Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-11-06
THE MORNING GRAPHIC.

Since the suspension of the Morning
 Jews, the management of the Adams
 Printing Co. has been solicited to con- vert the Graphic into a morning daily. That there is not room in Pine Bluff for three newspapers is again demon strated by the suspension of the Morning News, but that there is some demand for morning paper in Pine Bluff cannot be denied. When the Daily Graphic was first started it was the intention of the management to make the Graphic morning daily as soon as the city should be large enough to support a morning newspa- per, as a morning paper is much more expensive than an afternoon publica- tion. Whether Pine Bluff has yet at tained sufficient white population to support a morning paper with only one afternoon newspaper in the field has to be demonstrated. In order to thoroughly test this matter and re- lieve the pressure of a crowded after noon field, the Daily Graphic will on Sunday morning, January 5, be con- verted into a morning newspaper.
 In the meantime, our canvassers will call upon merchants and the pub lie generally for both advertising and subscription contracts, and we hope to have enough business subscribed in this manner to cover the additional cost of the enterprise.
 The Graphic will therefore put the matter of a morning newspaper up to the people. The raphic is always ready to serve the public in the best possible, but the Graphic is not a philanthropic or eleemosynary institution. It is a business enterprise organized and incorporated under the laws of Arkansas, and as such will conduct it's affairs according to the patronage bestowed upon it.
 The above is taken from yesterdays afternoon Graphic. The Commercial feels justified ill the belief that what was said by our afternoon contempo- rary was most graciously received not only by subscribers of Pine Bluff but especially so to all the business public of our little city
 The newspaper is 9. legitimate and
 4 - aa,,or,t,,,o,,. ,Rdn-4ol and every city should feel proud of their stable daily press; provided, there is constancy about 1t that warrants the public in believing that there is a permanency to be maintained. The people Of Pine Bluff and this section have so often been deiuded, not to say duped and deceived by the starting of morning (and sometimes afternoon) with the most forceful statements accompanying each effort that we are here to stay, and watch us grow" and other irrespon- sible phrases, sometimes said inB i'm aginary seriousness but oftener, no doubt, with view of either trying to be sarcastic with their contemporaries or else to take, in some degree, the advantage of the credulOus and here totore ususpecting business interests of our commercial community, that they are naturally disgusted.
 It is not the purpose of the Com mercial to hold up to the mirror or in any way to personally show acrimony toward any of the persons who have in the past forty years, off and on, failed in this business; many men have suddenly gone into the field of journalism and as abruptly quit. The trouble with them has been a lack of experience as well as capital, rath- CT than a disposition to wrong. But the failures in the past six or seven years have made, or should make, this city understand that an over plus of daily newspapers is detrimen- tai to all-papers and people, for this business is entirely different from any other. For example, every time new paper is started the Senrous-hearted people of Pine Bluff feel that they should lend the new beginners helping hand AS a charitable act this is, in measure commendable; but, On the other hand, when they do this in small city they are greatly weak ening the old and reliable papers who have struggled for years to give to the public creditable newspapers and who feel the loss immensely when the pat ronage is taken away from them, by the business community, and greatly discourages them in trying to still further improve and beautify their plants and their journals. And so, while bestowing their patronage to a Morning or an Afternoon paper-a new but brief constellation in the