Year: 1863

The value Of the home press is not
adeq uately realized. Because metro
politan papers can furnish more read
ing matter at cheaper rate than it
is possible for the country press to do,
they are bountifully patropized and
home papers left to languish. Let
us call attention to few facts:


Home papers sustain the business
and local enterprises of their respec-
tive districts. They give character
to the counties which sustain them.
They induce the settlement of men
of means and secure investments
which could not be had but for the
information and recommendations of
the press. They stimulate business
by the communications they keep up
between men of business. Their Of
fciency in this respect depends much
on the lihnrolit,, -."i.h "hIcn meu
Of business avail themselves OF their
advertising columns.


The home press is the only ade-
quate medium of local news. Much
of the interests Of the city press is
borrowed from the columns Of the
unpretending and unhonored country
press. We let the country and the
world know every week, items as full
of interest as any which appear in
city papers. We have eur little
world to live and act in, which is en-
titled to maintain it's individuality
among the other little worlds around
us. Every little while Cincinnati
and New York papers give us ser
mons Of city divines, until some peo-
pie have got to think there are no
preachers outside of cities. Some
times country papers also furnish tho
same. Why should not our minis
ters, authors, politicians, and ether
public men, receive the notice to
which their talent and merit eutitle
them? This is only single instance
Of the uses Of the local press in the
securing due recognition and respect
for home merit. What agency is
is the equal Of the press in prompt
ing religious, charitable and other
public undertakings? 1t ought to
be noted here that this service is al
ways done gratuitously.


The home press keeps a watchful
eye over the financial interests OF the
public. 1t sees that mismanagement
waste and fraud do not squander the
country, township and school reve-
nues. 1t affords medium for re-
buke of wrong in this direction that
cannot be spared.


The country press is the most effi-
cient promoter Of political success,
to the party which most faithfully
employs it. Metropolitan papers
may excel their humber brethren Of
the country in framing long and bea-
Wy arguments for their cause, but
they cannot do the duty of scouts
and skirmishers, however we'll they
may do to lead the van Of the army.
The local press is on the ground,
meeting every peculiar and local con.
tingcncy, animatiug its friends and
securing among them unity, prompt
ness and coherency Of action. They
call out the masses to conventions,
they secure attendance on township
and county meetings, they DC the
work of organization and drill, or
the work goes undone. The metro
politan press cannot do this work
They may do the wind work, but
without the effective work Of the To-
cal press, all their wind work does
nothing. Political respectability and
success depends On numbers, and to
get them we must meet them where
they live. Any party who prefers
the city to the country press, SO as to
allow the latter to languish, is pro-
noting its own discontinue.


We therefore say to all, support
your home papers. Use them, and
use them we'll.


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