROTH
er?
Then again, we are not paying -four
cents Il word for news. We never said
we paid that We said we paid three
cents, and we will tell how it was 1t
was sometime back, il will be remember
ed. We considered it desirable to get the
latest war news by telegraph. At that
time none of the county papers had left
the "old beaten path," and we had to do
some exploring. y letter to an editorial
friend on big daily in one Of the large