The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-05-01
ANNOUNCEMENT
From Thursdays Daily Gazette.

From Thursdays Daily Gazette.
With this issue The Gazette will
cease publication as a daily newspa
per and will hereafter appear only
twice a week. It is not without re
gret that this announcement is made
but faithful endeavor to continue IL
the daily field has met with success
SO discouraging that further effort in
the anne direction would be useless.
For almost three years The Gazette
sought to maintain a daily issue and
during that time has tried honestly
and hard to give the people of Bill
ings and surroundings a f%irstclass, re-
liable, modern newspaper; giving
them the news of the day, hoping and
believing that it's efforts would meet
with the appreciation and support
which it had every reason to expect.
That support has not been accorded
and now sorrowfully it must be adj
mitted that where success was antici-
pated failure has followed The rea-
son for this can be stated briefly
while contributing to the extent of it's
power toward the upbuilding and adj
vancement of the community itself, it
has been compelled to see those
whose interests are in COMMON give
support and encouragement to those
whose interests are elsewhere and
withholding it from where it belonged.
1t is not a pleasant admission to make,
but it is the truth, nevertheless. For
*eign publications with unlimited cap
ital behind them and whose existence
is not in response to a desire to en-
gage in legitimate competition in a
field already well represented, but
which have been established for the
purpose of furthering political and
other aspirations supposedly best sub
served by the possession of newspa-
pers devoted exclusively to the ex-
ploitation OF those interests have in
vaded territory hitherto regarded as
the possession Of the local press.
Fault is not found because of this,
but when advantage is taken of the
limitless wealth behind such publica-
tions to crush competition and n
c~ouragement is given by those whose
homes are in the community SO invad-
ed, the belief of necessity, forces it.
self upon the home publisher that
those whose interests are supposedly
the same as his W prefer that out
siders should thrive and prosper rath-
er than he.
Not only have these outside publi-
cations been accorded liberal patron
age at the expense of the home news
papers SO far as subscribing to them
is concerned, but in every other way
possible have they been patronized-
by advertising in them and giving
them job work-thereby sending away
thousands of dollars annually that a
feeling of communal loyalty and a
spirit of neighborly reciprocity de-
mand should be expended at home.
For the good it does the city all this
money has been lost and is being lost
continually. None of those benefited
by it's. expenditure is a contributor to
the c~ommunity's welfare or progress.
The payrolls they maintain, the taxes
they pay and the other expenses in
Cured in the publication of a newspa-
per are all elsewhere. None of the
money they take away is returned and
none finds it's way back into the chan
nels from which it is diverted. 1t is
4 dead loss so far as those who con-
it are concerned. Not SO is
this the case with the money that
goes to the home publisher. In one
way or another every dollar he re-
ceives is returned and ultimately
again into the sources
whence it originated. Continued
prosperity and a plethora of the cir
culating medium seem to have render
ed many Indifferent to this fact and
they continue their patronage of the
AS it has always been in the past,
so will The Gazette continue in the
to be stanchly and loyalty re-
publican and to the best of it's en-
deayor support the policies of the par
" that it believes has ever given the
state and nation the ablest govern
ment and under whose administra-
lions both have been the most success
tul and prosperous. While it consid-
srs that it has not always received
he support and encouragement from